Texas Lehigh Cement, which is a 50/50 JV between Heidelberg and Eagle Materials, will start a slag grinding unit in Huston, Texas this summer. The plant will have a production capacity of 0.5 Mta to supplement Texas Lehigh’s cement manufacturing…
US-based Sublime Systems located in Holyoke, Massachusetts, has been awarded US$87m by the US Department of Energy (DOE). The funding will be used to accelerate the construction of Sublime’s first commercial 0.03 Mta manufacturing plant in Holyoke. Sublime invented a…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $6 billion for 33 projects across more than 20 states in the USA to decarbonise energy-intensive industries and to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions. In the cement and concrete sector US$…
In the USA, in 3 weeks, start-up Fortera Corporation will open the world’s first commercial-scale CO2 mineralization plant at CalPortand’s Redding cement plant. The ReCarb® plant is inspired by nature and converts CO2 back into mineral form, to make carbon…
US Dragon Cement at Thomason in Main is transitioning its business model from cement manufacturing to distribution and storage, effective 2.Q in 2024. After announcing a year ago that its cement plant was ending production, Dragon Products Co., a subsidiary…
Geocycle and Lafarge Canada, which are part of Holcim North America, commissioned a new state-of-the-art ash processing facility in Alberta – the first of its kind within Holcim’s global operations. The facility will use advanced beneficiation technology to transform landfilled…
Heidelberg Materials is still in the selection of the technology for the CCUS project in the Edmonton cement plant in Canada. In the plant a MHI CO2 pilot capture system has been tested (we reported 18th of January). Now, Technip…
CRH Americas Materials, a subsidiary of CRH plc, has finalized its US$ 2.1 bn acquisition of Martin Marietta’s South Texas cement and related concrete operations. The deal (we reported 22.11.2023) includes the Hunter cement plant (photo) in New Braunfels, a…
US cement producer Monarch plans to build a 20 MW solar facility with Evergy Energy Solutions on Monarch’s property at 1311 Florida Road in Humboldt, Kansas. With the capacity to generate 20 MW of clean electricity, the project is designed…
In 2023, in the USA the cement dispatch declined by -3.0%, YoY, to 90.400 Mta, of which 88.0 Mta is Portland and blended cement and 2.4 Mta is masonry cement (preliminary). The cement dispatch does not include cement exports and…