CMC 2025 Sustainability Report
  1. Environmental
  2. Management & Innovation
  3. Management & Innovation
product stewardship innovation round

Innovation

Our robust R&D process identifies projects, goals, benchmarks, schedules and commercial strategies. This includes tracking new manufacturing techniques and technologies in the market, enabling us to stay ahead of the competition and better serve our customers. Our sales, operations and technical teams are always searching for sustainable innovations that help address society’s greatest challenges and make our customers’ job easier. We collaborate between our U.S. and Poland teams to research upcoming innovative technologies to upgrade our operations more efficiently and sustainably. We also depend on data analytics and our massive databases of operational data around the world to measure and track our performance to identify areas for improvement.

Implementing successful new processes and innovations involves technological breakthrough and commercialization. Our R&D process involves understanding customer needs, forward market trends and potential new product demand. We learn about opportunities from our people at every level of our organization. At CMC, we have an open-door culture and encourage our stakeholders to elevate innovative ideas. We believe all research is valuable and we archive any innovative initiatives for a future application that may influence new projects and industry demands. However, not all innovative ideas are successful. Despite our rigorous planning and data modeling, some projects just don’t provide the return we require. We evaluate new projects monthly or quarterly, depending on their scale, and we accept that part of innovation is knowing that not all good ideas are right for us and our customers.

CMC has a positive track record of developing and acquiring new and innovative products that offer viable solutions to our customers. We are the only U.S. producer of cryogenic rebar, used primarily in the construction of liquefied natural gas storage tanks.

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Anchoring Systems

The success of any construction project begins with a secure foundation such as CMC’s top-quality anchoring system. Our anchor bolt cages, anchor bolts and other anchoring products have delivered proven reliability in projects around the world.

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Bridge Systems

In the U.S., CMC is the authorized provider of InQuik® Bridges, an innovative bridge solution that is pre-engineered and installs in less than a week.

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Fence Post

Our T-posts are easy to install and made in America from high-strength, hot-rolled steel. They have a three-stud anchor plate and an eco-friendly, low volatile organic compound water-based finish that is oven-cured.

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Geogrid

Geogrids are a category of geosynthetic material primarily manufactured from polypropylene or high-density polyethylene materials that can be used to provide superior solutions for ground reinforcement, stabilization and filtration when compared to traditional methods.

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Geopier

Geopier®, a division of CMC, is a design-build geotechnical engineering team that specializes in ground improvement and can provide a superior solution when compared to traditional methods like stone columns, deep foundations and other rigid inclusions.

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Heat-Treated Steel

These products provide the strength, toughness and protection required for demanding applications in transportation, energy, military equipment, mining, construction markets and others.

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Merchant Bar

Merchant bar comes in a variety of shapes and grades and has applications in conveyor belt systems, ship and barge manufacturing, building joists, metal racks, metal buildings, trailers and more.

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Performance Reinforcing Steel

These high-performance reinforcing bars—including ChromX®, GalvaBar® and CryoSteel®—are designed to perform well in extreme conditions like highly corrosive and ultra-cold environments.

 

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Rebar

Rebar is used to reinforce concrete foundations, roads, bridges and buildings. CMC Steel offers straight rebar in sizes from #3 (10mm diameter) through #24 (76mm diameter) and spooled rebar from #3 through #6.

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Wire Rod

Wire rod is a hot-rolled round produced in coil form that is typically drawn into wire for use in a wide variety of construction and industrial applications.

Tensar+ and Geopier+ help customers analyze the sustainability of projects

Tensar and Geopier both offer free geotechnical design software platforms, Tensar+ and Geopier+, to help over 25,000 engineers, contractors and owners design geogrid and geopier projects.

While the Geopier+ software platform serves as a simple design tool, the Tensar+ platform allows users who use the cloud-based software to evaluate project specifications, compare alternative materials and project conditions, and analyze the sustainability impact of projects including cost and time savings.