The Portland Cement Association filed legal briefs with the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals addressing the cement industry’s challenge to the portland cement national emission standard for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP).
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Cement plants to spend $2.6 billion/year for pollution control over the next three years
The new cement hazardous air pollution rules will boost the market for air pollution control in the U.S. But the infrastructure growth in the developing world will have a great impact on the market. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company (www.mcilvainecompany.com) by aggregating the projections in five of its online market reports.
Read MoreIntermodal transit facility achieves sustainable goals with Lafarge’s NewCem slag cement
Going beyond what is typically addressed in green building, innovative Oregon transportation hub designed to achieve high-efficiency operations, low-impact construction.
Read MoreIndustry applauds committee passage of Cement Relief Act
Source: Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Ill. The recent committee passage of Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act of 2011 (H.R. 2681) by the House Energy and Commerce Committee illustrates the importance of putting in place regulations that protect American lives and American jobs, according to PCA. The bill next moves on for consideration by the full House, planned for the week…
Read MoreHolcim’s Akermann to retire; former steel chief named new CEO
Source: Holcim Ltd, Zurich, Switzerland Holcim’s long-serving Chief Executive Markus Akermann, who has been working for the company since 1978 and has been CEO since 2002, announced he would retire in early 2012, and while his retirement came as no surpirse, the choice for his replacement was to many in the industry. The company named French stainless steel producer Aperam…
Read MoreCemex gets approval for Fairborn quarry expansion
Source: WDTN.com According to reports in the local Ohio media, Cemex USA’s Fairborn plant in Xenia was given the green light for its quarry expansion request. The Xenia Township zoning board allowed the company to rezone 290 acres of land for mining, despite pleas from dozens of residents who spoke out against the expansion during a hearing at Central State…
Read MoreMIT researchers take a life-cycle approach to real costs, environment impacts of infrastructure
Source: Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Ill. In August, the Concrete Sustainability Hub at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) released two studies looking at the life cycle assessment (LCA) of concrete pavements and buildings. A third assessment looked at life-cycling costing for streets and highways.
Read MoreGarnaud named Vice Chair of PCA
Source: Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Ill. At PCA’s recent Fall Committee Meetings, the Board of Directors elected Sylvain Garnaud, president of Lafarge North America, as vice chair of the Board of Directors. Garnaud has served as a member of PCA’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors since 2008, when he was named president of Lafarge North America’s cement division.
Read MorePCA testifies proposed ‘Cement Relief’ legislation would save thousands of jobs
Source: Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Ill. Testifying in Washington, D.C., this week before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Dan Harrington, president and CEO of Lehigh Hanson, Inc., and former PCA chair, stressed to Congress that inaction on onerous EPA regulations will result in the direct loss of 4,000 high-paying manufacturing jobs and have an adverse impact on…
Read MoreLafarge, Tarmac merger referred to Competition Commission
Source: Builders Merchants Journal, United Kingdom The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has referred a proposed UK construction materials joint venture between Tarmac UK parent company Anglo American and Lafarge to the Competition Commission. The parties propose to establish a 50-50 joint venture to which each of them would contribute the bulk of their construction materials businesses in the United…
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