Tag: cement
Circular economy of cement could be worth €110 billion by 2050, McKinsey & Company...
A circular economy of concrete and cement could produce €110 billion in net value and avoid or mitigate two billion tons of...
GCC Announces Dividend Payment and Share Buyback Program Reactivation
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GCC, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: GCC* or, "the Company”), a leading producer of cement and concrete in the United States and...
CEMEX INVESTS IN TECH THAT REDUCES CARBON EMISSIONS IN CEMENT BY UP TO 30%
CEMEX has invested in Carbon Upcycling Technologies, a solution that enables the reduction of carbon emissions in cement and concrete production by up...
LafargeHolcim US and Legacy Brands Unite as Holcim US
Company unveils new group identity in US, bringing together some of the country’s most trusted brands in the building sector
Milestone in Holcim’s...
GCC Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Results
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GCC, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: GCC*), a leading supplier and producer of cement and concrete in the United States...
Digitization: Bringing Systems Thinking to Infrastructure Projects
By Carol Massay
The Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) recently warned that the current approach to delivering complex infrastructure projects is at risk of becoming...
UMA Scales up Production on Unusually Large Soil Nail Wall
By Brian M. Fraley
UMA Geotechnical Construction constructed all of the eight required permanent soil nail walls along a roughly two-mile stretch of the Greensboro...
Carbon Sequestration in Cement Creates Significant Environmental Advances in New Construction
By Nancy Novak
It’s not news that buildings use a lot of concrete. There are no substitutions for it, and the production of it is...
MIT students fortify concrete by adding irradiated recycled plastic
Discarded plastic bottles could one day be used to build stronger, more flexible concrete structures, from sidewalks and street barriers, to buildings and bridges, according to a new study. MIT undergraduate students have found that, by exposing plastic flakes to small, harmless doses of gamma radiation, then pulverizing the flakes into a fine powder, they can mix the plastic with cement paste to produce concrete that is up to 20 percent stronger than conventional concrete.