The Americas

For many years, the highway between the communities of Nuevo México and El Chungal suffered from decay.

The MSHA has lauded the agency and operators for the reduced number of fatalities in 2015.

The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping dry bulk including cement, ended unchanged at 354 points.

Summit has appointed Anne Wade as its new independent director.

The PCA has intervened in legal action regarding theNational Ambient Air Quality Standard.

Recent analysis predicts a moderate increase in the demand for aggregates through the years of the FAST Act.

President Obama has vetoes the bipartisan congressional resolution that formally denounced WOTUS.

Cemex was commended for its outstanding contributions to desert bighorn sheep repatriation and conservation.

The negative indicators seen at the end of 2014 were not overcome in 2015.

BIMCO expects transported volumes to diminish as they traditionally do from the fourth quarter to the first.

Shares in Mexico’s Cemex dropped by more than 8% on 20 January, punished by a record low peso exchange rate that increases its debt load.

The schedule of NSSGA’s Annual Convention and AGG1 Academy & Expo are available online.

Registration for the IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference is now available for purchase.

Total shipments of portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico in October 2015 were about 9.3 million t.

Hormicreto, Cuenca, Ecuador, has awarded FCT Combustion two calciner burners and a hot gas generator for its Swing Mill application.