Lafarge Canada drives circular economy via CarbiCrete partnership

Sources: Lafarge Canada Inc., Montreal Lafarge Canada has teamed with CarbiCrete, Quebec-based concrete binding agent and curing method developer, to process steelmaking byproduct at its St. Constant – Montreal East manufacturing cluster and extend the latter company’s market prospects. CarbiCrete technology enables the conversion of formerly sub-grade, often landfill-bound steel slag to cementitious material with binding capacity affording full portland…

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Sika AG takes stake in concrete flooring specialist, keen on global prospects

Sources: Sika AG, Baar, Switzerland; CP staff The parent company of Sika Corp. has acquired a 30 percent interest in Concria Oy, a Finnish startup whose Optimal Slab concrete floor installation and polishing technology offers a wide range of advantages to contractors, architects, and industrial or commercial property owners. The firm’s novel approach to decorative or performance slabs includes special…

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Buzzi Unicem’s Toso, Ash Grove East’s Manolas lead PCA officer slate

Sources: Portland Cement Association, Washington, D.C.; CP staff Portland Cement Association members have elected Buzzi Unicem USA CEO Massimo Toso as board chairman and Ash Grove Cement East President Monica Manolas as vice chair, both for two-year terms. Toso succeeds Votorantim Cimentos North America CEO Filiberto Ruiz, who took the helm shortly after the October 2021 release of the PCA…

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Eagle Materials secures rights to three 240K-tpy Terra CO2 SCM plants

Sources: Eagle Materials Inc., Dallas; Terra CO2 Technology, Golden, Colo.; CP staff Eagle Materials has entered an agreement granting exclusive right to build and operate three facilities processing up to 240,000 tons per year of Terra CO2’s supplementary cementitious material, Opus SCM, from common quarry byproducts or other silicate-rich feeds. The facilities would be earmarked for specific geographic areas. They…

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“EPD on Demand” tool equips aggregate producers for Buy Clean 

Sources: WAP Sustainability, Nashville; CP staff Life cycle assessment and environmental product declaration services provider WAP Sustainability has launched Theta EPD for Aggregates with National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association support. The first tool of its kind programmed specifically for North American producers, Theta Aggregate builds on WAP’s expertise in LCA and EPD generation software for ready mixed concrete, concrete…

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Cemex global mixer fleet sustains CO2 emissions descent

Sources: Cemex S.A.B. de C.V., Monterrey, Mexico; CP staff The parent company of Cemex USA reports enterprise-wide deployment of 1,000-plus concrete mixer trucks running on lower carbon alternatives to conventional diesel fuel, including petro-free renewable diesel, compressed natural gas and battery electric power. Heavy-duty truck investments over the last two years have resulted in a carbon dioxide emissions reduction of…

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ACPA finalizes 2024 Pipe School and Pipe Show agenda

Source: American Concrete Pipe Association, Irving, Texas The American Concrete Pipe Association has opened registration for its largest annual gathering, the Pipe School and Pipe Show. Next year’s edition runs January 29-February 1 at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Convention Center in Frisco, Texas. True to a “Engineered Strength. Proven Resilience. Undeniable Sustainability” theme, it will feature a dynamic keynote…

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AltusGroup: 35 million square feet of precast wall panels in 20 years

Sources: AltusGroup, Bethlehem, Pa.; CP staff Embracing “precast innovation powered by collaboration” has positioned carbon fiber reinforced element licensor AltusGroup and producer members to sustain momentum in developing advanced commercial building enclosure solutions. “In the two decades since our founding, we’ve seen a deepened focus on energy savings, carbon footprint mitigation and on-site labor reductions, all amid an enhanced desire…

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FHWA states case for portland limestone cement specifications

Sources: Federal Highway Administration; National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Alexandria, Va.: CP staff The Federal Highway Administration’s new TechNote on Portland Limestone Cement (FHWA-HRT-23-104) provides state highway agencies, contractors and concrete practitioners information enabling broader adoption of a blended binder to which cement plants across North America are migrating. The 12-page document reviews the history of PLC in the U.S.;…

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Eco Material envisions 10M tons from 25-year Dakota ash harvest

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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