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Mercedes-Benz is a brand associated with luxury. We have seen several videos on the internet that show how luxurious these cars can be. We have hardly seen people abusing such vehicles in India as they are pretty expensive to buy and maintain. However, we have seen several videos from Russian YouTubers where they actually destroy these vehicles and create videos of the same. Here, we have a video from India where a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen is being used to carry sacks of cement. The video has been shared by…

Let’s end the week with a bit of good news for our future as a species on this floating ball of dirt. Brimstone, a major player in the industrial decarbonization field, has passed a crucial third-party strength test, bringing the dream of net-zero construction one step closer to reality. The company’s proprietary portland cement met the American Society for Testing and Materials' (ASTM) indicating that it can do everything traditionally-made portland cement can do with regard to construction projects. This is a big…

On a day in late April, a small drilling rig sits at the edge of the scrubby overgrown fields of Syracuse, New York, taking soil samples. It’s the first sign of construction on what could become the largest semiconductor manufacturing facility in the United States. The CHIPS and Science Act, passed last year with bipartisan congressional support, was widely viewed by industry leaders and politicians as a way to secure supply chains, and make the United States competitive again in semiconductor chip manufacturing.  Now…

The next step for the startup is to build a demonstration facility producing around 100 tons per day. “That’s the size where you’re no longer invisible to the cement world,” Ellis says. The current goal is to have that facility running in 2025. After that, there’s yet another step: commercial scale, at about a million tons a year.  The world has a huge appetite for cement, and Sublime is working to scale its production to meet it. While the material is basically invisible to us today, its climate impact is huge, and…

Holcim US is going to install a 25-megawatt (MW) solar farm at its Michigan cement factory that will generate more than 30% of the plant’s power. Holcim has pledged to power all of its US operations with 100% clean energy by 2030, and its latest move sees solar developer NorthStar Clean Energy installing an onsite solar farm on 100 acres at Holcim’s Alpena, Michigan, factory. The new solar array will produce over 30% of its current energy demand, and it will boost the factory’s clean energy to…

BUA Cement Plc on Monday said that it had secured a $500 million facility from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and partners to develop energy-efficient cement production capacity and strengthen its equipment and logistics capabilities in northern Nigeria. The company, in a statement, said this investment, marked the largest-ever investment by IFC, will create up to 12,000 direct and indirect jobs and contribute to economic and infrastructural development within Nigeria and the greater Sahel region.…

Over the weekend, Camden’s KOKO celebrated its first anniversary since its post-fire refurbishment with a massive Bank Holiday bash featuring a broad mix of UK club paragons. Central to that was Skepta and Jammer’s Más Tiempo event, which featured the two grime-turned-house impresarios flanked by Benji B, Salomé Le Chat, Kitty Amor, DJ Maximum, Ossie and J Kolo.The Más Tiempo brand was first introduced to the world last year at Circoloco in Ibiza and, as it turns out, that was just the beginning because they’ve just…

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Dangote Cement Plc, sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest cement maker, said it has conducted a practical exhibition of the uses of its Falcon cement variant in the full glare of block moulders and other construction experts at the ongoing trade fair in Enugu. In a statement issued on Sunday, the company noted that users of the new variant are assured of solid structures given its weather-proof quality. It added that the demonstration involved tiling, building, plastering and band screeding. Johnson Olaniyi, the…