Sources: Holcim (US) Inc., Chicago; CP staff Holcim (US) subsidiary Geocycle LLC has entered a multi-year contract with Louisville Gas and Electric (LG&E) Co. and Kentucky Utilities (KU) to process and market fly ash from their Mill Creek, Ghent and Trimble County generating stations. It calls for annual volume of 175,000 to 250,000 tons of concrete-grade ash, delivered by truck,…
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Chaney Enterprises extends north in Holcim ready mixed plant deal
Sources: Chaney Enterprises, Gambrills, Md.; CP staff Chaney Enterprises has acquired the assets of a Holcim US ready mixed concrete plant in Joppatowne, Md. and retained front line employees. The location stretches the producer’s service market up the Interstate 95 corridor north of Baltimore. It also coincides with a Virginia market expansion, which has seen Chaney Enterprises acquire three ready mixed…
Read MoreHolcim, Baker, Amazon craft carbon-wise, data center concrete schedules
Sources: Holcim US, Chicago; CP staff Amazon Web Services has approved Holcim ECOPact concrete mixes for a series of northern Virginia data centers in which Baker Concrete Construction or HITT Contracting will perform slab and structural work. The specification abides a new AWS standard for such facilities built in the U.S., whereby mix designs’ embodied carbon metrics are at least…
Read MoreHolcim brings Lattimore, sister Texas brands under corporate banner
Sources: Holcim US, Chicago; CP staff Holcim US will unite its Texas brands—Lattimore Materials, Tarrant Concrete, Colorado River Concrete—under the Holcim banner, alongside the producer’s Midlothian cement plant south of the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex. The regional rebrand will advance “big ideas and innovations to build progress for people in the Lone Star State,” yet maintain the existing teams and products…
Read MoreHolcim to put electric powertrains to the test in South Central fleet
Sources: CP staff; Holcim US, Chicago; Hyliion Holdings Corp., Austin, Texas Holcim US has spec’ed Hyliion Hypertruck ERX electric powertrains for 10 trucks serving Texas and Oklahoma cement and concrete operations, plus sister roofing product businesses. Batteries powering the Hypertruck ERX draw from an onboard generator running on compressed natural gas (CNG) or renewable natural gas (RNG), consumption of which…
Read MoreHolcim extends Louisiana presence with Cajun Ready Mix deal
Sources: Holcim Ltd., Zug, Switzerland; CP staff Holcim has acquired Cajun Ready Mix Concrete, which leads the Baton Rouge, La. market with eight plants and 51-mixer truck fleet. The business is strategic to Lafarge ready mixed operations in New Orleans and becomes the latest bolt-on under Holcim’s Aggregates & Construction Materials U.S. umbrella.
Read MoreGE unit, Holcim advance wind turbine pedestal base investigation
Sources: GE Renewable Energy, Paris; CP staff GE Renewable Energy has inaugurated a Bergen, N.Y. research and development facility equipped to cast up to 20-meter wind turbine base structures with outsized 3D concrete printers. It will enable a 20-member team to optimize such concrete practice with an eye to printing turbine pedestals’ bottom portions on-site, lowering material and equipment transportation…
Read MoreTop LafargeHolcim mills sustain portland limestone momentum
The Holcim (US) Ste. Genevieve plant in Missouri and Lafarge Alpena plant in Michigan have transitioned to production of OneCem portland limestone cement (PLC), lowering by 10 percent the carbon intensity of their ordinary Type I/II powder. A high-performance blended cement milled from conventional clinker and up to 10 percent finely ground, premium limestone, OneCem has been rigorously tested and…
Read MoreNational Steering Committee confirms record CIM Auction
Sources: Concrete Industry Management National Steering Committee; CP staff The National Steering Committee for the Concrete Industry Management program reports $1.74 million-plus in gross revenue from its annual auction, staged during World of Concrete 2022 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Fueling the record kitty were winning bids for an Kenworth T880-mounted Alliance boom pump; Mack Granite-mounted McNeilus mixer; Con-Tech…
Read MoreLafargeHolcim, CenterPoint enter 6 million ton ash recycling phase
LafargeHolcim and waste management subsidiary Geocycle have logged the first coal ash shipment in a multi-year initiative with CenterPoint Energy Inc. Delivered by barge via the Mississippi River, the 2,000-ton load replaces natural clay and fine aggregate as raw feeds at the Holcim (US) Ste. Genevieve mill in Missouri, North America’s largest cement operation. “This milestone is a tangible example…
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