Glendora, CA July 1, 2022 – CalPortland is pleased to announce that the purchase of the Redding cement plant and other assets from Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. was successfully completed on June 30, 2022. In addition to the Redding cement plant in Northern California, the assets include related cement distribution terminals and 14 ready mixed [...]
Glendora, CA June 10, 2022 – CalPortland is pleased to announce that Hamed Maraghechi has joined the company as Director of the Central Research Laboratory. Hamed will be located at the CalPortland Center of Technical Excellence in Southern California where he will conduct new research and testing related to issues such as carbon reduction and [...]
CalPortland is proud to announce that it has received the 2022 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. This is CalPortland’s eighteenth straight Partner of the Year award. “We are thrilled to receive the 2022 ENERGY STAR Partner of the [...]
CalPortland proudly announces the conversion of their Mojave cement plant to ADVANCEMENT™ HS, a blended portland-limestone cement. The plant, located in southern California annually produces approximately 1.3 million tons of cement. By switching production from ordinary portland cement to portland-limestone cement, the plant will reduce its carbon emissions by 10% on a per ton basis. [...]
WASHINGTON (March 15, 2022) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that 93 U.S. manufacturing plants earned the agency’s ENERGY STAR certification in 2021. ENERGY STAR certified plants are verified to be among the most energy-efficient plants within their industries. Together, they prevented more than 5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Portland Cement Association (PCA) announced the winners of the 2021 Energy and Environment (E&E) Awards, recognizing outstanding environmental and community relations efforts that go above and beyond what is required. Submissions from plants across the U.S. were evaluated and recognized for environmental efforts completed in 2020. “America’s cement manufacturers continue to focus [...]
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) celebrates the 580 manufacturing plants that achieved the energy savings goals set out by EPA ten years ago to drive energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Through the ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry, manufacturing plants pledged to reduce energy intensity by 10% within five years. [...]
Glendora, CA – October 12, 2021 – CalPortland Company today joined an ambitious journey to achieving carbon neutrality across the cement and concrete value chain by signing onto the Portland Cement Association’s (PCA) Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality. In collaboration with PCA’s other member companies and experts, the Roadmap demonstrates how the U.S. cement and concrete industry can [...]
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association announced the winners of its 2021 NRMCA Excellence in Quality Awards. Six ready mix divisions from CalPortland received the Excellence in Quality Award. Winning producers demonstrated that they followed and exceeded quality management principles over a broad range of activities from commitment to quality, materials management, [...]
The National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) announced the recipients of the Environmental Excellence Awards, which recognizes operations that actively demonstrate a commitment to the exemplary use of environmental controls and systems. NSSGA awarded a total of nine Gold, 10 Silver and 63 Bronze Awards. CalPortland’s New River, Arizona plant was honored with the [...]
