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Social media platform earns Manufacturing Leadership Award

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Published: Thursday, 15 August 2013 11:10
Written by CP Staff

Cemex S.A.B. de CV has garnered the 2013 Manufacturing Leadership 100 (ML 100) Awards recognition for a business-focused, online network enabling North American operations, marketing and administrative staff to share best safety, regulatory compliance, sales and management practices with peers across the globe.

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Berkeley team does as the Romans did to discover new binder mechanism

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Published: Thursday, 15 August 2013 10:50
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Using the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and core samples from an ancient breakwater near Naples, Italy, a University of California, Berkeley, research team has examined the fine-scale structure and extraordinarily stable binding compound, calcium-aluminum-silicate hydrate of Roman seawater concrete.

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Bright Ideas in X-ray spectromicroscopy research at Advanced Light Source

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Published: Thursday, 15 August 2013 10:46
Written by CP Staff

The Advanced Light Source (ALS) is a third-generation synchrotron, a specialized particle accelerator that generates bright beams of x-rays for scientific research. It is located in a building originally designed in the 1930s by Arthur Brown, Jr.—architect of the Coit Tower in San Francisco—to house Ernest O. Lawrence’s 184-in. cyclotron.

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Clark Pacific adds fourth California plant in Hanson Structural asset deal

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Published: Thursday, 20 September 2012 19:03
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Already a major player in West Coast architectural and structural precast solutions, Clark Pacific has closed on the California assets of Hanson Structural Precast: a flagship plant in Irwindale and 80-acre industrial-zoned site in Adelanto.

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