Cemex launches latest ready-mix brand for sustainable building

Source: Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V., Monterrey, Mexico

Mexican construction materials giant Cemex recently launched its latest global ready-mix concrete brand, Insularis, offering a portfolio of construction solutions and products designed to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, thus intensifying the company’s commitment to bring about industry-transforming sustainable construction practices. Insularis is already being offered in Mexico and France, and the industrialization of this technology is under way in a number countries where Cemex has operations.

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NRMCA expands Technology in Practice series

Source: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Silver Spring, Md.

NRMCA has introduced three new topics—bringing the total to eight—in its Technology in Practice (TIP) series of information sheets for industry personnel to educate themselves on general quality control/quality assurance and technical topics. The introduction is part of a broad quality initiative headed by NRMCA’s Research Engineering and Standards (RES) Committee which created the TIP series.

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