One of the biggest problems in dealing with carbon dioxide emissions is the making of the key component of cement: lime (calcium oxide). Now, a small company with the cute name Sublime Systems appears ...

Concrete is the foundation of communities across the globe. More than 4 billion tons of cement that goes into concrete is produced a year. Locally, the Cal Portland Redding Cement Plant in Mountain ...

Lehigh Cement Plant is located in Cupertino, but the 3,500 acre property includes Palo Alto land as well. Courtesy of Estuary News. A cement plant and limestone quarry in the Santa Clara County ...

This aerial view shows the site of Sublime Systems proposed clean-tech cement manufacturing plant on Water Street in Holyoke. This aerial view shows the site of Sublime Systems proposed clean-tech ...

For every 1,000 kilograms of cement the world produces, 600 kilograms of carbon dioxide are dumped into the atmosphere. If that doesn’t sound like a lot, consider that last year the world made about 4 ...

MITCHELL — Heidelberg Materials celebrated the opening of its new cement plant in Mitchell Tuesday. The state-of-the-art facility will be the second largest cement plant in North America and one of ...

Using new data collected by the Environmental Protection Agency, the analysis by Earthjustice and the Environmental Integrity Project also found "mercury accounting gaps" that raise questions about ...

The world's largest building materials company has entered into a partnership to reuse ash from coal-fired generation plants in Indiana in its production of cement. (Courtesy: LafargeHolcim) The world ...

Holcim (New Zealand) is continuing to work on its proposal for a new cement plant near Weston and shipping terminal in Timaru, despite a decision on whether it will go ahead being put on hold until ...