Cement News tagged under: Aggregate Industries
Aggregate Industries to establish Southampton import facility20 February 2024, Published under Cement NewsAggregate Industries ’ cement business is expanding by establishing a new cement storage facility for deepsea shipping lines at the Port of Southampton, UK. As part of a 20-year agreement , Aggregate Industries will be working with port owner Associated British Ports and industry-leading cargo handler Solent Stevedores, who will be operating the cement import facility. This latest investment will help the business maintain a continuous supply of lower-carbon cementitious products thro... |
Aggregate Industries breaks ground on new Tilbury plant14 December 2023, Published under Cement NewsAggregate Industries has broken ground on its new low-carbon cement production unit at the Port of Tilbury in the UK. The new facility will enable the company to supply its customers with conventional, low carbon, and circular cementitious materials from five loading heads. The primary objective of the new unit is to meet increasing demand for sustainable building materials. As well as providing an import hub, this major investment includes new plant equipment for manufacturing blended... |
Aggregate Industries to use waste ceramics as alternative fuel28 November 2023, Published under Cement NewsThousands of tonnes of waste ceramics from one of the UK’s largest ceramic tile manufacturers will be recycled to make cement as part of a new initiative from Aggregates Industries . Aggregate Industries has agreed a four-year deal with Johnson Tiles to take 20,000t of legacy waste and broken production scrap a year from its Stoke factory. The tiles will make the short trip from the factory to Aggregate Industries’ Cauldon cement plant in Staffordshire, where it will be used as an alterna... |
Aggregate Industries appoints group strategy and commercial growth director23 November 2023, Published under Cement NewsAggregate Industries , part of Holcim , has appointed Kaziwe Kaulule as its new group strategy and commercial growth director. With a career spanning over 19 years with the Holcim Group, Mr Kaulule brings extensive experience to the role, including operations, digital transformation, business development, and mergers and acquisitions. His most recent role was as chief executive officer (CEO) at Lafarge Industries South Africa . He has also served as CEO at Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe and h... |
Aggregate Industries harnesses AI to improve tanker driver safety12 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsAggregate Industries , working with its partner Lomas Distribution, has become the first cement manufacturer in the UK to install new artificial intelligence (AI) technology to prevent cement tanker drivers from falling asleep at the wheel. The Driver Status Monitoring System, developed by Spillard Vehicle Safety Systems, uses a range of in-cab cameras and sensors to actively detect driver fatigue. The intelligent algorithm helps track and detect eye movements like rapid blinking, facial... |
Implications of EU's call to ban climate-neutral offsetting06 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsThe EU institutions finalised a new law on 19 September 2023 to enact a sweeping ban to combat erroneous claims of sustainability. Companies will be prevented from 'greenwashing', a term used to describe the practice of making misleading claims about a product's climate friendliness. Gilles Dufrasane, policy lead at Carbon Market Watch, says: "The EU is sending a powerful signal to the voluntary carbon market: the era of offsetting is over." What does this mean for the cement sector? For ... |
EcoPact range gains EPD status10 August 2023, Published under Cement NewsAggregate Industries ( Holcim ) has further invested in its sustainability commitments by obtaining Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for its range of concrete solutions, including its low-carbon concrete ECOPact range. In a UK first for ready-mix concrete products, Aggregate Industries has invested in individual product and plant EPDs for its London Concrete business. This includes the ECOPact product range, the world’s lowest range of low-carbon concrete, DYNAMax High Performan... |
New kiln bag filter at Cauldon25 July 2023, Published under Cement NewsA new kiln bag filter system currently being installed at the Cauldon cement plant of Holcim-owned Aggregate Industries is expected to be operational by early 2024 A new multi-million-pound system is currently being built at Aggregate Industries ' Cauldon cement plant, UK, to reduce emissions at the site and improve performance. The GBP8.7m (US$11.2m) kiln bag filter system will remove particulate matter and prevent it being emitted to the atmosphere. The new filter sys... |
Aggregate Industries opens new RMC plant in Birmingham, UK05 July 2023, Published under Cement NewsAggregate Industries has opened a second ready-mix concrete plant in Birmingham to increase its capacity and meet rapidly-growing demand in and around the UK’s second-largest city. The new, high-capacity site is located in Aston and will operate alongside its sister plant in Bordesley Green. Both sites are less than three miles from the city centre, making Aggregate Industries well placed to maintain its position as supplier of choice for major construction and infrastructure projects in B... |
Aggregate Industries targets cement tanker driver safety04 July 2023, Published under Cement NewsAggregate Industries and its Lafarge Cement business have partnered with hauliers Simon Gibson Transport and Lomas Distribution to produce a new training package to address a significant industry gap for cement tanker driver training. The new bespoke training, the Cement Drivers Skills Qualification (CDSQ), has received CPC accreditation and recognises the necessary specialist training and accreditation required for the niche skillset and will help raise safety standards Currently all d... |