On Wednesday, September 5, 2018, CEMEX (ISCP Organizational Member) announced the opening of the company’s first admixture blending plant in the United States. The plant will provide CEMEX’s nearby ready-mix plants with up to 16 different products for regular as well as high-performance concrete applications. When fully-operational, the Brooksville, Florida plant will service CEMEX’s nearly 160 ready-mix facilities throughout its Florida and Mid-South Regions. The Brooksville blending plant is the first of 3 CEMEX admixture plants scheduled to open in the U.S., with 2 additional plants to open in Texas and California at existing sites in the coming months.
Ignacio Madridejos, President-CEMEX-USA, and other company representatives were at the new 21,000 square-foot Florida facility for the Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for the plant opening. “This blending plant produces specialized admixtures developed by CEMEX, and therefore, enables us to create concrete mixtures that differentiate us in the marketplace,” said President Madridejos. “The centralized location of the facility ensures we can deliver those unique admixtures to the facilities that need it, providing our ready-mix customers with exceptional value-added products and allowing our plants to be ready for any request.”
Admixtures developed and produced include a full family of products such as: normal and high-range water reducers; setting accelerators and retarders; air-entraining agents and specialty products—all blended using a state-of-the-art automated system.
In related news, CEMEX announced on September 12 that it has purchased a turnkey aggregates quarry from Blue Star Materials II. The 122-acre site and quarry plant are located in Chico, Texas about 45 miles northwest of Fort Worth, Texas.
For more information about both of these developments, please go to: https://www.cemexusa.com/-/cemex-opens-its-first-admixture-blending-facility-in-u-s-