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® President & CEO, Allen Hamblen will visit the White House on Friday, March 3, 2023 to meet with senior-level officials of the Biden Administration for a Roundtable on Industrial Innovation and Decarbonization. “We are grateful for the opportunity to share our efforts to reduce carbon emissions and promote American manufacturing jobs,” stated Allen Hamblen. [...]
WASHINGTON – The National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) announced the recipients of the Environmental Excellence Awards and the 2022 winner of the Environmental Leadership Award. The Excellence Awards recognize operations that actively demonstrate a commitment to the exemplary use of environmental controls and systems. NSSGA announced there were a total of 12 Gold [...]
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 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. [...]
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 [...]
