Heidelberg Materials North America has moved towards sustainability by turning one of its cement plants into a slag grinding facility. Slag is often disregarded as a waste product from metals during ...

When manufacturers produce cement for concrete, they can add a material called ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) to their mixture. GGBS is a by-product of iron produced by blast furnaces and ...

Slag is the molten runoff created while producing steel in a traditional blast furnace. The material has been prized as a greener cement alternative for creating concrete, the Earth’s most abundant ...

Lithium slag, a by-product of lithium extraction, has emerged as a versatile supplementary cementitious material in both Portland cement systems and alkali-activated binders. Its high content of ...

Concrete, the second-most-used material on Earth, generates about four times more CO2 emissions than planes. MIDDLESBROUGH, England — Behold one of the world’s greatest slag heaps: A towering landfill ...

Using materials science, engineering, nanotechnology and manufacturing, C-Crete has developed two binders for portland-cement-free concrete. One replaces the cement with slag and the other with ...