Feb. 10, 2025 – One of the top economists in the industry is stepping down. Ed Sullivan, senior vice president of market intelligence and chief economist, announced his resignation from the Portland Cement Association (PCA), effective March 1. His economic forecasts have long been a mainstay of the construction-materials industry. “After 22 years, I have resigned from PCA as chief…
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PCA Comments on Election
Nov. 6, 2024 – The Portland Cement Association (PCA) – representing America’s cement manufacturers – said it congratulates and looks forward to working with President Donald J. Trump and both newly-elected and returning members of Congress. “PCA is eager to work with the incoming administration to create market‐based policies and initiatives that will enable the cement and concrete industry’s continued…
Read MoreCalPortland Signs Patent License Agreement With Solidia
Taiheiyo Cement Corp. announced that its subsidiary, CalPortland Company (CPC) has signed a license agreement with Solidia Technologies Inc., a Texas-based company specializing in low-carbon cement and concrete, regarding patents focused on reducing CO2 emissions. Taiheiyo Cement Group implemented its “Carbon Neutral Strategy 2050” with the aim of achieving carbon neutrality throughout the entire supply chain by 2050. To achieve this…
Read MorePCA’s Sullivan Refines Economic Forecast at WOC
Ed Sullivan, Portland Cement Association’s (PCA) chief economist and senior vice president of market Intelligence, anticipates the U.S. economy will gradually weaken during the first half of 2024 but will likely slowly recover in the second half. Sullivan made that prediction and others for the industries at a press conference held at World of Concrete 2024 in Las Vegas. Sullivan…
Read MoreCement Leaders Tie CO2 Reduction to Permitting, Regulatory Certainty
Portland Cement Association (PCA) producer-member executives, convening for a panel during the late-April IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Conference in Dallas, confirmed that alternative fuel usage and carbon capture storage (CCS) technology are positioning their industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a 2050 timetable true to the PCA Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality. PCA Chair and Votorantim Cimentos North America CEO Filiberto Ruiz…
Read MoreEnergy Star Cement Plants and Emissions Prevention
The 86 facilities recognized in the EPA Energy Star Industrial Program – 10 cement plants in eight states among them – are credited with saving more than 100 trillion Btu of energy and preventing 6 million-plus metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. The cement and peer plants earned Energy Star certification for operating in the top 25% of energy efficiency…
Read MoreNSSGA Convention Returns to Las Vegas
“More than 1,100 industry leaders gathered in Las Vegas for the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association’s (NSSGA) 2023 Joint Annual Convention. This event occurs every three years and includes collaborative programming with the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) and the Portland Cement Association (PCA). The 2023 meeting theme of Building the Future Together, focuses on the unity among the…
Read MoreCharles Machemehl Dies; Worked for Vulcan, PCA, GCMA
Brigadier General (USAF, ANG) Charles Albert Machemehl Jr., 87, of Vestavia Hills, Ala., died on Jan. 9 as a result of the Covid virus. He was born in Houston, and he was awarded a full scholarship to play football for The University of Texas Longhorns. He played varsity football, completed ROTC and graduated with a B.S. degree in civil engineering.…
Read MorePCA Announces 2022 Focus at World of Concrete
Portland Cement Association (PCA) President and CEO Mike Ireland, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist Ed Sullivan and Senior Vice President of Sustainability Rick Bohan unveiled the near-term goals and 2022 focus for the cement and concrete industry’s Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality, a plan to make the entire value chain carbon neutral by 2050, at the 2022 World of Concrete…
Read MoreOne More Giant Step
When the FAST Act was signed into law in 2015 by President Obama, it averaged $45 billion per year in spending on roads and bridges. Contrast that to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act just passed by the Senate. The bill, which now goes to the House, averages just over $70 billion per year, according to National Stone, Sand &…
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