Holcim Saint Genevieve will increase its cement capacity by 20% with installing a 5th cement grinding mill. The capacity expansion is because of an intended larger production of blended cements and other plant upgrades (ccf2up reported 21. Oct. 2023) The…
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…
Holcim is in a transformation as a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions. Cement, aggregates and concrete, the main businesses of Holcim do not totally fit into that category (photo: Alpena cement plant in Michigan). In 2022 the…
What has been announced in July this year has been completed last week. Summit Materials successfully combined their business with Argos USA for a transition of US$ 3.2 billion. In the USA, Argos has an installed cement grinding capacity of…
In the period from January to October 2023, the accumulated hydraulic cement imports (Portland and blended grey cement) of the USA declined by -1.8% to 15.678 Mt. In October the YoY decline even has been -8.4% to 1.843 Mt, after…
In the USA in the period from January to October 2023, the dispatch of Blended and Portland cement declined by -2.9% YoY to 75.086 Mt. In October the declined slightly decreased to -2.4% YoY or 8.229 Mt and 8.432 Mt…
Sublime Systems selected Holyoke in Massachusetts, USA, for their first commercial manufacturing plant to produce 0.03 Mta of a new Portland cement. Today, the company operates a 1 tpd pilot plant to develop a true-zero carbon cement, which does not…
The imports of Portland and blended cements by the USA declined in the first 3 quarters 2023 by -0.7% to 13.867 Mt, after 13.966 Mt in the same period last year. However, there is a decline from quarter to quarter…
In the USA, in the first 3 quarters of 2023 in total 66.863 Mt of Portland and blended cements have been dispatched. This is a -2.9% YoY decline compared to 68.873 Mt in the same period last year. The largest…