A new Calgary plant enables Euclid Chemical Co. to expedite concrete admixture deliveries to customers in western Canada, who have been primarily serviced by the company’s Mt. Vernon, Wash. operation. Along with efficient Euclid Canada tanker loading, the 34,000-sq.-ft. facility’s advanced mixing, batching and bulk dispensing technology provides accurate and consistent dosing of admixture ingredients. Positioned in a prime location…
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Low carbon LC3 binder steers Sika’s next admixture chapter
The Swiss parent company of New Jersey-based Sika Corp. will tailor a new family of concrete admixtures and cement additives around the chemistry and behavior of an emerging binder known as LC3, or Limestone Calcined Clay Cement. Through work with Sika AG and peers, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology officials view the material as a means of carbon footprint reduction…
Read MoreParent company maps Grace Construction Products’ independent future
Directors have approved a plan to separate Columbia, Md.-based W.R. Grace & Co. into two independent, publicly traded companies, each with interim designations: New GCP, spanning concrete admixtures- and cement additives-anchored Grace Construction Products, and New Grace, comprised of petroleum and chemical processing-driven Catalysts and Materials Technologies.
Parent company maps Grace Construction Products’ independent future
Sources: W.R. Grace & Co., Columbia, Md., CP Staff
Directors have approved a plan to separate Grace into two independent, publicly traded companies, each with interim designations: New GCP, spanning concrete admixtures- and cement additives-anchored Grace Construction Products, and New Grace, comprised of petroleum and chemical processing-driven Catalysts and Materials Technologies.