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Canada: Progressive Planet Solutions has hired Japan-based independent technical consultant Gerhard Albrecht. Albrecht’s work for Progressive Planet Solutions will focus on issues around the increased water demand of cement replacement by pozzolanic materials.

Albrecht has created over one hundred patents and appeared in more than 30 papers during his career as Vice President at Germany-based BASF Construction Solutions from 2006 to 2017. He previously held senior research positions at Degussa Construction Chemicals and SKW Trostberg. Albrecht holds a PhD in polymer science from Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany.

Canada: Progressive Planet Solutions has launched a new supplementary cementitious material (SCM) called Gladiator SCM. The company developed Gladiator SCM using its PozGlass recycled glass-based SCM with other more abundant materials. The company says that it has supplied a sample to a global cement producer for evaluation.