INSIDE EASTERN CANADA
GETTING TO KNOW
THE ST. LAURENT CEMENT LAB TEAM - PART 1 HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE CGB TEAM (CIMENT, GRANULAT, BÉTON)? ACCORDING TO THEM, THEY ARE KNOWN BY MANY OTHER NAMES, SUCH AS CIHUB (CUSTOMER INNOVATION HUB), MONTREAL CEMENT LAB, ST-LAURENT CEMENT LAB, AND OTHERS. The CGB Team is part of the ECAN Cement Product Line and is formed by laboratory technicians. Let’s get to know them:
products, mortar/formulators, and mining industry. According to Benoit Dagenais, “Currently, our team is working on ECOTercem, an ECOPlanet product that is used for increased durability performance and at the same time is designed to have a low CO2 content. Field tests were performed in May by Mr. Gonzalez, technical service engineer. The lab helped do the initial testing and now that the industrial trial was completed at our St-Constant Cement Plant, our team is helping evaluate the new product.”
1. Benoit Dagenais, Lab Supervisor 2. Charles Ellement, civil engineering technician 3. Julie Morissette, Analytical chemistry technician 4. Justin Osei, Civil engineering technician and civil engineer university student The lab’s number one R&D project in 5. Kishor Nandakumar, Civil engineering the past couple of years has been to find ON APRIL 7 AND 8 technician some materials to replace a portion of 6. Patricia Mejia, Analytical chemistry our slag in the products we offer our Jan Jenish, CEO,customers Holcim, Toufic Tabbara, products. Region Head technician mining - Terraflow 7. Rino Lisella, Senior civil engineeringNorth The mainHolcim, goal here is to Gentoso, test residues America, Jamie President, technician. from different industries (cement plant, & Firestone Building Products, Global Head of Solutions plant, water treatment, lithium Productssteel Business Unit, Holcim, Mario Gross, CPO, Holcim, mining,Global etc) and if there is someHolcim, Nollaig Forrest, Headsee of Communications, potential for using these in our Terraflow and Hermann Hörmann, Strategy Analyst, Holcim, visited Main projects on-the-go Lafarge products. Eastern Canada’s operations and customers in Montreal and Toronto.
While the team works for the Cement Product Line, their four main focus areas are: ready mix concrete, concrete BUILT FOR ALL MAGAZINE
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