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When evaluating new bulk storage, total footprint and volume drive the decision. The geometry of storage domes allows a single structure to hold significantly more material than a conventional silo of similar footprint and height. However, the way material moves through the two structures is significantly different.

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When a system is opaque and components age out on the vendor’s schedule, producers don’t really choose an upgrade — they get forced into one. As AI, machine learning and edge computing become more important, cement producers need more flexible and interoperable control architectures.

In response, the Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF), part of The Open Group, has developed the Open Process Automation Standard (O-PAS), a vendor-neutral framework for more modular and resilient industrial control systems.

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The American Cement Association’s (ACA) Market Intelligence team expects inflation and interest rates to remain elevated throughout 2026 – not helping construction in the short-term. The prediction is included in ACA’s Summer Economic Forecast. Continuing uncertainty around the Iran war’s timeline is largely to blame.

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“Achieving certification to BS 8615-1 is a significant milestone for HepCem and gives our customers independent assurance around both the product and the controls behind its manufacture,” said Hepworth CEO Daniel Hannappel. “We have decades of experience working with clay materials and calcination, and HepCem allows us to apply that expertise to one of the most important challenges facing the construction industry: reducing the embodied carbon associated with cement and concrete.”

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The United States imports almost a quarter of the cement it uses. With “Made in America” supported on both sides of the political aisle, is there a wave of new clinker capacity on the horizon? A ripple, perhaps.

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The United States ranks among the world’s most indebted countries relative to the size of its economy, but it is not number one. On the International Monetary Funds’s comparable general-government gross debt measure, U.S. debt is projected at roughly 126% of GDP in 2026, placing it around 10th-12th globally, depending on the country coverage and vintage of the IMF dataset.

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Rock Products Editor and Chief Content Director Mark Kuhar opened the 2026 AggNexus Digital Innovation Conference, which returns to the University of Texas, Austin campus for a third installment. Registration for the September 15-17 program is approaching 200 , , and production professionals, along with information technology, plant or equipment allies.

SEMCO Publishing is staging 2026 AggNexus in partnership with technology providers Axians IAS, Bulk Exchange, Burgex Mining Consultants, CheckProof, EveryPoint, Evotess, Giatec Scientific, Requordit, Rocket Start, skEYEwatch, TruckPay and VAS, plus concrete admixture suppliers alterBiota and Sika Corp.

AggNexus attendees muster for the 2026 AggNexus Digital Innovation Conference welcome session at the Thompson Conference Center on the University of Texas, Austin campus. The early September 16 gathering set the stage for two days of presentations and networking for aggregate, cement, concrete and asphalt producers.

September 16, 2026: 10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. CST
September 17, 2026: 8:00 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. CST

Panel schedule: https://lnkd.in/gdUbjysm
Live streaming is available: https://lnkd.in/ebj7CYwV

According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), total shipments of portland and blended cement, including imports, in the United States and Puerto Rico in April 2026 were an estimated 9.27 million metric tons (Mt), a 2.0% increase from shipments in April 2025. Shipments for the year through April totaled an estimated 30.5 Mt, a 5.1% increase from those for the same period in 2025. https://loom.ly/Ny6xPQ0

Cement Shipments Up in April – Cement Optimized Cement Shipments Up in April 23 hours ago20 hours ago Cement Optimized News According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), total shipments of portland and blended cement, including imports, in the United States and Puerto Rico in April 2026 were an estimated 9.27 million metric tons (Mt), a 2% incr...

Fortera and Mississippi Lime Company (MLC) have signed an agreement to develop a commercial facility designed to produce more than 300,000 tons of low-carbon ReAct cement annually. https://loom.ly/PH2RnwA

Fortera, MLC Sign Agreement for First Full-Scale Commercial ReAct Cement Plant – Cement Optimized Fortera, MLC Sign Agreement for First Full-Scale Commercial ReAct Cement Plant 5 hours ago2 hours ago Cement Optimized News Fortera and Mississippi Lime Company (MLC) have signed an agreement to develop a commercial facility designed to produce more than 300,000 tons of low-carbon ReAct cement annua...