The Cement Industry Federation (CIF) has commissioned a report detailing eight pathways to decarbonise the cement and concrete industries, with members Boral, Adbri and Cement Australian all aboard.
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Old quarry shares last hurrah before waters rise
A quarry in Virginia, United States, is weeks away from brimming with ground water to serve a nearby water treatment plant and the 17,000 people it serves.
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Canadian quarry reveals big-headed Burgess Shale fossil
Canadian palaeontologists have discovered one of the largest fossils for its era in a quarry site of Burgess Shale at Kootenay National Park.
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Youngest Moon rocks on record only 2 billion years old
Curtin University researchers have helped to refine our understanding of the solar system’s timeline, dating the youngest Moon rocks ever discovered.
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Promising carbon capture from Calix, HeidelbergCement
Calix has conducted a study at a HeidelbergCement subsidiary’s Belgian facility on low emissions intensity lime and cement with strongly endorsed results.
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Boral to repay shareholders for weathering the storm
Boral has completed the sale of several construction materials businesses, allowing it to pay its shareholders up to $3 billion in surplus capital.
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Female quarry workers set in stone
The Institute of Quarrying has enabled a new statue that tips its hat to female quarry workers to be built near the centre of the United Kingdom.
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LafargeHolcim achieves US-first with Portland plant
LafargeHolcim has converted a cement plant in Texas, United States, to only produce Portland limestone cement (PLC), furthering its efforts in sustainable construction materials.
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STEM students move Volvo hauler with brain power
A Volvo A60H articulated hauler has been towed using only LEGO Technic elements, in a quirky challenge set up by Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) and LEGO Group.
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OEM restructures under one banner for producers
In a move designed to deliver benefits to extractive producers and change the way its products are presented to the market, Astec Industries has announced a major restructuring of the company’s business model.
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