Texas Lehigh: Products and EPD Coverage Snapshot

Who is Texas Lehigh and what do they sell

Texas Lehigh is a Texas‑based cement producer headquartered in Buda with a long‑running joint venture pedigree. Their public site highlights four construction cement types, masonry cements, API oil‑well cements, and a dedicated slag cement line started through a new Houston facility (About, Slag Cement). The Houston slag plant was built for roughly half‑million tons per year capacity, supplementing the Buda clinker base (Business Wire, 2024) (Business Wire, 2024).

Portfolio breadth, in plain English

From a buyer’s lens, the company plays in a handful of cement families rather than dozens of unrelated categories. Look for a tight range of SKUs across bulk and bag, covering structural concrete uses, masonry, and oil‑well service grades, with totals roughly in the dozens once sizes and terminals are counted. That focus fits regional producers that compete on availability, specs, and service more than on exotic niche chemistries.

EPD coverage today

As of December 25, 2025, we did not find product‑specific, third‑party verified EPDs published under the Texas Lehigh name for portland, masonry, oil‑well, or slag cement. If one exists behind a portal or distributor login, it is not plainly discoverable on public operator libraries or the company site. That creates friction for specifiers who now default to conservative carbon assumptions when an EPD is missing.

Why this matters on real projects

LEED v5 and many owner policies increasingly prefer or require product‑specific EPDs over estimates. When a product has no EPD, teams often apply penalty factors in embodied‑carbon models, which can nudge a like‑for‑like swap toward a competitor that discloses. That means bids get harder, conversations get shorter, and price becomes the only lever. No one wants that outcome.

A clear example of the gap

Type IL portland‑limestone cement has become the workhorse spec in many markets. Holcim publicly lists cement plant EPDs, including Midlothian, alongside a network that has shifted most U.S. plants to OneCem Type IL, noted as 12 of 13 facilities at last update (Holcim US, 2025) (Holcim US, 2025). On slag, Texas Lehigh’s new Houston capacity is a commercial win, yet competitors already publish slag EPDs, for example Skyway Cement under Eagle Materials’ umbrella, which makes comparisions easier for buyers (Skyway Cement). Capitol Aggregates, another Texas name, also posts cement EPDs for straightforward download (Capitol Aggregates).

How many categories do they really serve

Strip away marketing and count functions. We see one core family of portland cements, one masonry family, one oil‑well family, and one slag product stream. That is several categories, not many. SKU‑wise, packaging and strength classes push the offering into the dozens, not hundreds. This concentration is normal for integrated cement plants feeding ready‑mix and DOT work.

The PCR backdrop to keep in view

Cement EPDs in North America follow a category rule that was updated in 2020, with industry‑average EPDs last issued in 2021 and the next update expected in 2026, so the rulebook is stable enough to move quickly on product‑specific work now (PCA, 2024) (PCA, 2024).

Who they likely meet in the spec lane

On Texas jobs, common alternatives include Holcim US, CEMEX USA, Capitol Aggregates, GCC, and other regional terminals. Several of these publish cement and slag EPDs that specifiers can slot into models in minutes, which shortens the path from submittal to approval.

If we were prioritizing EPDs here

Start with the high‑volume portland line used across structural concrete, then address slag and masonry. Oil‑well grades follow if customers ask. Keep it simple: one plant‑specific EPD per product family, built on current data, then expand to variants if the market needs them. The goal is fast coverage that removes selection friction, not a museum of PDFs.

What makes the work go faster

Pick a partner who will do the heavy lifting: collecting utility and kiln data, normalizing clinker and SCM flows, aligning on the correct PCR, and publishing with the operator your customers prefer in the U.S. or Europe. The best teams make data capture painless and keep your production staff focused on running the plant, not wrangling spreadsheets. That is how EPDs become a sales asset, not a chore.

Final take

Texas Lehigh is well positioned on material availability and now has new slag capacity to match market demand. The visible gap is transparency. A small set of plant‑specific EPDs would make their core products instantly easier to specify, which pays back quickly in bids where disclosure is a tiebreaker. It is definately time to turn those mill certs into verified declarations.