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…
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…
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…