Cemex marked the 50th anniversary of its Balcones Quarry in New Braunfels, Texas, holding an event to celebrate the facility’s milestone while looking toward the operation’s future.
Read MoreDay: September 20, 2018
AEM’s I Make America Town Hall Tour Concludes in Washington
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) on Sept. 20 co-hosted a town hall in partnership with Genie, a Terex AWP brand, in front of 150 Genie team members on the business’s showroom floor and with thousands more watching online. The event took place in Redmond, Wash.
Read MoreAddressing the Environmental Impacts of Fracking
Dan Soeder, director of the Energy Resources Initiative at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, co-authored an article titled “When Oil And Water Mix: Understanding The Environmental Impacts Of Shale Development,” in the September 2018 issue of GSA Today, a magazine published by the Geological Society of America.
Read MoreWitte Co. Fluid Bed Dryers Engineered as Complete Solution
Vibrating fluid bed dryers and coolers from process equipment manufacturer The Witte Co. feature rugged, unitary, steel bases as standard that allow cover lift hoists, process air ductwork, control panels, monitoring instrumentation, and other auxiliary equipment to be attached to the system as a single unit.
Read MorePioneer, U.S. Silica, Seal Agreement
Pioneer Natural Resources Co. and U.S. Silica Holdings Inc. announced that the companies have entered into a long-term sand supply agreement by which Pioneer will purchase an interest in U.S. Silica’s sand reserves at its Lamesa, Texas, mine in west Texas. This agreement secures a long-term supply of sand from the mine, with U.S. Silica processing and supplying sand to…
Read MoreBadger Mining’s Kermit, Texas, Facility Gets Rolling
Badger Mining Corp. (BMC) sent out the first truckloads of sand from its new sand mining facility located eight miles north of Kermit, Texas. Less than nine months after breaking ground on its 1,280-acre property on Texas Highway 18, production and loadout shipments have commenced with the target to be at total capacity by early next year.
Read MoreThis Week’s Market Buzz
• Canadian industrial silica sand demand is projected to rise 6.7 percent annually to 9.81 million metric tons in 2022. Growth will be driven by the need for frac sand by oil and gas suppliers, who rely upon this sand to boost the productivity of existing wells. This and other trends are presented in “Global Industrial Silica Sand, 4th Edition,”…
Read MoreMore than 300 Connecticut Bridges Structurally Deficient
More than 300 Connecticut bridges (20 ft. or longer), carrying 4.3 million vehicles daily, are structurally deficient, according to a new report released by TRIP, a Washington, D.C.-based national transportation research group. A bridge is structurally deficient if there is significant deterioration of the bridge deck, supports or other major components.
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