CalPortland is proud to announce six plants achieved the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA’s) ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry. The ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry recognizes plants that achieve a 10% reduction in energy intensity within five years. The average energy intensity reduction for all six CalPortland plants was 33.2 percent. By achieving the ENERGY [...]
CalPortland is pleased to announce the acquisition of the aggregate and ready mixed concrete business assets of Grimes Rock, Inc. and its affiliates located in Ventura County, California. “We are excited to welcome the Grimes Rock employees to the CalPortland family,” said Allen Hamblen, CalPortland President & CEO. “This addition aligns with our commitment to [...]
Outperforms similar U.S. plants on measure of energy efficiency December 10, 2024, Las Vegas, Nevada - The Rillito cement plant owned by CalPortland, has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ENERGY STAR certification, which signifies that the industrial plant performs in the top 25 percent of similar facilities nationwide for energy efficiency and [...]
July 16, 2024 Summerlin, NV – CalPortland is proud to announce four plants achieved the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA’s) ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry. The ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry recognizes plants that achieve a 10% reduction in energy intensity within five years. The average energy intensity reduction for all four plants was 38.4 percent. [...]
Solidia Technologies, Inc., a pioneer and leading company in the low carbon cement and concrete market, has entered into a technology licensing arrangement with CalPortland® Company, one of the largest building materials producers in the Western United States, for the license of certain patents that enable up to a 50% reduction in the carbon footprint [...]
Washington, D.C. (June 14, 2024) — The Portland Cement Association (PCA), representing America’s cement manufacturers, this week announced 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. The awards recognize PCA member company teams who excelled in implementing new energy and environmental initiatives, [...]
Portland cement is one of the most widely used building materials in the world. Versatile, strong, and sustainable, it’s a basic ingredient in concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout. Its gray color resembles Portland stone, a common building limestone quarried from the Isle of Portland, off the coast of England. The original mixture was created [...]
CalPortland is pleased to announce that it has received the 2024 ENERGY STAR PARTNER OF THE YEAR Sustained Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This is CalPortland’s twentieth consecutive ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award, a feat not matched by any other industrial company. “We are honored to receive the ENERGY STAR [...]
WASHINGTON – March 14, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized 103 U.S. manufacturing plants that earned the agency’s ENERGY STAR certification in 2023, a designation reserved for manufacturing plants in the top 25% of energy efficiency in their sector. Together, these plants prevented more than 8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent [...]
CalPortland announced the creation of a Carbon Reduction Team focused on Research and Development and the Implementation of Decarbonization Projects. The team will be led by Hamed Maraghechi, Vice President of Research & Development and Decarbonization, and Hartmut Riess, Vice President of Carbon Reduction Implementation. The team will be dedicated to science-driven research and analysis [...]
