The preservation of wild fauna and flora is one of the sustainable development objectives of Demix. This objective mandated a specialized firm to perform the transplantation of wild garlic and Bloodroot near the Mirabel quarry and track the results of the transplants over a period of three years to help preserve these endangered species. Read

Proud to support Habitat for Humanity, a Holcim employee along with three customers participated in a special mission in Haiti this past November. They joined a volunteer group of the Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Foundation to build 100 homes! Read

Eric Arbour, General Manager of Demix Beton, was the honorary chair and represented Holcim Canada at the 18th edition of the East Township Excellence in Environment Awards Gala which took place October 25 at the Delta Hotel in Sherbrooke. Read

The Demix Laval quarry, located in the middle of an urban center, proves to be a valuable asset. Read

This year, all Demix Agrégats employees are participating in a CSR activity in the community. Read

Each year since 2009, Demix Agrégats organizes a day under the theme: Health and Safety for its hourly employees in order to raise awareness for and prevent accidents. This year, the focus was on the health component. Read

The river remediation project in Cacouna started in 2008 in partnership with the Demix Beton employees at the Drummondville site and the organization GARAF (Groupe d’Aide à la Recherche et à l’Aménagement de la Faune). The main goal of the project is the reintroduction of trout into its natural environment. Read

Two Demix Agrégats employees, Nicolas Gagné and Frederick Belec participated in the 3^rd edition of the Great Pierre Lavoie Challenge from the 17^th to the 19^th of June cycling for 60 hours and covering 1000km. Read

Demix Beton was the proud partner of the finale of the 46th Jeux du Quebec in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield. Over 3000 Quebec athletes participated in activities over the two week period for the games’ finale. Read

A Demix Béton St-Eustache employee and his companions rode a bike for 48 hours on the Gilles-Villeneuve circuit for the foundation “Fais-Un-Vœu™ “ (Make A Wish). Read

The burner of our main plant in Laval, dating back to the 1970s, has been replaced with a new, high-performance model. This change will have a positive environmental impact. Read

Each year, Holcim (Canada) Inc. employees support a charitable organization. This year, a community center of the group Les Auberges du cœur, « L’accueil jeunesse de Lanaudière » was the chosen initiative. The employees will organize a series of activities to raise funds in order to renovate the center’s premises. Read

Once again this year, Holcim (Canada) Inc. invites all of it’s employees to participate in the greatest awareness raising campaign on climate change in Quebec. Read

Holcim Canada employees in Quebec have gotten involved with a certified organic farm for the project “Community supported Agriculture”. They have purchased a series of baskets of organic produce that are delivered weekly to Holcim Canada’s regional office in Longueuil. Eating organic is good, but eating local and organic is even better!
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The Québec and Atlantic region of Holcim Canada was able to successfully reuse materials from its Demix Agrégats Laval quarry concrete and asphalt stock yard in the construction of highway 25. Approximately 200,000 tons of the recycled material was used over the three year span of the project!

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Demix Béton Drummondville is participating in an innovative project to install bat roosts on its silos and buildings. With the maintenance of wooded areas or through their destruction, the natural habitat of these mammals is diminishing. In order to avoid the disappearance of this species, the group GARAF, the Fauna Foundation of Quebec, the school Jean-Raimbault and the Biodome of Montreal propose integrating artificial roots for the bats.
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Over the course of two Sundays this past May, approximately 30 Demix Construction employees gave a helping hand in order to pave and asphalt Dr. Julien's side road located behind the pediatric centre Assistance d'enfants en difficulté (AED). During the last several months, Holcim has organized different events to raise the necessary funds to help revitalize a portion of the road where many activities take place for the children, their families and neighbours of the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood.
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Demix Construction currently operates a portable cement concrete plant. This plant is located in close proximity to construction sites in order to reduce the transportation time of freshly-mixed concrete used in concrete paving.
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Demix Béton's ISO 14001 audit was successfully completed by on July 9, 2010. The external auditor has confirmed the renewal of the division's environmental management system as we were compliant with all requirements. This external audit demonstrates that environmental management is at the core of the division.
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Demix Béton was proud to acknowledge the scholastic efforts of the students of Notre-Dame of Saint- Eustache elementary school. On June 2nd, 2010 a concrete mixer came by the school where students were awarded the opportunity to see the truck thanks to the positive reward system the school has in place. They were able to see the concrete mixer and learn about the duties of a concrete ready-mix truck operator.
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To celebrate Earth Day, Demix employees were encouraged to take action through the promotion of a more sustainable lifestyle, dropping-off toxic household waste for proper disposal, setting office printers to default to double-sided printing, participating in an after-work celebration at a local bistro and attending a lunch and learn with a composting expert.
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Congratulations to all the participants of the 2010 Défi Climat campaign. Demix would like to acknowledge the difference made by the 87 employees who contributed to the fight against climate change by modifying their habits to adopt ways of minimizing emissions and limiting the greenhouse effect.
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Demix Béton is proud to be the concrete supplier for the first construction project in Drummondville to obtain the LEED certification. Lead by Les Constructions Allard inc., on behalf of Waste Management, the building will be used as an education center to help facilitate the integration of young people with learning difficulties in the labour market.
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Demix is participating in the Défi Climat campaign for the second year in a row. Employees from the three divisions, Agrégats, Béton and Construction, are invited to rise to the challenge and change their habits and lifestyles in an effort to limit gas emissions and greenhouse effects.
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Demix Aggregates has made a tangible commitment to protecting the peregrine falcon by signing a protection agreement with Parc de la Rivière des Milles. This threatened bird species nests on the rock faces of the Laval quarry. In 2005, a young orphaned falcon was successfully introduced into the falcon family in Laval.
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Demix Béton Sherbrooke received the Sustainable Development Innovation Award from Fondation Estrienne de l'Environnement at the 16th edition of its Environmental Excellence Awards on October 27, 2009.
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The reconstruction of the St. Jerome section of northbound Highway 15 in 2008 involved the demolition and rebuilding of a nearly sixty meter- long structure overlooking the North River. Demix Construction completed this project using work methods designed to prevent any impact on the river.
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When you arrive at the Demix operating sites in Laval, Saint-François, or Mirabel, look up in the sky and you may see the world's fastest predator: the peregrine falcon. They can dive at speeds upwards of 300 kph!
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Demix is committed to sustainability and environmental protection. We take meaningful action to rehabilitate our quarries, not only restoring our sites after mining but also enhancing the original conditions to give back an enriched and diversified environment to the community.
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In 2009 Holcim (Canada) Inc. and its Québec division employees raised $29,000 to assist the C.E.S.A.M.E center (Deux-Montagnes center for young children's mental health). The money was raised through the "A Holcim Donation from the Heart!" project organized by employees to support a local cause.
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Over 13 years, Demix Agrégats has planted more than 20,000 trees at its Varennes Quarry, in collaboration with the Varennes, St-Amable, St-Bruno-de-Montarville and St-Eustache Scouts.
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