Cement News tagged under: Heidelberg Materials
PCA announces 2023 Energy and Environment Award winners21 August 2023, Published under Cement NewsThe Portland Cement Association (PCA), which represents the majority of America’s cement manufacturers, has announced the winners of its 2023 Energy and Environment Awards. PCA Energy and Environment Awards are given to companies that have implemented outstanding environmental practices and have forged exemplary relationships with communities where their cement plants are located, says the PCA. Submissions from plants across the US were evaluated and recognised for environmental effort... |
Edmonton plant start CCUS system16 August 2023, Published under Cement NewsHeidelberg Materials' Edmonton cement plant is one key step closer to pouring the foundations of a full-scale carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) system that could help make its operations carbon neutral. Five years in the making, a pilot system will pull 300kg per day of carbon from the plant’s production facility. The new CCUS equipment started up on Tuesday and uses technology from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Project Director, Corwyn Bruce, told reporters that the compa... |
Kunda Nordic Tsement is now Heidelberg Materials Kunda AS08 August 2023, Published under Cement NewsKunda Nordic Tsement ( Heidelberg Materials ) has changed its name to Heidelberg Materials Kunda AS . The name change followed the roll-out of the Heidelberg Materials global brand and this is now reflected in Estonia with the new name for the company's Kunda operations. The company emphasises that this is, "The same colleagues, same know-how, experience, and expertise. But in a stronger position to drive the work for a sustainable society and a sustainable future." Heidelberg Materials... |
Edmonton plant orders PSCL's Ticketing Terminal and cloud technology02 August 2023, Published under Cement NewsHeidelberg Materials has chosen the PSCL’s Ticketing Terminal powered by FR8Works for its Edmonton cement plant's alternative fuels delivery project. The solution will integrate demand management from SAP schedule agreements with the physical process and remove administrative requirements locally by using FR8Works' cloud technologies. FR8Works' Ticketing Terminal provides integrates with weighing scales while using a cloud dashboard for easy export of records and electronic Bill of... |
HeidelbergCement Bangladesh reports profit in 1H2331 July 2023, Published under Cement NewsHeidelbergCement Bangladesh Ltd (HCBL) has earned a net profit of BDT478.02m (US$4.4m) in January –June 2023 against a loss of BDT205.29m in the same period of 2022, according to the company’s financial results. The profit was attributed to increased gross profit, sales, other income, and less finance expenses. However, warehouse, distribution and selling costs increased during the period. According to the company, total sales increased to BDT10.207bn, compared to BDT9.035bn in January–... |
Heidelberg Materials increases revenue by 5% in 1H2328 July 2023, Published under Cement NewsHeidelberg Materials reports that its r evenue rose by 5.3 per cent in the 1H23 to EUR10,473m (previous year: EUR9950m). Excluding scope and currency effects, the increase amounted to 8.5 per cent. Operating EBITDA reached EUR1787m up from EUR1525 in the 1H22 and EBITDA margin grew by 17.1 per cent in the 1H23 compared to 15.3 per cent in the 1H22. Operating EBIT totalled EUR1189m in the 1H23 up from EUR980m in the 1H22 or up 37.5 per cent LfL. “We have closed the first half of 20... |
BGF invests GBP3.4m in Nuada CCUS technology27 July 2023, Published under Cement NewsBGF, one of the largest and most experienced growth capital investors in the UK and Ireland, has invested GBP3.4m (US$4.37m/EUR3.76m) in Nuada (formerly MOF Technologies), a UK-based company that is redefining the capture of CO 2 from foundational and hard-to-abate industries. Nuada is working with leading cement manufacturers ( Buzzi SpA , Heidelberg Materials and Cementir Holding ) and is currently deploying a first-of-a-kind plant at Buzzi SpA's Monselice plant in northern I... |
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... |
The science of carbon removal and carbon sinks21 July 2023, Published under Cement NewsThis week Brimstone announced that it had achieved third-party certification of its carbon-negative cement that meets the ASTM C150 standard. Low-carbon and green cements are continuously being developed as alternatives to ordinary Portland cement (OPC). Decarbonising the cement and concrete sectors will need such innovation, but the science of carbon removal from cement and concrete and to what extent they can act as carbon sinks is still a debated subject. While carbon capture, utilis... |
GeZero CCUS project selected for EU Innovation funding17 July 2023, Published under Cement NewsThe EU Innovation Fund, one of the world’s largest funding programmes for innovative low-carbon technologies, has selected Heidelberg Materials ’ pioneering GeZero Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project for Grant Agreement Preparation. As part of the project, a completely new concept and operational design will be implemented in the company's German cement plant in Geseke . GeZero’s unique approach will model a solution for inland sites that are not in close proximity to the co... |