
McInnis Cement responds to Lafarge North America statement
McInnis Cement has provided the following statement, responding to Lafarge North America, which spoke out against the new Canadian plant last week.
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McInnis Cement has provided the following statement, responding to Lafarge North America, which spoke out against the new Canadian plant last week.

Shipments of Portland and blended cement reached 8.7 million t in the US and Puerto Rico in August 2014, according to the USGS.

According to the AFCP, cement dispatches were up 5.8% m/m but down 3.1% y/y in Argentina in October 2014.

Cemex has announced the international and Mexican winners of the XXIII Edition of the Cemex Building Award. This edition considered more than 500 buildings within Mexico and 214 buildings elsewhere in the world.

Katharine E. Morgan, currently Vice President of ASTM’s Technical Committee Operations, will succeed ASTM President James A. Thomas.

Lafarge North America ‘applauds the Office of the United States Trade Representative, which confronted Canadian trade officials about the subsidies pledged for the construction of a cement facility in Quebec’.

Revenue, gross profit and adjusted EBITDA all increased for Vulcan Materials in the quarter ending 30 September 2014.

As part of the new agreement, Wärtsilä will continue to operate and maintain the power plant at Cemex Colombia's cement manufacturing facility in Ibagué.

The Atlas Copco Group (Atlas Copco AB) has announced that it has been included in the United Nations Global Compact 100 Stock Index.

Egypt’s Arabian Cement and Brazil’s Cementos La Union are planning to establish a new 230 000 tpa cement grinding facility in Northwest Brazil.

The incremental amount raised will be applied to partially prepay the facilities agreement dated 17 September 2012 and to pay other debt.

Climate Change Adaptation Plans released by EPA coincide with the fifth anniversary of Obama’s sustainability initiative.