US: Florida-based Maschmeyer Concrete has acquired the ready-mix concrete and circular aggregates assets of Ready Mix USA in Atlanta, Georgia. The assets include 17 ready-mix concrete batching plants and employ a total of 230 people. The facilities will continue to operate as before, but under the Maschmeyer Concrete brand. Maschmeyer Concrete says that the acquisition is its first outside of Florida.
US: Buzzi subsidiary Alamo Concrete Products has acquired Big Town Concrete in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The business consists of six ready-mix concrete batching plants. In a post to social media, Alamo Concrete Products said that the deal marks its entry into ‘one of the US’ fastest-growing markets’ and further strengthens the connection between Buzzi Unicem USA’s cement supply operations and its own ready-mix concrete activity.
Canada: Phosphate mining company Arianne Phosphate and recycling company Travertine Technologies have produced a precipitated calcium carbonate co-product of purified phosphoric acid suitable for use in concrete production. A building materials end user has already qualified the product in one of its formulations. The material acts as a permanent CO₂ store, according to the partners.
India: Saint-Gobain India has awarded US$401,000 for two new research laboratories at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Tamil Nadu. The laboratories will be the Admixture Research for Engineering Next-gen Construction (CAREN) laboratory and the Digital Real-Time Sensing Technologies for Infrastructure (DRSTI) laboratory, and will operate as part of the institute’s Centre of Excellence on Technologies for Low-carbon and Lean Construction. United News of India has reported that the funding will flow over a period of three years.
