Strong 3Q results from Vulcan boost full-year forecasts
Vulcan Materials Co has reported revenues of US$2186m in the third quarter of 2023, up from US$2088m in the same period a year earlier. Gross profit over the same timeframe has ...
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CEMEX supplies Vertua to world's 10th-largest football stadium
CEMEX has supplied its Vertua water-permeable concrete for the renovation of the University of Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Football Stadium, the 10th-largest stadium in the world and...
Milk and sugar with your cement?
Researchers in Melbourne are trialling adding coffee grounds to concrete to eliminate waste. Each year Australia produces around 83,000t of ground coffee and chaff, the majority...
Breedon Ireland reports 48% profit growth in 2022
Breedon Ireland , the Irish cement-making business of the UK-based Breedon Group , reported profit of EUR21.5m in 2022, up 48 per cent from EUR14.5m in the previous year. Revenu...
CEMEX supplies Vertua to the world's largest medical complex
CEMEX is providing more than 20,000 cubic yards of Vertua lower-carbon concrete for Houston Methodist’s Centennial Tower, the newest addition to the largest medical complex in t...
Cemento Polpaico closes two concrete plants
Chile-based Cemento Polpaico announced the closure of two concrete plants in Quilín and Renca, Metropolitan Region, as well as the temporary halt of operations at the Aconcagua ...
Titan America wins five awards at ConcreteWorks 2023
Titan America picked up five awards at the National Ready Mix Concrete Association (NRMCA)'s ConcreteWorks 2023 event held in Nashville this week. The company was recognised for...
Holcim boosts renewable energy at Fort Totten RMC plant
Holcim US has installed new solar arrays at its Fort Totten ready-mix concrete plant in Washington, DC, helping to both offset the industrial load in a major metropolitan area a...
Saint-Gobain to acquire Adfil NV
Saint-Gobain has entered into an agreement to acquire Adfil NV, a specialist in fibres for concrete reinforcement. Adfil operates two plants in Belgium and generated revenues cl...
GGBS unlikely to reduce GHG emissions, warns IStructE
The use of ground granulated blastfurnace slag (GGBS) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in concrete needs to be carefully considered, recommends a new paper from UK-based...