US: Amrize won two Slag Cement Association (SCA) Lower Carbon Concrete awards at the American Concrete Institute Convention in Chicago on 1 April 2026. One award was for an AI-optimised concrete mix supplied for the construction a Meta data centre in Rosemount, Minnesota. The other was for an EcoTect reduced-CO₂ concrete mix that was supplied for the construction of a Procter & Gamble production plant in Andover, Massachusetts.
Canada: CarbiCrete has received US$503,000 in funding under the government's Energy Innovation Project to scale its cement-free concrete technology, GasWorld News has reported. The technology sequesters CO₂ from flue gas using a process that mineralises steel slag into alternative concrete.
The developer previously deployed its technology at plants in Drummondville in Quebec, Port Colborne in Ontario and Hauts-de-France, France. It operates the French facility via a local partner, Saint-Gobain subsidiary Point.P.
US: Pennsylvania-based ready-mix concrete producers Boger Concrete and Quandel Concrete have merged to form BQ Concrete, a subsidiary of Byler Materials Group. Local press has reported that BQ Concrete operates five batching plants across Lebanon and Schulykill Counties.
Byler Materials Group President Jonathan Byler said "After seven years in business together through our joint venture, we've made the decision that the two entities are stronger together."
UK: Breedon Group is on schedule to commission two new construction and demolition materials recycling plants in East Anglia and North West England later in March 2026. The upcoming plants will be situated at the Ashbury ready-mix concrete and aggregates plant in Greater Manchester and the Costessey ready-mix concrete batching plant in Norfolk. They will produce recycled aggregates using deliveries of stone, concrete, brick and utility products.
Breedon Group’s Circular Economy Commercial Manager Chris Burgess said "Ashbury and Costessey represent the company's first facilities focused on producing recycled aggregate from customer and operational residual materials."
Breedon already operates a network of five ‘inert waste sites’ serving its quarry restoration and landfilling activities in the UK.
