Sources: Eco Material Technologies, South Jordan, Utah Eco Material Technologies and Bismarck, N.D.-based Rainbow Energy Center will invest in harvesting and beneficiation plants at the utility’s Coal Creek Station, transforming impounded bottom ash materials to construction-grade fly ash and gypsum. North Dakota’s first of their kind and Eco Material’s second such investments, the plants will have projected annual yields of…
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SRM acquires Vulcan Materials’ Texas ready mixed, volumetric sites
Sources: SRM Concrete LLC, Murfreesboro, Tenn.; CP staff SRM Concrete has emerged as Texas’ largest ready mixed producer after a deal for 82 plants and 11 volumetric mixer loading sites from Vulcan Materials Co., which inherited the bulk of the properties in its 2021 U.S. Concrete Inc. takeover. The transaction is the parties’ second of the year, which opened with…
Read MoreLafarge Canada backs maturity, curing device specialist Exact Technology
Sources: Lafarge Canada Inc., Toronto; CP staff Lafarge Canada has announced an investment in Exact Technology Corp., a developer of digital concrete quality control solutions based in Toronto with Orlando, Fla. satellite office. Exact Technology offers Monitor, Match, Cure and Track hardware and software for cast-in-place or manufactured concrete, along with Sure Cure, an electric curing system suiting precast, prestressed…
Read MoreSika extends budget for higher polycarboxylate admixture output
Sources: Sika AG, Baar, Switzerland; CP staff The parent company of New Jersey-based Sika Corp. has announced further investment in polymer production capacity at its Sealy, Texas plant, the second such outlay in five years. The move will yield higher volumes of the chemical building blocks underpinning the ViscoCrete family of admixtures for self-consolidating, high slump and cement-optimized concrete mixes. …
Read MorePavement materials specialist Crafco adds Poreshield concrete coating
Sources: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.; CP staff Crafco Inc., Arizona-based packaged pavement preservation solutions provider, has acquired PoreShield, a patented, soy-based protectant that extends concrete service life. The agent was created through a research collaboration among Purdue University, the Indiana Soybean Alliance (ISA) and Indiana Department of Transportation, funded by soybean checkoff dollars. PoreShield’s key ingredient is soy methyl…
Read MoreMartin Marietta moves on from TXI assets in CRH Americas deal
Sources: Martin Marietta Materials Inc., Raleigh, N.C.; CRH Plc, Dublin; CP staff CRH Americas Materials will add more than 2 million tons and 1.5 million cubic yards of annual cement production capacity and ready mixed concrete volume under a Texas asset agreement with Martin Marietta Materials. The producers anticipate a Q1/Q2 2024 closing on the $2.1 billion deal, which spans…
Read MoreEnergy Vault’s concrete behemoth anchors world first in power storage
Sources: Energy Vault Holdings Inc., Lugano, Switzerland; CP staff Grid-scale solutions developer Energy Vault Holdings is nearing completion of an inordinate lattice- and cage-like structure destined to rank among top long duration energy storage systems deployed to date. Rising on a site adjacent to a wind farm in Rudong, China, the reinforced concrete behemoth bears the world’s first EVx Gravity…
Read MoreAdvanced Tech Crete seeks patent for Binder Reducing Formula
Sources: Advanced Tech Crete LLC, Houston; CP staff Advanced Tech Crete has completed United States Patent Office filings for Binder Reducing Formula (BRF), a liquid agent whose dispersing qualities and nano-particles have the potential to reduce portland cement volumes in concrete mix designs, while streamlining admixture and binder requirements. Dubbed “The New Science of Concrete,” BRF is added to a…
Read MoreSoftware developer brings concrete delivery optimization into AI age
The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association 2023 ConcreteWorks Conference in Nashville was the backdrop for broad roll out of Inform Transport Planning and Execution software for concrete, aggregates and cement. The logistics platform equips dispatchers and planners running medium to large fleets to perform complex, time-critical calculations with ease—netting delivery of more loads with fewer trucks when measured against conventional…
Read MoreNCP Industries adopts CaptureCrete agent for carbon-absorbing veneer stone
Sources: Carbon Limit, Boca Raton, Fla.; NCP Industries, Neb.; CP staff NCP Industries has turned to Carbon Limit’s CaptureCrete admixture for eCO2LUXE, a precast veneer stone announced at the 2023 Deck Expo in Las Vegas. Packaged in supersacks and dosed by cement weight, CaptureCrete is formulated from minerals that are highly reactive to atmospheric carbon dioxide and capable of permanently…
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