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Portable frac sand plant coming to market
McLanahan Corp. has engaged Cemco Inc. to produce a portable frac sand plant that offers the ability to produce two sizes of frac sand used in oil and natural gas drilling applications. The plant’s...
View ArticleCemex drops plans for Vegas-area gravel operations
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that one of the companies eyeing plans for a gravel operation at Sloan Hills in the south Las Vegas Valley is no longer pursuing the controversial project. Stephen...
View ArticleCemex wind turbine to produce 30 percent of quarry’s energy
Cemex is commissioning a 1-megawatt wind turbine at its quarry located in Madison, Calif. The turbine is one of three renewable energy projects Cemex plans to soon bring online in California. Cemex...
View ArticleCemex halts 10-year pursuit of California quarry
The Fresno Bee reports that Cemex signed off on a mining prohibition for Jesse Morrow Mountain outside of Fresno, Calif., ending the company’s long push for a sand and gravel quarry in the area....
View ArticleCemex at odds with proposed bill
Cemex says that a bill introduced April 18 to block a proposed sand-and-gravel mine in Santa Clarita, Calif., is not a viable resolution to a long-running dispute between the approved open-pit...
View ArticleCemex sand mine proposal delayed
The vote on Cemex’s proposed Four Points Sand Mine in Clermont, Fla., has been pushed back to May 21, reports the Orlando Business Journal. Cemex aims to convert 1,200 acres of farmland into a surface...
View ArticleA $100 billion company without a finance department
Accounting. Finance. Human resources. Information technology. All four of these areas are vital for multimillion-dollar companies to function, but Cemex, as Fast Company reports, outsourced those...
View ArticleCemex forming joint venture company with Concrete Supply
Cemex and Concrete Supply Co. entered into an agreement to form a joint venture company, which will be called Concrete Supply Co. LLC. The transaction is expected to close later this year. The joint...
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Cemex CEO dies, successor not yet named
Cemex Chairman and CEO Lorenzo H. Zambrano died suddenly May 12 at age 70 in Madrid, Spain. Lorenzo H. Zambrano Cemex spokesman Francisco Lebrija says he died of heart failure, while in town for a...
View ArticleCemex names new CEO, chairman
Cemex announced CFO Fernando Gonzalez is the company’s new CEO and Rogelio Zambrano Lozano is now chairman of the board. They replace Lorenzo Zambrano, who died May 12 of heart failure. The company had...
View ArticleCemex makes executive-level changes
Cemex, whose CEO and chairman of the board died earlier this month, made several changes to its senior-level organization. According to a press release, Cemex’s corporate functions will now be...
View ArticleMexico’s Cemex beats expectations with first quarterly profit since 2009
Mexico’s Cemex reported a second-quarter profit of $76 million, its first quarterly profit since the financial crisis in 2009. Cemex, one of the world’s largest cement companies, beat analysis...
View ArticleGroups team up to bid for Lafarge-Holcim assets, sources say
Companies are teaming up to bid for all the assets that Lafarge and Holcim must sell in order to carry out their planned merger, says an article on Reuters. According to sources, Irish cement maker CRH...
View ArticleHouse passes bill to block Cemex mine in California
The House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at blocking the development of the proposed Cemex sand-and-gravel mine in Canyon Country, Calif., according to the Santa Clarita Valley Signal. Rep....
View ArticleCemex sells overseas operations
Cemex signed an agreement to sell its operations in Australia, Hungary and Croatia, as well as its assets in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia. The company sold its operations in Australia and...
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Sandvik, Dyno Nobel team for 10th annual Quarry Academy
Quarry Academy attendees toured the Cemex Balcones Quarry in New Braunfels, Texas. More than 130 aggregate producers attended Sandvik Construction‘s and Dyno Nobel’s 10th annual Quarry Academy...
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Industry quickly reacts to the FAST Act
Passage of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act naturally drew a mostly positive response from industry stakeholders. Here’s how a few people with surface transportation...
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Award-winning operation evolves to meet customer, community needs
Color-coded signs, above, help customers find their way to specific stockpiles at Cemex’s Krome Quarry. Imagine having to return a rental car to an unfamiliar airport without signs directing you where...
View ArticleP&Q Roundtable 2016: The future of the aggregates industry
Mark Musselman of Cemex, Joe Teague of Polydeck Screen Corp. and Michael O’Berry of Vulcan Materials share what excites them about the future of the aggregates industry at the 2016 Pit & Quarry...
View ArticleQualities that make good leaders
What’s the one thing you must have to be a leader? Is it commitment, competency or compassion? How about confidence or courage? Those are all good traits of leaders, but one can’t be a leader without a...
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