The Americas

US-flag Great Lakes freighters transported higher volumes of cement and limestone in July 2014 than last year.

Employees from the Lafarge US corporate office and its West Aggregates operations volunteered for a Living Lands and Waters river cleanup in Channahon.

MIT’s CSHub has released two studies examining the life cycle assessment (LCA) of concrete pavements and buildings, and a third assessment on life-cycling costing for streets and highways.

Trinidad Cement Limited has suspended its CEO Rollin Bertrand and appointed one of the Cemex representatives on the board as acting CEO in his place.

According to ASOCEM, sales of cement on Peru’s national market reached 845 907 t in July 2014.

The Lafarge Canada Inc. plant in Exshaw, Alberta, has achieved its targeted reductions in dust, SO2 and NOx emissions.

Six Trinidad Cement directors resigned yesterday and have been replaced by seven new board members.

New York’s Building Congress expects residential construction spending to boost total construction spending figures in 2014; US single-family and privately owned housing starts increased in July 2014.

On 19th August, Steve Daines, US Congressman for Montana, toured the Ash Grove Cement Company plant in Montana City.

FLSmidth will supply the major equipment for the modernisation project at Holcim’s Ada Oklahoma plant.

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. is supplying a variety of specialised, ready mix concretes for the construction of the new BRASKEM IDESA Etileno XXI plant in Veracruz, Mexico.

The Trinidad Cement Limited-owned company attributes its 2013 restructuring for the improvement in operating profit for 1H14.

Together the companies will pursue and execute complex engineering and materials science projects across the US and worldwide.

Thirty years ago, Atlas Copco equipment helped to unearth an unnamed dinosaur that died between 100 and 120 million years ago.

Mr Vance has been with the US cement company for three years, serving as CFO and Vice President of Administration.