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| Lafarge secures new marketing agreements Lafarge, the largest diversified supplier of construction materials in North America, announced that it has secured two new agreements for marketing high-quality Class C fly ash from American Electric Power's Welsh (Cason) and Oklaunion (Vernon) power stations in North Texas. The fly ash agreements will expand Lafarge's product offerings in the east / west corridor of I-20 between Shreveport, LA, and Odessa, TX, and position the company to better serve customers throughout the Dallas - Fort Worth metroplex. Derived from burning coal in electric utility plants, fly ash is used in geo-technical applications for soil stabilization as well as a supplementary cementitious material for many high-performance concretes used in constructing roads, bridges and commercial buildings. In addition to its many performance and economic advantages, fly ash use in concrete is beneficial to the environment as it recycles a by-product material from another industrial process. It also allows ready mix concrete producers to optimize their use of portland cement, thereby reducing the carbon footprint and lowering the embedded energy of concrete. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Construction News :: home page |