Sources: Cement Association of Canada, Ottawa; CP staff
Canadian concrete and cement interests have united to advance the industry’s leadership in sustainable construction and promote the social, environmental and economic value of concrete products and building methods.
Read MoreSources: CP staff; National Labor Relations Board
NLRB Administrative Law Judge John McCarrick has ordered Operating Engineers Local 12 to cease threats and coercive actions directed at two highway contractor customers of Short Load Concrete, an Anaheim, Calif., volumetric mixer fleet.
Read MoreSources: CP staff; Command Alkon, Birmingham, Ala.
Addressing the company’s 2013 Training and Technology Conference general session, Command Alkon Chief Executive Officer Phil Ramsey projected modest growth in global software and plant equipment shipments next year, about 80 percent of gains likely stemming from North American concrete, aggregate and bulk materials producers and haulers.
Read MoreSources: CP staff; CarbonCure Technologies Inc., Halifax, Nova Scotia
In a nod to customers aligning project specs with forthcoming U.S. Green Building Council certification guidelines, Oldcastle Architectural’s business serving Chicago and upper Midwest markets has announced a Health Product Declaration (HPD) for its Trendstone Sandstone ground face concrete masonry unit.
Read MoreSources: Titan America LLC, Norfolk, Va.; CP staff
Titan America will introduce the proprietary PaveDrain system to the south Florida market later this month in a 650-sq.-ft. demonstration at Ft. Lauderdale City Hall. A Permeable Articulating Concrete Block Pavement System (P-ACB), PaveDrain is placed either in mat sections, typically 8-feet wide and up to 40-feet long, or as individual units much like conventional paving stones.
Read MoreSource: KPMG International, New York
After prolonged economic uncertainty, a majority of executives in the global engineering and construction sector are confident in industry growth prospects, according to the 2013 Global Construction Survey from tax, audit and advisory giant KPMG International.
Read MoreSources: Lafarge Group, Paris; Solidia Technologies, Piscataway, N.J.; CP staff
Lafarge has entered a partnership agreement with venture capital-backed Solidia Technologies to industrialize processes reducing carbon dioxide emissions in cement production and capturing CO2 in precast concrete curing.
Read MoreSources: Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Ill.; CP staff
With candor that marked his tenure as U.S. Transportation Secretary (February 2009–June 2013) and in Congress (1995–2009, R-IL), Ray LaHood told cement and concrete interests: “I believe that the time has come for America to say we need to be number one again, we need to fix up our bridges that are falling down, we need to fix up our roadways, and we need to raise the gas tax 10 cents per gallon.”
Read MoreSources: WL Ross & Co. LLC, New York City; CP staff
Permian Basin Materials, LLC (PBM), a newly formed affiliate of private equity firm WL Ross & Co., has acquired majority stakes in Texas’ Crockett County Mining, Ltd., Highland Concrete Co. and Wallach Concrete, Inc. WL Ross-managed funds will own 80 percent of PBM as the three business’ existing shareholders maintain a combined 20 percent stake.
Read MoreSource: ASTM International, West Conshohocken, Pa.
ASTM Subcommittee C09.45 on Roller-Compacted Concrete is working on three proposed standards: WK33682, Test Method for Preparation, Compaction and Density Determination of Roller-Compacted Concrete Specimens by Means of the Gyratory Compactor; WK41101, Practice for Molding Roller-Compacted Concrete in Beam Molds Using a Vibrating Hammer; and, WK42461, Test Method for Density (Unit Weight) and Air Content (Pressure Method) of Freshly Mixed Roller-Compacted Concrete.
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