SOURCE: Aggregates Business | August 18, 2026
Building materials company Amrize sees huge opportunities in North America, driven by major infrastructure investments and, in particular, the data centre sector.
Amrize is an independent North American building solutions company, which was officially spun off from the global Holcim group in June 2025.
The company was set up with the aim of being the partner of choice for North American professional builders.
It offers advanced solutions from foundation to rooftop, with a 100 per cent focus on the US and Canadian markets.
Amrize operates a significant footprint of over 1000 facilities across the US and Canada and is investing heavily in both capacity expansion and mergers and acquisitions to support growth.
Within its western region, Amrize operates a vertically integrated business spanning seven distinct lines, including aggregates, ready-mix, asphalt, pipe, precast concrete and construction.
The region includes 30 mining sites producing aggregates, sand, gravel, shale, limestone and white rock.
In total, Amrize has 480 aggregates sites, 18 cement plants and 143 cement terminals across its US and Canadian operations.
Amrize serves all sectors of the construction market, including commercial, infrastructure, residential, new build, repair and refurbishment projects across North America.
Amrize regional president in Western Canada Lincoln Kyne oversees one of Amrize’s aggregates and construction materials (ACM) regions.
Kyne said the company is particularly excited about the opportunities arising from infrastructure spending across North America, including large-scale railway, bridge and highway projects, all of which are major consumers of aggregates.
He said the business opportunities for Amrize, driven by growth in demand for data centres in the US and Canada, are considerable.
“The expansion of data centres is a big piece of our business where we’ve had a lot of success,” Kyne said. “There are also major opportunities in ready-mix concrete.”
Driving demand
In July 2025, Amrize partnered with Meta to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-optimised concrete mix tailored to meet the specific needs of Meta’s data centre in Rosemount, Minnesota.
The customised solution was designed to deliver high strength, maintain set-time, and reduce carbon load, meeting Meta’s high-performance, speed, and sustainability targets. The solution leveraged Amrize’s material engineering expertise and Meta-developed open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models, working in partnership with the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
In Canada, Kyne said there were growing opportunities stemming from the Build Canada Strong framework, which is a series of federal nation-building initiatives launched by the Canadian government.
The framework, which was significantly expanded in Spring 2026, consists of three core pillars:
The Build Communities Strong Fund, a $C51 billion infrastructure and housing plan operating over 10 years. It delivers stable funding directly to communities to upgrade public transit, roads, water and wastewater systems, health facilities, and recreational centres.
The Canada Strong Fund: Canada’s first sovereign wealth fund. Seeded with an initial $C25 billion, it invests alongside the private sector in strategic nation-building projects (like advanced manufacturing, energy, and telecommunications) to generate commercial returns for Canadians.
The Build Canada Homes – a federal initiative which is aimed at addressing the housing shortage through affordable homes development at scale on public lands and support for prefabricated modular housing solutions.
Advanced concrete solutions
In March 2026, Amrize launched its new EVERtect high-performance concrete range at the Las Vegas ConExpo-Con/Agg expo.
The EVERtect products are tailored to address specific needs and growing trends, including:
- CONDUTect for data centres
- ECOTect for reduced carbon footprint
- RAPIDTect for enhanced scheduling
- TEMPTect for extended construction seasons.
Amrize said EVERtect represents its commitment to bringing technology-driven, performance-focused engineered solutions to the ready-mix market, designed to meet specific customer needs like speed, temperature variation, and low-carbon emissions.
This range has been rolled out across Amrize’s entire North American market.
Kyne said the launch of the EVERTect brand has helped unify what had previously been a fragmented ready-mix brand portfolio across North America.
“The spin-off created a great opportunity to bring all of those brands together under one identity,” he said.
“Building the Amrize brand – it’s crisp, it’s North American, it means something.
“Bringing it all together shows the scale of our business and our capabilities as a solutions provider.
“The brand recognition has been great, and I truly believe sales are personal. We may have changed the brand, but we haven’t changed the people. Those relationships in those markets do exist, and most of our sales are by relationships. They’re not ringing up a call centre. They’re ringing up our team.”
Amrize chief marketing and corporate affairs officer Nollaig Forrest said a major purpose of launching the Amrize brand was to reinforce the company’s position as the partner of choice for professional builders across North America.
“What that means is to offer the most advanced solutions from foundation to rooftop,” she said. “Amrize has two businesses: building materials, where we are number one in cement and leaders in aggregates and ready-mix.
“In building envelope solutions, where we are number two in commercial roofing and leaders in insulation, wall systems and residential roofing.
“We have a whole foundation to rooftop offering, and we want it to be the most advanced possible for our customers.”
Forrest said that while Amrize officially launched as an independent company in June 2025, the business has more than a century of operating history in the US and Canadian markets. She said the other major driver behind the spin-off of Amrize from Holcim as a standalone is that the company wanted to focus 100 per cent on the US and Canadian markets.
“We are a 100 per cent North American company,” Forrest said.
“And so that’s why we have a unique footprint of over 1000 facilities so that we can serve our customers in a reliable way at speed and scale in every US state, in every Canadian province.
“In terms of our aggregates footprint, we’re number five nationwide, but in the markets that we play, we’re number one or two. There is room for us to expand our footprint in that space.”
Electrification and alternative energy sources are also areas of active exploration and trial for Amrize, with a focus on improving operational efficiency and reducing carbon footprint.
Current initiatives include using renewable diesel and exploring hybrid loaders and electric front-end loaders for specific applications.
Amrize is actively engaged in mergers and acquisitions to expand its footprint.
In February 2026, the company acquired PB Materials, an aggregates business with a complementary ready-mix concrete network in the high-growth West Texas region.
The acquisition is part of Amrize’s profitable growth strategy and strengthens the company’s aggregates business, adding over 50 years of aggregates reserves in West Texas to serve long-term demand.
PB Materials adds 26 operational sites into Amrize’s network, extending its operations throughout Texas and the Southern region as infrastructure, energy projects, data centres and commercial investments drive construction growth.
“The PB Materials acquisition will be one of many to come. We have a rich pipeline that is pointing that direction,” Forrest said.
Kyne said Amrize is well-positioned in both the Canadian and the US markets.
“We have strong local and empowered leadership to build the right relationships, and those relationships are with both customers and also other stakeholders, whether that’s cities, municipalities, regulatory bodies, to ensure we can continue to operate and deliver that quality service,” he said.
Regarding the North American aggregates market, Kyne said there are many independent players, creating an opportunity for Amrize to pursue mergers and acquisitions to expand its footprint and strengthen its business.
He said that Amrize plans to continue investing in aggregate reserves and extending its reserve footprint to maintain a strategic advantage.
In Canada, Kyne said Amrize is well-positioned in provinces where major current building and infrastructure initiatives are taking place.
These include the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 project, a massive $C100 billion trade-enabling expansion project in Delta, British Columbia.
Spearheaded by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, it will add a new three-berth marine container terminal to increase Canada’s west coast cargo capacity by 2.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units annually when it opens in the mid-2030s.
Kyne said the Fraser River Tunnel Project (officially known as the George Massey Tunnel replacement), a $C4.15 billion infrastructure initiative in British Columbia, is another opportunity for the company.
Scheduled to begin major construction in 2026 and finish in 2030, the project will replace the aging 1959-built tunnel with a modern, eight-lane immersed tube tunnel.
In addition, there is the Highway 1 widening scheme from Kamloops to Alberta, a long-term initiative by the British Columbia government to upgrade the 420-kilometre stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway to a modern, four-lane, 100 kilometres per hour standard.
“There’s a lot of infrastructure that is being built in this region, and we’re the strongest in that market and the best placed to participate,” Kyne said.
Amrize is looking at expanding its number of extraction sites, which will form part of this will be organic growth.
“In the aggregate space, it’ll be greenfielding operations, re-permitting, new operations, and we’ve got a lot of examples of doing that,” Kyne said. “So that’s complementary to our existing footprint.
“Where we extract a certain tonnage from the market, we want to ensure that we’re replacing that to create a sustainable business. Our target is that we want to continue to grow north of 50 years’ reserves.”
Forrest said the US construction market is both the largest and one of the most dynamic markets in the world.
“The US construction market is $US2 trillion, and it is still growing,” she said.
“It’s also a market that values advanced solutions and technology.”
Forrest said Amrize’s addressable market is about $US200 billion, while the company’s current value is around $US12 billion.
“Since our launch in June 2025, we invested $US788 million to expand our production capacity in our operations in 2025,” she said.
“In 2026, we’re investing $US900 million to keep on expanding our footprint so that we can best serve our customers’ needs.”
Certified cement
In November 2025, Amrize launched its Made in America label for US builders.
This guarantees that all aspects of its certified cement, from raw materials to processing and manufacturing, are 100 per cent produced in the US.
The label is currently available at nine of Amrize’s 13 US cement plants: Ste. Genevieve, Missouri (North America’s largest cement plant); Midlothian, Texas; Devil’s Slide, Utah; Holly Hill, South Carolina; Portland, Colorado; Ada, Oklahoma; Alpena, Michigan; Joppa, Illinois; and Paulding, Ohio.
Amrize has also rolled out a Product of Canada label for its cement products manufactured at its plants in Bath, Ontario, and Exshaw, Alberta, which guarantees its cement products are manufactured domestically in Canada from raw materials through to processing and production.
“When you buy our Made in America or Product of Canada cement, you’re not just buying cement,” Forrest said.
“You’re buying a cement that’s contributing to domestic manufacturing and jobs.”
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