Holcim orders IKN Pendulum Cooler for Argentinian plant
The cooler is designed to replace the existing drum cooler at Puesto Viejo, Argentina.
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The cooler is designed to replace the existing drum cooler at Puesto Viejo, Argentina.
A new partnership helps to increase cargo handling specialist CargoFlexX’s network in Singapore, while in North America the Lake Carriers’ Association reports a decline in limestone shipments.
ACI student fellowship and scholarship application process opens; 1Q14 US construction materials output; new office construction forecast for New York.
CeraTech has signed up for the challenge organised by Architecture 2030, which will see it target embodied carbon-equivalent footprint reduction goals.
Dispatches of Portland cement, including exports, increased by 2.6% m/m in May 2014 in Argentina, but contracted by 8.5% y/y.
The US National Ready Mixed Concrete Associations seeks proposals for the 2015 conference in Miami, Florida.
According to reports, Holcim US Inc. is planning to invest some US$100 million in the modernisation of its Ada plant in Oklahoma.
Paraguay’s INC will receive some US$67 million from the country’s government, which it will invest into modernisation projects.
According to preliminary estimates from SNIC, domestic cement sales dropped 0.7% y/y in Brazil in May but grew by 2.8% y/y in January – May 2014.
Cemex Mexico has received awards under the Greenhouse Gas Effect Programme for its coprocessing system and the reduction and management of GHG emissions.
Carolinas Cement Company, a subsidiary of Titan America, has announced plans to establish a packaging facility at an existing cement storage and distribution terminal in New Hanover County.
The Canadian government will regulate industrial air pollutant emissions through the Multi-Sector Air Pollutants Regulations, the first phase of which will include the cement industry, industrial boilers and heaters and stationary engines.