Items Tagged with "Lafarge Canada"

Lafarge Canada Signs Wind PPA

Lafarge Canada Inc. announced it has entered into a PPA with Calgary-based electricity company, TransAlta Corporation to supply 100 GWh/year of wind power (electricity only) to its Exshaw cement plant."We are proud to have partnered with TransAlta to deliver wind energy to the Exshaw cement plant. C Read More...

Lafarge Canada Launches EV Charging Stations

Lafarge Canada, a member of Holcim Group, announced the opening of the company’s first four Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Canada at its Kent Ave Ready Mix Concrete Plant in Vancouver, British Columbia.The project was initiated in March of 2022 by Lafarge’s Vancouver team with sup Read More...

Lafarge Canada Converts Nova Scotia Cement Plant Production   

Lafarge Canada, a provider of sustainable and innovative building solutions, announced the completion of a transformation of the Brookfield Cement Plant’s cement production in Nova Scotia to a greener portfolio. The site’s production of general use cement (GU) ends and will shift to Read More...

Lafarge Canada Uses Carbon Capture at Cement Facility

Lafarge Canada Inc. launched a project to decarbonize its cement manufacturing facility located in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.The company partnered with Svante Technologies Inc. and Dimensional Energy, Inc.In 2019, Lafarge formed an industry partnership with Svante and Total S.A., which invo Read More...

Lafarge Canada Adds All-Electric Trucks

Lafarge Canada is electrifying its work truck fleet as part of its efforts to reduce its Scope 1 emissions.The company, a subsidiary of Holcim, a global sustainable building solutions company,  is collaborating  with North American electric vehicle supplier Vicinity Motor Corp. and automot Read More...

Lafarge Canada Converts to 100% Low-Carbon Cement Production

Lafarge Canada, a member of Holcim Group and a sustainable building solutions company, announced its conversion to the production of 100% ECOPlanet cement at its Richmond Cement Plant. ECOPlanet is Holcim’s brand of low-carbon cement and offers a minimum 30% reduction in CO2 emissions per Read More...

Lafarge Canada Signs Solar VPPA

Lafarge Canada Inc., a sustainable building solutions company, entered into a 12.5-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA).The agreement was entered into with ATCO Ltd. through its investment in Canadian Utilities Limited.Under this agreement, Lafarge’s Exshaw cement plant will receive 10 Read More...

Lafarge Canada Finishes Green Cement Transition

Lafarge Canada, a sustainable and building solutions company, announced the completion of transitioning from the production of traditional general-use cement to OneCem®, a greener product that results in significantly lower CO2 emissions.The transition occurred at the company's St-Constant Cemen Read More...