VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Marking a big shift in helping to reduce CO2 emissions in construction across Western Canada, Lafarge announced today that their Richmond plant will manufacture only OneCem, the company’s lower carbon portland limestone cement for use in materials across BC and the Pacific Northwest.

Lafarge has converted the entire facility to OneCem – ensuring that all cement produced there maximizes reductions. “OneCem is one of our many answers to building sustainably,” shares Brad Kohl, President & CEO of Lafarge in Western Canada. “OneCem offers all the same performance and qualities as standard cements, but with significantly less CO2 emissions.”

Using OneCem in concrete decreases CO2 emissions while ensuring the same level of strength and durability as concrete produced with regular portland cement. “The built environment plays a central role in the transition towards a low-carbon economy,” says Dr. Rob Shogren, Technical Director Cement North America . “We can make concrete more sustainable when we adjust how it is produced and used.”

“This has been a long term goal for our operations,” explains Cory Cannon, VP of Sales and Logistics. “Through collaboration with municipalities, constructors, and engineers, we have encouraged the shift away from standard cements and converting to OneCem since 2011. This commitment means that every product manufactured with OneCem has lower emissions than ever before.”

Richmond services a wide range of markets in Canada and has supplied its Western Canadian and Pacific NW customers with OneCem since 2011. Richmond’s OneCem CO2 emissions per tonne are 20% below the national Canadian average for GU cement. Concurrently, it’s also 13% lower than the national average for other PLC cements manufactured in Canada. Since 2011, when Richmond began producing OneCem, “We have eliminated 1,175,000,000 kilograms of CO2 from our atmosphere. This is equivalent to taking a quarter of a million vehicles off our roads for an entire calendar year,” says Cannon.

“The opportunity for North American cities to build sustainably is significant,” shares Kohl. The impact of reducing CO2 emissions in the built environment has been identified as a key driver in reducing climate change. “Collaborating with local government and stakeholders was key to ensuring its uptake in the market, and conversion away from traditional high intensity cement products,” he says. “As industry leaders we want to facilitate access to low carbon cements across Canada, and starting with Richmond is a big step towards making that happen.”

About Lafarge Canada Inc.
Lafarge is Canada’s largest provider of sustainable construction materials and a member of the global group, Holcim. With 6,000 employees and 350 sites across Canada, our mission is to provide construction solutions that build better cities and communities. The cities where Canadians live, work and raise their families along with the community’s infrastructure benefit from the solutions provided by Lafarge consisting of aggregates, asphalt and paving, cement, precast concrete, ready-mix concrete, and road construction. www.lafarge.ca

Contacts

Jill Truscott, Manager of Communications jill.truscott@lafargeholcim.com 403-354-5063

TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Real Matters Inc. (“Real Matters”), a leading network management services provider for the mortgage lending and insurance industries, will announce its second quarter financial results via news release on Thursday, April 28, 2022, before market open.

Conference Call and Webcast

A conference call to review the results will take place at 10:00 a.m. (ET) on Thursday, April 28, 2022, hosted by Chief Executive Officer Brian Lang and Chief Financial Officer Bill Herman. An accompanying slide presentation will be posted to the Investor Relations section of our website shortly before the call.

To access the call:

• Participant Toll Free Dial-In Number: (833) 247-5856
• Participant International Dial-In Number: (647) 689-4232
• Conference ID: 3552655

To listen to the live webcast of the call:

• Go to: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/3289578/4E32D8D862FF59C7AA863AB15230EEF5

The webcast will be archived and a transcript of the call will be available in the Investor Relations section of our website following the call.

About Real Matters

Real Matters is a leading network management services provider for the mortgage lending and insurance industries. Real Matters’ platform combines its proprietary technology and network management capabilities with tens of thousands of independent qualified field professionals to create an efficient marketplace for the provision of mortgage lending and insurance industry services. Our clients include top 100 mortgage lenders in the U.S. and some of the largest insurance companies in North America. We are a leading independent provider of residential real estate appraisals to the mortgage market and a leading independent provider of title and mortgage closing services in the U.S. Headquartered in Markham (ON), Real Matters has principal offices in Buffalo (NY), Middletown (RI) and Scottsdale (AZ). Real Matters is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol REAL. For more information, visit www.realmatters.com.

Contacts

Lyne Beauregard

Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications

Real Matters

lbeauregard@realmatters.com
416.994.5930

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#AssetManagement–H.I.G. Capital, LLC (“H.I.G.”), a leading global alternative investment firm with $48 billion of equity capital under management, announced today that one of its affiliates has recently completed the disposal of Urban Garden, a 29,000 sqm newly built office complex in Lyon, France’s second largest economic centre. The buildings were acquired in October 2019 and received a BREEAM excellent rating in 2021. H.I.G. brought the occupancy to 100% six months before the asset completion in May 2021. Terms were not disclosed.

Riccardo Dallolio, Managing Director and Head of H.I.G. Europe Realty Partners, commented: “Urban Garden is another example of our ability, through our value-add initiatives and hands on asset management approach, to deliver high quality, future-proof assets that appeal to long term institutional investors”.

Mihai Gavriloiu, Principal at H.I.G. Europe Realty Partners, added: “France represents an important part of our European strategy where we continue to seek additional small and mid-cap, value-add, investment opportunities to increase H.I.G.´s presence in this market. We are very pleased with the strong returns we were able to achieve on this exit”.

About H.I.G. Capital

H.I.G. is a leading global alternative assets investment firm with $48 billion of equity capital under management.* Based in Miami, and with offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Atlanta in the U.S., as well as international affiliate offices in London, Hamburg, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Bogotá, H.I.G. specializes in providing both debt and equity capital to small and mid-sized companies, utilizing a flexible and operationally focused/value-added approach:

1. H.I.G.’s equity funds invest in management buyouts, recapitalizations and corporate carve-outs of both profitable as well as underperforming manufacturing and service businesses.
2. H.I.G.’s debt funds invest in senior, unitranche and junior debt financing to companies across the size spectrum, both on a primary (direct origination) basis, as well as in the secondary markets. H.I.G. is also a leading CLO manager, through its WhiteHorse family of vehicles, and manages a publicly traded BDC, WhiteHorse Finance.
3. H.I.G.’s real estate funds invest in value-added properties, which can benefit from improved asset management practices.
4. H.I.G. Infrastructure focuses on making value-add and core plus investments in the infrastructure sector.

Since its founding in 1993, H.I.G. has invested in and managed more than 300 companies worldwide. The firm’s current portfolio includes more than 100 companies with combined sales in excess of $30 billion. For more information, please refer to the H.I.G. website at www.higcapital.com.

^{* Based on total capital commitments managed by H.I.G. Capital and affiliates.}

Contacts

Riccardo Dallolio

Managing Director

rdallolio@higrealty.com