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Sika completes MBCC acquisition

04 May 2023, Published under Cement News

Sika has completed its acquisition of MBCC Group. Based in Germany and formerly owned by an affiliate of Lone Star Funds, MBCC Group is active in the field of construction systems and admixture systems. To close the transaction and to comply with regulatory requirements, Sika sold MBCC Group’s chemical admixtures assets in the UK, USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand to the international private equity firm Cinven. The business now acquired by Sika generated sales of CHF2.1bn (U...

Heidelberg Materials supplies Europe's largest 3D printed building

01 May 2023, Published under Cement News

Using a special 3D concrete printing material from Heidelberg Materials , the largest 3D printed building in Europe is currently being constructed in Heidelberg, Germany. Printing of the building began at the end of March 2023 and is expected to complete at the end of July 2023. Once completed, the commercial building by real estate company KRAUSGRUPPE, which will be around 54m long, 11m wide and 9m high, will house a data centre. Heidelberg Materials is supplying around 450t of i.tech®...

Heidelberg Materials acquires The SEFA Group Inc

27 April 2023, Published under Cement News

Heidelberg Materials has agreed to acquire The SEFA Group, Inc, the largest recycler of harvested fly ash for use in concrete products in the USA. Based in Lexington, South Carolina, The SEFA Group currently supplies fly ash to over 800 concrete plants across 13 states. According to Heidelberg Materials, the reuse of fly ash from energy generation in alternative products such as composite cements strengthens circularity within its value chain with the addition of fly ash as secondary...

Heidelberg Materials divests its joint venture in Georgia

26 April 2023, Published under Cement News

Heidelberg Materials has completed the divestment of its joint venture in Georgia. The company previously held a 45 per cent stake in CaucasusCement Holding BV, the parent company of HeidelbergCement Georgia Ltd and Terjola Quarry Ltd. Heidelberg Materials sold its share to its long-term joint venture partner Cement Invest BV, an investment company jointly managed and owned by the Georgian Co-Investment Fund and Hunnewell Partners. The joint venture’s scope included two integrated cem...

BEUMER Group appoints director of global sustainability

20 April 2023, Published under Cement News

Andreas Backs is the new Director of Global Sustainability at the BEUMER Group. In this role, he is responsible for the development and implementation of the group’s global sustainability strategy. His responsibilities include formulating a vision and goals, evaluating key issues, and developing a roadmap that measures and improves performance in this area. He is also responsible for communicating with stakeholders and training of employees. Mr Backs joined the BEUMER Group in September 2...

Flender visited by Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

19 April 2023, Published under Cement News

German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Dr Robert Habeck, has visited drive specialist Flender at the international industry expo Hannover Messe. Flender was part of the Minister’s official tour of the expo and Dr Habeck took the opportunity to talk with Flender CEO Andreas Evertz about the energy transition goals for Germany and Europe, Flender’s role as one of the core suppliers for the wind energy industry, and also the importance of an energy-efficient industry o...

Right cooler at the right time

17 April 2023, Published under Cement News

Phoenix Cement’s plant in Beckum, Germany, has benefitted from a year’s worth of operational experience with thyssenkrupp’s new polytrack eco clinker cooler. The first installation of its kind, the cooler has proven to reduce energy consumption amidst a landscape of ballooning energy prices and fuel uncertainty. By thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions, Germany Figure 1: clinker cooler housing and baseframe. The components reused in the conversion at the Phoenix Cement plant are shown ...

Lengfurt plant to establish CAP2U CCUS project

13 April 2023, Published under Cement News

Heidelberg Materials and Linde have established a joint venture under the name "Capture-to-Use" (CAP2U) to build and operate a state-of-the-art CO 2  capture and liquefaction plant. The world's first industrial-scale carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) facility in the cement industry is scheduled to start operations in 2025 at Heidelberg Materials' Lengfurt plant in Germany. The facility will enable the captured CO 2  from cement production to be reused as a valuable raw material in m...

Flender Group appoints new CEO

06 April 2023, Published under Cement News

German drive specialist Flender has announced that Christian Terlinde will take over the company’s Group CFO position starting 1 July 2023. Terlinde is currently Group CFO at German commercial vehicle supplier Jost Werke SE.   Flender Group CEO, Andreas Evertz, said: “I am very happy that we could win Christian Terlinde for Flender. He is the finance and controlling expert that we have been looking for. His strong experience as CFO in international industrial and automotive companies as...

Heidelberg Materials releases its annual and sustainability reports

27 March 2023, Published under Cement News

Heidelberg Materials has published its annual and sustainability report for the 2022 financial year. For the first time, the report combines the company’s financial reporting with detailed information and key figures on the area of environmental, social and governance (ESG), which were previously published separately at a much later date.   The sustainability report takes into account reporting standards such as GRI, SASB, and TCFD, among others. In order to underpin Heidelberg Mater...