The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it has reached an agreement with Cemex Concretos, Inc. and Cemex de Puerto Rico, Inc. (CEMEX) to settle the companies' violations of requirements to control stormwater discharges ...
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CEMEX USA is pleased to announce that five of its cement manufacturing plants have earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ENERGY STAR certification. The recognition of CEMEX USA s plants in Brooksville, Fla., Miami, Fla., ...
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Mexican cement maker Cemex has revealed plans to invest around $100m in expanding its operations in Egypt, Ahram has reported. "A sizable percentage" of the amount will be used to boost its capacity to use coal, pet coke, and other fuels at ...
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CEMEX Latam Holdings, S.A. has announced its 1Q13 results, revealing that consolidated net sales (after adjustments for fewer business days in the quarter) increased 3% y/y to US$383 million. Using the same adjustments, operating EBITDA was ...
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Cemex has signed a research agreement with the Earth Engineering Center (EEC) at Columbia University and the City College of New York, for a study that will investigate the life cycle effects of alternative fuel use in cement manufacturing. ...
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Luis Farias has an obsession. The vice president for energy and sustainability at CEMEX, the Mexican cement company worth more than $13 billion, is "obsessed" with reducing his company s carbon footprint. For the past several years, CEMEX ...
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Cemex has announced its Egyptian unit Assiut Cement Co has learned of a preliminary ruling by a court in Egypt that could invalidate the pact under which Cemex bought a majority stake in the company more than a decade ago. Assiut Cement, ...
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An Egyptian court has ordered the cancellation of Assiut Cement s privatisation contract and the firm returned to state ownership, Ahram has reported. The cement maker has been 95.8% owned by CEMEX, a global building materials firm, since ...
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Already approved to burn scrap tires as fuel in addition to coal and petroleum coke, CEMEX Kosmos now wants to blend in scrap plastic and wood to the fuel that fires its super-hot cement kiln in southwest Louisville, according to public ...
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Cemex proposed on Monday to refinance debt due in 2014 as the Mexican cement maker tries to stem heavy losses triggered by the U. S. Housing crisis, and its shares rose more than 5 percent. The company said in a statement that it would ...
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CEMEX, S. A. B. De C. V. CX -1.08% announced today that it is supplying nearly 100, 000 tons of cement for the construction of Line 1 of the Panama Metro, a stretch of approximately 14 kilometers that is intended to connect two key hubs of ...
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Cemex has reached an agreement with Chinese Sinoma Energy Conservation Ltd. To build a waste heat-to-energy (WHTE) facility. The 800 million Philippine peso (approximately US$18.6 million) facility will be placed in Cemex’s solid ...
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German cement maker HeidelbergCement is getting its energy costs under control and is raising prices, allowing the company to predict profitability will remain at least on last year s level when it was among the highest in the industry. ...
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