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The Financial Times reports today that the major cement manufacturers expect cement demand in Europe and The US to be 30% and 44% (respectively) lower than in 2007. A squeeze on infrastructure projects, thanks to exploding government debts and tightening of spending is primarily to blame, they said. The major producers are clearly focused on developing markets [...] Researchers at MIT have discovered something that has eluded science for all of history. In research funded by Portuguese cement producer Cimpor, MIT has finally modeled the crystalline structure of cement hydrate. Yes, in spite of cement being the most widely used manmade building material in the world, no one really knew how it worked, at [...] Calera is back in the news with it’s CO2 eating cement made by reacting stack emissions with a magnesium salt rich water solution. The San Francisco Chronical is reporting on his pilot plant and California and the fact that Constantz has managed to get himself invited to speak about Calera to the World of Concrete trade [...] How will Business in the 21st Century Look? Sure it depends on your industry… but the value of time… how can you measure it? Check out this link - Sony played this mind-blowing video at their Executive conference this year Mind-Blowing Video… time in the 21st century In the 21st Century where knowledge is relatively cheap, time is nearly priceless and [...] Notwithstanding the excellent speech by Ed Sullivan at the IEEE Conference we reported on, the Washington Post today reports that job losses slowed dramatically in May, and were far smaller than analysts predictions, fueling hopes that economic recovery is near. While the hoped for bottom in housing has yet to be seen, more promising signs seem to be [...] Here is a list of the speakers for the concurrent Environmental Workshop and our notes on what they had to say during their presentation and during the subsequent Q&A Session for conference participants: 1. AB -32: CO2 Climate Change and the Cement Industry by Michael Stevens of National Cement: Conference Organizers are pretty satisfied with the level of attendance (600 people are reportedly registered) in consideration of the weakened economy. Even more satisfying is that 80 of the 600 are cement producers. California Portland and TXI are key contributors to attendance. Ash Grove has only one registrant, but reportedly will be back in 2010 to support [...] Update : This site and blog are going ‘live’ on Sunday May 31st, from the 2009 IEEE/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference in Palm Springs, California USA. As a courtesy to our customers, we will be posting live updates during the conference to give you a “play-by-play” feel to those of you who could not be in [...] BridgeGap Engineering – Where your Cement, Minerals or Aggregate challenge is our opportunity to provide solutions. We hope you can take some time to surf the site and get an idea what BridgeGap Engineering is about. This site and blog are going ‘live’ at the end of May 2009. It may take a bit to perfect, but enjoy the [...] |
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