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Month: November 2026

St. Marys to Ease Peak Grid Load With Rodan Battery Energy Storage System

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St. Marys Cement has entered a long-term agreement with Rodan Energy Solutions Inc. for a 50 megawatt-hour (MWh), behind-the-meter battery energy storage system (BESS) at the Bowmanville, Ontario mill outside Toronto – becoming Canada’s largest behind-the-meter BESS installation to date. Rodan Energy, based in Mississauga, Ontario, will engineer a modular system to charge during lower electricity demand intervals and power…

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Amrize-Backed Travertine Advances CO2 Capture, Precipitated CaCO3 Processing

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Travertine Technologies, a Boulder, Colo., startup that counts Amrize Ltd. and Holcim Ltd. among its investors, has confirmed the potential of converting mineralized carbon dioxide from direct air capture assemblies to a high-purity (≥ 92%), precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) with consistency and particle sizing (10-20µ, median) suiting cement blends or concrete mixes.   In a joint venture with Quebec-based Arianne…

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Sullivan: Saddle Year in 2026; Rougher Going in 2027

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USGS’s first half 2026 U.S. cement shipments data was recently released. The data showed a 5.1% gain over depressed 2025 levels. According to various cement company financial reports several factors contributed to the strong market performance, including favorable weather comparisons, large backlogs associated with infrastructure projects, and robust growth in data center and utility/power construction.  Curiously, this market strength was…

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