JOPPA, IL (KFVS) - One of the kilns at the LaFarge Cement Plant in Joppa, Illinois will shut down, leaving 36 workers without a job. LaFarge North America announced the shut down of the plant's Kiln 2 ...

MONTERREY, Mexico--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. (“CEMEX”) (NYSE: CX) announced today it is optimizing its supply chain to meet shortages experienced throughout the western U.S. The ...

(KTEN) — Texas senators gave their stamp of approval on Tuesday for SB 1758. A bill designed to allow semiconductor manufacturers to conduct business without cement kiln operations interrupting.

(KTEN) — Texas Senate Bill 1758, relating to the operation of cement kilns near semiconductor manufacturing facilities, is now the law. The bill was filed Sunday without Gov. Gregg Abbott's signature.

DAVENPORT — The giant, 3,500-degree oven Cemex uses to turn rock and other raw materials into cement will be fired up and resume production Monday after more than three months of sitting idle in the ...

CEMEX is investing approximately U.S. $15 million to recommission a kiln with a production capacity of about 1 million tons of cement annually at the CPN cement plant in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.