The Americas

In 2016, Cemex invested US$50 million into environmental conservation measures.

Cemex is supplying a specialised concrete for the paving of ALA Transportes’ new terminal.

Cemex Aggregates as signed a ten-year lease extension to continue its aggregates import activities at Port of Redwood City.

Industry chain supplier, John King USA, has changed its name to Cobalt Chains.

Fives has produced the first clinker at the new cement production line at Cementos Fortaleza’s Tula plant in Mexico.

Cemex USA has agreed to close its controversial Lapis sand mine on California’s Monterey Bay – the last coastal sand mine in the US.

Output of construction aggregates in the US fell year-on-year in 1Q17 to 426 million t – a fall of 3%.

NovaAlgoma Cement Carriers will provide cement shipping services to Lafarge Canada via a newly convert pneumatic cement carrier under a long-term contract with the cement maker.

WEG, a manufacturer of electric motors, has supplied low- and medium-voltage motors to the Yacuses cement plant in Bolivia.

The Mexican government has awarded Geocycle the ‘Environmental Excellence 2017’ certificate.

USGS has released its Mineral Industry Survey for cement in April 2017.

One of Cemex’s US subsidiaries has closed the divestment of its Pacific Northwest Materials Business.

The Portland Cement Association has welcomed the decision by the US Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers to repeal the controversial Water of the United States rule.

HarbisonWalker International has announced a new Director, EH&S.

Martin Marietta has agreed a deal to buy aggregates supplier, Bluegrass Materials Co., for US$1.625 billion in cash.