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 meets strict energy efficiency performance levels set by the EPA. This is the 13th year that the [...]
CalPortland's Oro Grande Cement Plant has been honored with the 2025 Energy & Environment Award for Energy Efficiency by the American Concrete Association (ACA). This recognition celebrates the plant’s ongoing commitment to sustainability, energy efficiency, and environmental stewardship through innovative practices and significant emissions reduction initiatives. The Oro Grande Plant earned this distinction by advancing [...]
Glacier Northwest, a CalPortland Company, is proud to announce that its Kenmore Plant in Washington has been awarded the 2025 Commitment to Environmental Excellence Award by the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA). The NRMCA’s Environmental Excellence Awards program salutes companies that go beyond meeting governmental compliance requirements. Winners are recognized for demonstrating leadership in [...]
CalPortland's dedication to sustainability shines through in its innovative approaches to low-carbon concrete production. There are several benefits of low-carbon concrete, and these benefits are leading us to a greener, more sustainable future. Carbonation Over its lifetime, concrete naturally sucks CO2 from the air. Every highway, every pavement and every building that we pass that [...]
CalPortland is honored to receive the prestigious USGBC California Market Transformation Award for its pioneering work in low-carbon concrete. The award was presented on May 22, 2025, at the California Green Building Conference in San Francisco, hosted by the U.S. Green Building Council – California (USGBC CA). This honor recognizes CalPortland’s leadership in advancing sustainable [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
