Lokotrack's GCC screen debut Premium
The need for a clean cement additive at Grupo Cementos Chihuahua (GCC)’s Rio Grande plant, USA, resulted in the installation of a new Metso Lokotrack ST2.8 screen. Thanks to its...
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USA: post-election uncertainty lowers consumption forecast
The Portland Cement Association (PCA) has lowered its annual growth estimate for 2016 cement consumption from four per cent to 2.7 per cent. It also revised its 2017 US consumpt...
USA: scientists develop programmable cement
Scientists at Rice University, Texas, USA, have decoded the kinetic properties of cement and developed a way to "program" the microscopic, semi-crystalline particles within.
Argos becomes the fourth largest US cement producer
Cementos Argos is now the fourth largest cement plant in the United States after the Federal Trade Commission approved the acquisition of the 2.2Mta Martinsburg cement plant and...
USA: Elementia acquires 55% stake in Giant Cement
Elementia, SAB de CV has announced that its Board of Directors has given its final approval for the completion of the acquisition of a 55 per cent stake and full control of Gian...
LafargeHolcim: Hagerstown rejuvenated Premium
International Cement Review invited Pascal Casanova, LafargeHolcim’s regional director for North America and Mexico, and John Stull, CEO , US Cement, LafargeHolcim, to comment o...
USA: Orcem receives backlash over new plant
Orcem America has said it wants to set up operations in Vallejo, California, opposite the Mare Island peninsula. Under Orcem’s proposal, slag would be brought in from Asia via t...
Ecocem's turnover rises despite US problems
Ecocem's group turnover totalled EUR63.7m last year, up from EUR61m in the prior year as the company’s operating profit jumped to EUR2.6m from EUR1.5m.
USA: preliminary September cement shipments total 8.78Mt
Preliminary data published by the US Geological Survey (USGS) concerning US shipments of cement in September 2016 estimates that Portland and blended cement consumption fell to ...
GCC acquires multiple Cemex operations
GCC has announced the acquisition of multiple Cemex operations in the USA.