Cement News tagged under: France
Joint venture announces raw clay low-carbon cement plant28 July 2023, Published under Cement NewsOnly a few months after its creation, the Borda Occitanie joint venture of Vicat and Materrup has announced the start of a project to build a low-carbon cement plant based on raw clays in Carbonne in Haute-Garonne, southwest France, to produce 60,000tpa of cement named MCC1. The raw clay used comes from the circular economy with the recovery of quarry co-products. Developed by Materrup and qualified then assessed by Vicat R&D experts, MCC1 © Occitanie has the same technical charact... |
Heidelberg Materials and partners launch GOCO224 July 2023, Published under Cement NewsHeidelberg Materials has announced its GOCO 2 (Grand Ouest CO 2 ) project with jointly partners Elengy, Lafarge France , Heidelberg Materials France, GRT gas, Lhoist and Total Energies. The project aims to capture and store up to 2.6Mta of CO 2 in western France. The project assumes that by 2050 as much as 4Mta of CO 2 will be stored. The project will involve Lafarge Cements Saint-Pierre-la-Cour (Mayenne) plant and Heidelberg Material's in Airvault (Deux-Sèvres) plant, the... |
Ecocem to collaborate with Point.P on low-carbon building solutions17 July 2023, Published under Cement NewsPOINT.P, part of Saint-Gobain Building Distribution France, and Ecocem have reinforced their long history of commercial collaboration with a partnership announcement to develop and market low-carbon solutions for binders, concretes and mortars. This partnership will support POINT.P’s ambition to meet its target of reducing cement-related carbon emissions (ready-mix concrete, concrete blocks and prefabricated elements) by 35 per cent by 2030. For Ecocem, it will be an opportunity t... |
Holcim receives EU Innovation Fund grants for CCUS projects14 July 2023, Published under Cement NewsHolcim has been selected for three grants from the European Union Innovation Fund for breakthrough carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) projects in Belgium, France and Croatia. According to the company, the projects were selected for their highly scalable profile, mature technologies, and advanced partnerships to advance the EU’s Green Deal, putting clean technologies to work for a net-zero future. The three projects are the Go4Zero project in Belgium, which aims to capture and... |
Cem'In'Eu launches Fusiocim low-carbon cement10 July 2023, Published under Cement NewsAfter adopting a low-carbon supply chain, Cem'In'Eu continues to decarbonise its products with the launch of Fusiocim, the latest addition to its line of waterproof bags. Cem'In'Eu projects for its new low-carbon offer (bulk and bag) an objective of 45 per cent of sales within three years. As a result Cem'In'Eu's clinker factor will decrease from 82 per cent in 2019 to 66 per cent in 2026, reducing the carbon footprint of its cements on average by 730 to 645kg of CO 2 /t of cement produ... |
Hoffmann Green signs agreement with French landlord06 July 2023, Published under Cement NewsVendée Habitat, a social landlord in the Pays de la Loire region in France, with around 18,000 homes under its management, has signed an agreement with Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies to specify and promote concrete made with Hoffmann Green's clinker-free cement in all future building programmes throughout the Vendée region. The agreement forms part of Vendée Habitat’s low-carbon development strategy. The collaboration will enable the landlord to build new homes that meet the low-ca... |
Vicat’s Montalieu plant to be CCS pilot site27 June 2023, Published under Cement NewsAs part of the decarbonisation strategy of the top-50 industrial sites with the highest CO 2 emissions, Vicat ’s Montalieu-Vercieu cement plant is expected to be a carbon capture and storage (CCS) pilot site for France. “The idea is to go faster. We had a post-2030 project. We are moving it forward and aiming for implementation before 2030. We are even talking about 2027,” explains Guy Sidos, the CEO of Vicat. “We give ourselves the possibility of going to capture 1Mta of CO 2 , knowing t... |
France leads European construction slowdown23 June 2023, Published under Cement NewsFinancial analysts CIC-Market Solutions (CMS) forecasts a decline in European construction activity, especially in France where new property builds are expected to dip. "The property market, traditionally the first sector of the real economy to be affected by monetary tightening policies, is bearing the full brunt of the combined effect of rising interest rates and higher factor costs, as well as the government's half-hearted efforts to support activity," said the French analysts. "After the... |
CB Green and ECOCEM announce JV for decarbonisation23 June 2023, Published under Cement NewsCB Green, a division of Groupe CB focussed on delivering low carbon and circular economy solutions for the concrete and construction industries, and Ecocem , Europe’s leading independent provider of low-carbon cement technologies, have agreed a long term cooperation agreement to establish a new joint venture which will support the scale-up of Ecocem’s low-carbon ACT technology by 2025, and CB Green’s ambitions to deliver low carbon solutions to the construction industry. The joint ven... |
Hoffmann Green to build four new units in Saudi Arabia22 June 2023, Published under Cement NewsHoffmann Green Cement Technologies has agreed to collaborate with Shurfah Holding to build four Hoffmann units in Saudi Arabia. As part of Saudi Vision 2030, Shurfah Holding and Hoffmann Green have been in talks for over a year with the aim of developing low-carbon Smart Cities. In 2022 the two companies signed a preliminary letter of intent to a test phase which enabled Hoffmann clinker-free cement to be experimented in Saudi Arabia and the production process to be assessed locally. Follo... |