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The 9th International VDZ Congress opens

07 November 2024, Published under Cement News

Christian Knell, president of the German Cement Works Association (VDZ), officially opened the 9 th International VDZ Congress with over 600 participants in Düsseldorf and called for government support to decarbonise the industry. "The cement and concrete industry is probably undergoing its biggest transformation ever. Step by step, we are decarbonising our value chain”, emphasised the VDZ President. “There is no alternative, we must deliver a net-zero cement and concrete value chain and w...

Cemex receives funding for Rüdersdorf CCUS project

23 October 2024, Published under Cement News

A consortium comprised of Cemex and Linde, a leading global industrial gases and engineering company, has been selected to receive EUR157m (US$169.3m) in funding from the EU Innovation Fund for a pioneering CO 2 capture project at Cemex’s Rüdersdorf cement plant in Germany. The project, Cemex ’s largest planned carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) project to date, aims to capture 1.3Mta of CO 2 from Rüdersdorf’s cement production, ultimately decarbonising the site by 2030. At Rüders...

Rohrdorfer’s carbon road map

15 October 2024, Published under Cement News

While cement plants in Germany are expected to become climate neutral by 2045, in Bavaria this deadline is set at 2040. Local cement producer Südbayerischer Portland Zementwerk Gebr Wiesböck & Co is implementing the decarbonisation road map of its parent company, the Rohrdorfer Group to meet the ambitious deadline. By Muriel Bal, ICR Research, UK The Südbayerischer Portland Zementwerk Gebr Wiesböck & Co is implementing a range of measures to decarbonise its operations in time fo...

Holcim replaces cooler at Beckum plant

11 October 2024, Published under Cement News

Holcim (Deutschland) successfully completed a major project and celebrated in style at the Beckum cement plant , Westphalia, Germany with the so-called cooler baptism.  From July to early September, the oldest pipe cooler still in operation (nicknamed Dino) was dismantled and replaced by a new, significantly more efficient cooler. The work went according to plan and without a single accident. The investments in the plant are just the beginning of the modernisation and decarbonisation in...

Heidelberg Materials acquires leading recycling company in southern Germany

17 September 2024, Published under Cement News

Heidelberg Materials has acquired SER Group, a leading integrated company in the demolition and construction materials recycling business, based in Heilbronn, southern Germany. With an annual revenue of around EUR50m and three modern recycling sites, SER Group is the market leader in the greater Heilbronn area and employs more than 220 people. The acquisition comes shortly after the take-over of Berlin-based RWG Holding GmbH in November 2022 and highlights Heidelberg Materials’ focus on ...

FEhS Institute welcomes EU Commission 2024-29 guidelines

12 September 2024, Published under Cement News

The Germany-based FEhS Building Materials Institute has welcomed the EU Commission's 2024-29 policy guidelines regarding new legislation on the circular economy to improve the use of alternative raw materials and optimise public procurement. "The FEhS Building Materials Institute considers the planned measures in the EU Commission's Political Guidelines 2024-2029 to be trendsetting. In many respects, they are in line with the FEhS Institute's core demands for sustainable resource managemen...

Building the CO2 infrastructure for Germany’s cement sector

09 September 2024, Published under Cement News

The decarbonisation of the cement and lime industries requires the construction of infrastructure to enable the transport of the captured CO 2 to its storage or utilisation sites. In a new study, VDZ analyses the situation in Germany and highlights the requirements for the future. B y Dennis Behrouzi, Manuel Mohr and Dr Johannes Ruppert, VDZ, Germany Figure 1: CO2 capture in the cement industry – examples of projects in Germany (© VDZ) Cement and lime production, as wel...

Vecoplan focusses on digitalisation in new shredder features

05 September 2024, Published under Cement News

Germany-based Vecoplan AG is tapping into the increasing demand for an improved performance of shredders and the use of digitalisation in their operation. “Many machine parameters that workers formerly set manually can now be managed automatically,” says Paul Mockenhaupt, who is responsible for digitalisation at Vecoplan. “For us it’s becoming more and more important to equip our machines with intelligence so that customers have better support.” With this in mind, Mr Mockenhaupt and his t...

Cemex acquires recycling company as part of its circularity mission

04 September 2024, Published under Cement News

On 3 September 2024, Cemex announced it had acquired a majority stake in RC-Baustoffe Berlin GmbH & Co KG, a Berlin-based recycling company and part of the Heim Group. The company processes mineral construction, demolition and excavation materials (CDEM).   The recycling company will be integrated with Regenera, Cemex’s business that offers circularity solutions which extend the life cycle of construction materials by reusing them in value-added products. The acquired recycling facility...

Buzzi sees weak regional volume performance in 1H24

07 August 2024, Published under Cement News

Buzzi Spa signalled that unfavourable weather conditions and falling sales contributed to regional performances being slightly down in the 2Q24, leading to lower cement volumes in the 1H24. Cement and ready-mix concrete sales in Italy declined in the first six months of 2024 by 5.9 per cent and 6.4 per cent, respectively, due to the abundant rainfall across the country during the spring months. Net sales in Italy came in at EUR414.4m, down 2.3 per cent  from EUR424.1m in the 1H23. EBITD...