Sources: Euclid Chemical, Cleveland; CP staff Euclid Chemical has expanded its concrete admixture and construction chemicals portfolio with the Chryso Inc. cement grinding aid and additives business, along with related intellectual property, in North America. The business spans Conventional Grinding Aid, Strength Enhancer, Technical Additive and Chromium VI Reduction groups. The first two include agents for improving fineness characteristics and…
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Clark Pacific taps arrays on fast track to renewable energy-powered plants
Sources: Clark Pacific, West Sacramento, Calif.; CP staff A top player in West Coast precast, prestressed concrete production and related design-build work, Clark Pacific has entered a partnership with NewGen Energy that will see solar array installations meeting nearly 100 percent of electricity requirements across three California concrete operations. Enlisting the Loomis, Calif. array engineer and installation services provider in…
Read MoreStructural Group’s Emmons heads Construction Industry Round Table
Sources: Construction Industry Round Table, Washington, D.C. The Construction Industry Round Table (CIRT) elected Peter Emmons, president and CEO of Baltimore-based Structural Group Inc. and a top American Concrete Institute-recognized concrete repair authority, as 2022-23 Chair during its Annual Spring Conference in Washington, D.C. He succeeds Greg Cosko, his counterpart with Hathaway Dinwiddie, San Francisco. CIRT is comprised of approximately…
Read MoreBlair Block moves first to commercialize CarbonBuilt technology
Sources: CarbonBuilt, Los Angeles; CP staff Alabama’s Blair Block projects an early-2023 debut for low-carbon concrete masonry units produced with the CarbonBuilt Reversa carbon dioxide capture and mineralization process. Reversa deployment stands to reduce Blair Block products’ carbon footprint upward of 80 percent with no compromise on price, performance or plant operations. A production line retrofit at the producer’s Childersburg…
Read MoreOzinga RMC improves AI-generated mix designs for Meta data center
Sources: Ozinga Bros. Inc., Mokena, Ill.; CP staff Ozinga Ready Mix Concrete is assisting Meta and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) researchers on a concrete schedule for the carbon-minded social media giant’s DeKalb, Ill. data center. The producer has demonstrated the potential to build on the low carbon metrics of mix designs generated from an artificial intelligence model that…
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