US: Mapei Corporation has launched Dynamon XTend 4047, a polycarboxylate-based high-range water-reducing admixture for concrete. The product is designed to deliver extended slump life and higher strength at all ages in precast concrete production and ready-mix concrete applications. Tunnelling Business Magazine News has reported that the admixture is compatible with all Portland cement types.
Serbia: Ready-mix concrete producer Beton Plus will issue a five-year bond worth €85.2m to fund acquisitions and ownership restructuring, SeeNews has reported. The producer will use proceeds to acquire construction and development companies Brigate, City Road Group and Marera Properties, and to merge Marera Construction, Marera Property Management and Marera Services into its own operations. It will also establish a holding structure. Primary trading is set to begin on 14 April 2026.
US: Amrize won two Slag Cement Association (SCA) Lower Carbon Concrete awards at the American Concrete Institute Convention in Chicago on 1 April 2026. One award was for an AI-optimised concrete mix supplied for the construction a Meta data centre in Rosemount, Minnesota. The other was for an EcoTect reduced-CO₂ concrete mix that was supplied for the construction of a Procter & Gamble production plant in Andover, Massachusetts.
Canada: CarbiCrete has received US$503,000 in funding under the government's Energy Innovation Project to scale its cement-free concrete technology, GasWorld News has reported. The technology sequesters CO₂ from flue gas using a process that mineralises steel slag into alternative concrete.
The developer previously deployed its technology at plants in Drummondville in Quebec, Port Colborne in Ontario and Hauts-de-France, France. It operates the French facility via a local partner, Saint-Gobain subsidiary Point.P.
