Cement makers are spending to keep up. Amrize is putting about $900 million into its North American operations this year, and the Midlothian, Texas upgrade sits at the front of the queue, timed for completion in 2027. The reason is simple: Dallas-Fort Worth keeps building, and someone has to supply the mix.
Where the cement money is going
Midlothian anchors the plan, but it isn’t alone. Silvi Materials is building a cement terminal in Morehead City, North Carolina with two storage domes and round-the-clock truck and rail access, the kind of distribution asset that matters as much as production when demand is regional and freight is expensive. Step back and the numbers scale up: North America now holds more than $5.5 billion in cement and lime projects, with roughly $3.76 billion of that in the U.S. The infrastructure law still moving money through 2026 is part of what’s pulling it.
Why domestic cement capacity matters
Cement is heavy, low-value per ton and painful to ship far, so capacity tends to get built near the demand it serves. Tariffs on imported materials only sharpen that logic. When a Texas plant expands, it’s a bet that the region’s construction pipeline, the warehouses, the plants and the roads, holds up long enough to pay it back. Producers clearly think it will.