White House memo highlight US pledges for low-carbon cement
A White House memo reports that companies, state and local governments in the USA are making new pledges to use low-carbon cement. The commitments are from New York State, New Y...
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Fortera's low-carbon cement secures US$85m in funding
Fortera, the Silicon Valley developer of the ReCarb process, where CO 2 from cement or other industrial emissions is mineralised and converted to concrete ReAct binder agents, h...
Open Compute Project launches 'green concrete' trials with hyperscale giants
The US-based Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) has teamed up with major hyperscale companies, including Meta, Google, AWS and Microsoft, to test and promote low-embodied car...
Lower interest rates to benefit construction (USA)
Ed Sullivan, the chief economist and senior vice president of market intelligence for the Portland Cement Association (PCA), representing the USA's cement manufacturers, says th...
C-CRETE Technologies pours world’s first granite-based concrete
C-Crete Technologies (California, USA), a producer of sustainable building materials, has achieved a milestone of creating the world’s first granite-based concrete. This concret...
Taiheiyo Cement plans Indonesian exports to US
Taiheiyo Cement plans to export up to 1Mta of cement to the USA from Indonesia by expanding capacity in the southeast Asian country. It also wants to capture infrastructure-rela...
Argos Puerto Rico fined US$111,000 for 'Clean Air Act' violations
Argos Puerto Rico Corp , operator of a Portland cement plant in Dorado, has reached a settlement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following 'Clean Air Act' viol...
Eco Material Technologies releases sustainability report
Eco Material Technologies, US sustainable material supplier, has released its latest sustainability report covering the progress it has made to decarbonise the cement and concre...
Davenport plant installs FuelFlex Pyrolyzer system
Summit Materials Inc has installed FLsmidth’s FuelFlex Pyrolyzer system, which enhances the use of non-hazardous alternative fuels at its Davenport cement plant in Iowa, USA. Th...
Holcim North America's climate commitments scrutinised ahead of US$30bn US listing
Holcim North America is hiding pollution liabilities and other risks from investors as the company plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange in early 2025, warns a high profi...