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Lehigh Hanson has announced the launch of EcoCem
®PLUS at its Edmonton cement plant in Alberta, Canada. EcoCemPLUS is an innovative blended Portland Limestone Cement (PLC) available in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Lehigh’s latest cement product provides strength and durability while significantly reducing the carbon footprint of concrete.
Along with supporting the company’s vision of sustainable cement and concrete, EcoCemPLUS provides the following benefits to its consumers:
EcoCemPLUS is produced by inter-grinding clinker, fly ash, limestone and gypsum.
Combining materials at the Edmonton cement plant provides the highest level of quality control and assures customers, engineers and end-users consistent proportions.
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Last year’s float glass update told a story of relative stability for the industry. This year’s report, of course, finds a different, uncertain future by the time it is published, the world will have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic for roughly a year.
Like the rest of the glass industry, float glass manufacturers across the world faced economic and manufacturing reversals in early 2020 as the pandemic led to partial or complete shutdowns.
“The primary challenges for us have been flexibility. COVID-19 created a lot of upheaval in terms of customer demands and changing delivery schedules, so adapting to those demands on the fly was probably the greatest challenge we faced as a result of the pandemic,” says Nathan McKenna, director of marketing and innovation for Vitro Architectural Glass.