On Thursday, September 21, 2023, over 250 Santa Maria Valley community members gathered at the Santa Maria Valley Chamber’s 2023 Annual Awards Gala to celebrate community excellence and honor the individuals, organizations and businesses who have made a positive impact on the Santa Maria Valley community. CalPortland's Central Coast division was named Large Business of [...]
CalPortland is pleased to announce Desirea Haggard, Senior Director of Environmental Affairs, has been appointed to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) California Desert District Advisory Council for a 3-year term. Ms. Haggard will represent the energy and mineral development interests. The California Desert District Advisory Council provides advice to the BLM’s California Desert District [...]
CalPortland’s Redding, California and Rillito, Arizona plants have earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ENERGY STAR certification, which signifies that the two industrial plants perform in the top 25 percent of similar facilities nationwide for energy efficiency and meet strict energy efficiency performance levels set by the EPA. "CalPortland is pleased to accept EPA’s [...]
CalPortland is proud to announce that it has received the 2023 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 the nineteenth consecutive year CalPortland has earned the prestigious Partner of the Year Award. “We are extremely honored to receive [...]
The Arizona Manufacturers Council Large Manufacturer of the Year Award was presented to CalPortland on Tuesday, October 11, 2022 in Phoenix, AZ for the company’s ongoing commitment to excellence in manufacturing. Hosted by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the Arizona Manufacturers Council (AMC), the 2022 Arizona Manufacturer of the Year Awards honored [...]
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 [...]
