BASF's Master Builders Solutions experts have developed a new generation of polymers designed to provide significant improvements in the rheological properties of concrete. Advanced concrete mixes often demonstrate a higher viscosity due to ...
Tags: Construction Chemicals, BASF, Decoration
Ice, snow and cold temperatures – any of these makes construction in the winter time challenging, especially for ready mix concrete producers and users. Often, projects have to be delayed due to the adverse weather conditions. With ...
Tags: mix concrete, cement
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 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Service
Concrete is ubiquitous in our world today. According to the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI), concrete is second only to water as the most-consumed material on earth, and twice as much concrete is used in construction worldwide than ...
There is usually a search for getting that one stop solution for all of the construction chemicals which would be required to build your esteemed project or your dream house. Superior materials should be utilized in a number of methods for ...
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BASF opened a new production plant for concrete admixtures in Kazan, Russia. Together with the facility inaugurated in Podolsk near Moscow in 2012, BASF now supplies the Russian construction sector with a broad range of concrete admixtures ...
Tags: BASF, Concrete Admixtures
The Belgian Competition Council said in a statement late on Friday that CBR, part of HeidelbergCement Group, CCB, a unit of Italcementi, and Holcim Belgium colluded with the Belgian cement association FEBELCEM and the national centre for ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Major players in Indonesia's cement industry have each posted solid growth in revenue in the first half of the year on the back of solid demand for the building material, but that has not translated into profitable results for all of them. ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
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., ...
Tags: Cemex, Cement, Star Certification
Philippe Richart, formally responsible for the Ready Mix Concrete business in Holcim Vietnam, has been appointed CEO of Holcim Lanka. The change of CEO, which was announced in February 2013, was part of a generational change in the ...
Tags: Philippe Richart, CEO, Holcim Lanka
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 ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
On BSE, 7,509 shares were traded in the counter as against average daily volume of 12,016 shares in the past one quarter. The stock hit a high of Rs 1,906.80 and a low of Rs 1,845.95 so far during the day. The stock had hit a record ...
Tags: Ultratech Cement, daily volume, company news
ACC Concrete, India's leading manufacturer of ready mix concrete and a division of ACC Limited, recently introduced 2 breakthrough solutions UTWT 24 and Speedcrete for instant road surface overlay and repair in India. UTWT 24 and ...
Tags: ACC Concrete, UTWT 24 and Speedcrete, road surface overlay
Holcim is to close its cement factory in the Hungarian city of Labatlan (N Hungary) by next year, communications director of Holcim Hungaria Zrt., Iren Marta told local press on Monday. According to reports in MTI, Holcim originally planned ...
Tags: market view, cement
Usually the articles I write feature change of some sort. Most often it’s a statistical series that has moved up or down. Sideways is the exception. A series that is well-known for its volatility is construction costs. That’s ...
Tags: market view, construction