Sources: Solidia Technologies, San Antonio, Texas; CP staff Solidia Technologies has enlisted Michigan-based Pathfinder Systems to deliver a customized Tiger Machine model for a dry-cast concrete production facility under construction at Alamo Junction in Elmendorf, Texas. Scheduled for a Q3 2024 start up, the operation will bring to commercial scale Solidia material and process developments in carbon dioxide utilization and…
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Fatal prestressed pile incident draws $59K OSHA penalty
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor; CP staff The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Miami heavy/civil contractor de Moya Group Inc. for four serious violations tied to a December 2022 accident on an Interstate 95 site, where a 90-ft., 18-in. square prestressed concrete pile—hoisted by a crane encountering unstable soil—struck an aerial lift boom. The impact sent two carpenters…
Read MoreCommercial Metals adds specialty cage, hardware line through EDSCO
Sources: Commercial Metals Co., Irving, Texas; CP staff Concrete reinforcing steel market leader Commercial Metals has acquired Denton, Texas-based EDSCO Fasteners LLC from MiddleGround Capital, a private equity firm with New York and Kentucky offices. EDSCO custom engineers anchor cages, bolts, and fasteners to secure high voltage electrical transmission poles to concrete foundations. As the top source of such cages,…
Read MoreInvestors turbocharge CarbonCure concrete, CO2 management pursuits
Sources: CarbonCure Technologies, Halifax, Nova Scotia; CP staff A major investment by Blue Earth Capital of Switzerland, concurrent with a broader collaborative funding round north of $80 million, positions CarbonCure Technologies to accelerate a plant process and information technology roadmap driving carbon dioxide utilization and sequestration in concrete. The capital infusion was announced days after CarbonCure surpassed 750 CO2 metering and…
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