Holcim Ltd. Country CEO, Mexico Jaime Hill has been appointed region head North America, gaining responsibility for the Holcim US and Lafarge Canada businesses and succeeding Toufic Tabbara. Hill joined Holcim in 1996 and has 30-plus years of experience spanning finance, sales and marketing leadership roles in the U.S. and Latin America. Management credits his track record of profitable growth,…
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Lehigh Cement transitions top mill, Union Bridge, to EcoCemPLC
Sources: Lehigh Hanson Inc., Irving, Texas; CP staff The Lehigh Cement plant in Union Bridge, Md. will see primary output shift from ordinary portland cement to the branded EcoCem Portland-Limestone Cement—clinker + up to 10 percent finely graded limestone—by no later than January 2023. Union Bridge is presently the producer’s largest plant in North America; the switch to the branded…
Read MoreLehigh Cement grinds clinker, limestone and ash to High Sulphate blend
Sources: Lehigh Hanson, Irving, Texas; CP staff Lehigh Hanson is extending its recently launched, carbon-wise EcoCem portland limestone cement series with EcoCem PLUS, milled at the Edmonton plant and debuting in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Finished by inter-grinding cement clinker, fly ash, limestone and gypsum, the material outperforms traditional CSA Group-grade HS powder in resisting sulphate attack—common in the Prairie…
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