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Heidelberg Materials North America announced today that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Carver Sand & Gravel, the largest aggregates producer in the Albany, New York, area.

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Pronto, a Silicon Valley-based autonomy pioneer, and Heidelberg Materials North America, a leading producer of construction materials, are pleased to announce their plans to deploy Pronto’s Autonomous Haulage System (AHS) at Heidelberg Materials Lake Bridgeport quarry in Texas. T

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Heidelberg Materials North America is pleased to announce it has been selected for award negotiation to receive up to $5 million in funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a robust, web-based tool that can help ready-mix concrete, cement and aggregate facilities to quickly produce high-quality Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).

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These acquisitions complement the company’s existing footprints in its core markets of Texas and Pennsylvania while strengthening its focus on recycling.

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Heidelberg Materials North America announces the kickoff and encourages participation in the sixth edition of the Quarry Life Award, a nature-based competition across more than 15 countries worldwide.

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Heidelberg Materials North America announced today that it has acquired all assets of Aaron Materials, an established concrete recycler and materials producer in the Corpus Christi area.

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The Portland Cement Association (PCA), representing America’s cement manufacturers, recently announced the winners of its Energy and Environment Awards and its Chairman’s Safety and Safety Innovation Awards at the association’s 2024 Cement Fly-In in Washington, D.C.

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Following last year’s opening of its new state-of-the-art cement plant in Mitchell, Indiana, Heidelberg Materials ceased portland cement production at its manufacturing site in Speed, Indiana and invested in modifying the facility to produce slag cement from domestically sourced slag granules.

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Last month, Heidelberg Materials North America opened the doors of our Granville Island ready-mixed concrete facility in Vancouver, British Columbia, for a community open house. This year marks 104 years of operations at this location and the ongoing support of the community has been vital to our longevity and success in the area.

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DOTs and other agencies increasingly need to consider the sustainability of their infrastructure construction—and recycling post-demolition materials by crushing and processing them for use as a substitute for virgin aggregate is one solution. This second of a two-part series examines ways that we are working with the state of Georgia to ensure post demolition materials find their way into new applications.

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DOTs and other agencies increasingly need to consider the sustainability of their infrastructure construction—and recycling post-demolition materials by crushing and processing them for use as a substitute for virgin aggregate is one solution. This first of a two-part series examines ways that we are working with the state of Washington to ensure post demolition materials find their way into new applications.

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The Fred D. Thompson U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building in Nashville, Tennessee, was a double winner in the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s 2024 PCI Design Awards, receiving both a Special Award for sustainable design as well as an honorable mention in the Government and Public category. Heidelberg Materials TX Active® photocatalytic cement makes this important structure self-cleaning while helping to abate air pollutants.

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We are pleased to be able to leverage the knowledge and experience of our team members to provide learning opportunities and training events for our employees and customers to help them achieve their goals and be more successful at what they do. A great example of this in action is our annual Tech Week, where our Cement Technical Services and Material Quality Control teams from across North America meet to learn about emerging trends and technologies, discuss sustainability and digital innovations and share best practices.

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The building materials industry is rapidly evolving and shifting. The demand for sustainable materials is increasing and new technologies are being introduced at a record pace. Our employees and our customers both face similar challenges in staying on top of new trends and developments in their businesses.

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Heidelberg Materials is pleased to have supplied slag cement for Whitman-Walker Health (WWH) at St. Elizabeth’s / Max Robinson Center, a winner in the 2023 Slag Cement in Sustainable Concrete awards in the architectural category.

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Heidelberg Materials North America announced today the latest step in its two-stage competitive procurement process as it works to select the carbon capture technology and contractor for providing the CO₂ separation solution for its Edmonton, Alberta, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Project. This ground-breaking project is planned to be the first full-scale application of CCUS in the cement sector.

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Heidelberg Materials North America is pleased to announce that Texas Lehigh Cement Company LP, its fifty-fifty joint venture with Eagle Materials Inc., will be starting production at a new slag cement facility in Houston, Texas, this summer.

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In Gig Harbor, Washington, a collaboration between Heidelberg Materials North America, Tacoma/Pierce County Habitat for Humanity, and their partners has showcased an innovative approach to construction: Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF) using concrete produced with EvoBuild® Low Carbon Concrete and Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA). This project was supplied by Corliss Resources LLC, a Heidelberg Materials company which has started its rebranding to Heidelberg Materials this week.

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Heidelberg Materials North America is pleased to announce it has been selected for award negotiation to receive up to $500 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP). The purpose of this project is to advance the integration of full-scale carbon capture, transport, and storage at the new state-of-the-art cement plant in Mitchell, Indiana.

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Heidelberg Materials North America recently hosted customers and other industry partners at its Mitchell, Indiana, cement plant to demonstrate the operation of its rotating packaging system.

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