
World Cement Association to discuss future of the industry at annual conference
The World Cement Association has announced the topics for this year’s WCA World Cement Conference, which will take place in London on 5 December.
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The World Cement Association has announced the topics for this year’s WCA World Cement Conference, which will take place in London on 5 December.

ABB recently won an order to provide additional integrated digital automation and electrical equipment for Tan Thang Cement Joint Stock Company’s greenfield cement plant in Vietnam.

A study by the Swedish research institute RISE has concluded that the carbon footprint of paper cement sacks is 2.5 times smaller than the carbon footprint of form-fill-seal (FFS) polyethylene cement sacks.

The switchgear is intended to bolster advantages in safety and reliability for critical power applications in data centres, oil and gas, mining, process industries, and other commercial and industrial applications.

San Miguel Northern Cement Incorporated has chosen technology from Loesche for its new 5000 tpd production line at the Sison site in the province of Pangasinan, the Philippines.

Ambuja Cements has moved two notches up to 5th place globally in the Construction Material category of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index - 2018.

Vortex Global Ltd, a solids and bulk handling components company, has appointed ALRIAD International Agencies & Trading as its new representative agent for Egypt.

The flyash was produced by a coal-fuelled generating station in the 1980s and 1990s, with the material stored in a covered dry stack on a 30-acre site.

CEMEX has supplied concrete, including special mixes of hyper-fluid and high-strength concrete, for the construction of L’Arbre Blanc in Montpellier, France.

CEMEX USA has closed on the purchase of a turnkey, fully-operational aggregates quarry in Chico, Texas, from Blue Star Materials II, LLC.

Three of the company’s manufacturing facilities in the US have earned 2018 ENERGY STAR certifications from the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Oldcastle Infrastructure has acquired Concrete Specialties, Inc., a manufacturer of precast concrete products that is headquartered in the Chicago metro area.