EPD: Portland cement, Type II (Lehigh Cement, Glens Falls Cement Plant)
This EPD reports environmental transparency information for four cement products, produced by Lehigh Cement at their Glenn Falls NY facility. These cements are hydraulic binders and are manufactured by grinding cement clinker and other main or minor constituents into a finely ground, usually grey colored mineral powder. Cement is just one ingredient in the mixture that creates concrete, but it is the most chemically active ingredient and crucial to the quality of the final product. When mixed with water, cement acts as a glue to bind together the sand, gravel or crushed stone to form concrete, one of the most durable, resilient and widely used construction materials in the world. Our Type IL is branded as EcoCem®PLC and was developed to be more environmentally friendly by reducing its carbon footprint (reduction measured through GWP). This product is a general use product for concrete and mortar as well as all the other various applications for cement, including engineered soils and solidification/stabilization of materials and wastes.
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