Cement’s virtues, Vlasopoulos says, have long been plain ... some standard concrete. Novacem’s other partners include Lafarge, in Paris, the world’s biggest producer of building materials ...

Concrete is an incredibly useful and versatile building material on which not only ... At its core, this is the recipe which any hydraulic cement uses, whether it’s so-called ‘Roman cement ...

Concrete, whose key ingredients include cement, is the world’s most widely used building material ... D.C., for cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer.