Dima Youness, 2022 LLDP

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 structure and is formed by laboratory technicians.

Let’s get to know them:

Main projects on-the-go

1. Arsenio Gonzalez, Technical service engineer 2. Benoit Dagenais, Lab Supervisor 3. Charles Ellement, civil engineering technician 4. Dima Youness, 2022 LLDP 5. Julie Morissette, Analytical chemistry technician 6. Justin Osei, Civil engineering technician and civil engineer university student ON APRIL 7 AND 8 7. Kishor Nandakumar, Civil engineering technician Jan Jenish, CEO, Holcim, Toufic Tabbara, Region Head 8. Marie-Andree Guindon, Technical North America, Holcim, Jamie Gentoso, President, Services Director Firestone Building Products, Global Head of Solutions & 9. Products Business Unit, Holcim, Mario Gross, CPO, Holcim, Patricia Mejia, Analytical chemistry technician Nollaig Forrest, Global Head of Communications, Holcim, and Hermann Hörmann, Strategy Analyst, Holcim, visited 10. Rino Lisella, Senior civil engineering technician. Lafarge Eastern Canada’s operations and customers in 11. Steve Zupko, Technical service Montreal and Toronto. engineer While the team works for the Cement Product Line, their four main focus areas are: Ready Mix Product Line, Concrete Products, Mortar/Formulators, and Mining. 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 have been performed in May by Mr. Gonzalez. The lab helped do the initial testing and once the industrial trial was completed at our St-Constant Cement Plant, our team helped evaluate the new product.” The lab’s number one R&D project in the past couple of years has been to find some materials to replace a portion of our slag in our offering to the mines - Terraflow product. Their main goal here is to test residues from different industries (cement plant, steel plant, water treatment, lithium mining, etc) and see if there is some potential for using these in our products.