Cement News tagged under: UK
Holcim expands digital customer platform21 September 2022, Published under Cement NewsHolcim is expanding its proprietary digital customer platform, ConcreteDirect, from North America to Europe and Latin America. This expansion of the comprehensive digital platform for construction job site professionals offers a seamless customer experience from France, Germany and the UK, all the way to Colombia, Ecuador and El Salvador. The platform connects all relevant jobsite professionals on a construction site with Holcim’s teams to best coordinate their tasks with tailored real-tim... |
Mexican ambassador praises climate action work at CEMEX's Rugby plant15 September 2022, Published under Cement NewsCEMEX welcomed HE Josefa González Blanco Ortiz Mena, Mexican ambassador to the United Kingdom, to its flagship UK cement plant, based in Rugby, Warwickshire, on Wednesday 14 September. The ambassador travelled to Rugby to find out more about the work CEMEX carries out in the UK and the materials it produces for key construction projects nationally. In particular, she wanted to understand how the UK is contributing to CEMEX's global climate action strategy, Future in Action, and the bu... |
Lafarge Cement signs SRF deal with Willshee's15 September 2022, Published under Cement NewsUK-based Willshee’s Waste & Recycling has signed a multi-year contract to supply carbon-offset fuel to Lafarge Cement. Following Lafarge’s investment in an alternative fuel platform, operated by its waste division, Geocycle, Willshee’s will supply Lafarge Cement's Cauldon plant with around 15,000t of solid recovered fuel (SRF) each year, equivalent to three or four deliveries each day, five days a week. The SRF will come from Willshee’s state-of-the-art materials handling facility in Sw... |
Hoffmann Green signs exclusive deal with Cemblend15 September 2022, Published under Cement NewsFrance-based Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies , a specialist producer of extremely low-carbon cements, has signed its first partnership agreement in the UK with Cemblend, a supplier of customised cement powder mixes to the UK cementitious industry. From the second half of 2022, Hoffmann Green will supply Cemblend with its clinker-free, decarbonised cements - H-IONA, H-UKR and H-EVA - which Cemblend will then distribute to its customers in the UK and Ireland. According to Hoffmann Green... |
Mississippi Lime acquires Singleton Birch12 September 2022, Published under Cement NewsSingleton Birch has been acquired by Mississippi Lime Co (MLC), one of the US’s oldest independent suppliers of lime products, for an undisclosed sum. Mississippi Lime Co, an HBM Holdings company headquartered in St Louis, Missouri, is one of the leading global suppliers of high-calcium lime products and technical solutions. The family-owned business, which has a history stretching back over a century, operates the largest lime facility in the Americas. Paul Hogan, president and ch... |
Energy crisis - plant closure warning09 September 2022, Published under Cement NewsCEMBUREAU this week called for urgent action at a European and national level to help tackle the rising cost of energy, which it warns “will lead to widespread plant closures across the EU, creating a crisis in the construction supply chain.” Some EU member states have seen their electricity prices increase 10-fold compared to last year. According to CEMBUREAU, 1t of cement requires around 110kwh of electricity to produce. With electricity prices now between EUR700-1000mwh in several EU memb... |
MPA urges UK government to alleviate energy burden02 September 2022, Published under Cement NewsThe Mineral Products Association (MPA) has written to the UK Chancellor, Nadhim Zahawi, calling for urgent action to tackle the country’s energy crisis and alleviate the burden on its construction industry. Four steps the Treasury could take have been identified by the MPA, including allowing temporary deferral of VAT payments, to reinstate or replace the red diesel rebate to cut fuel duty, extend the freeze on Aggregates Levy indexation beyond April 2023, and take measures to tackle costs f... |
Breedon extends rail infrastructure01 September 2022, Published under Cement NewsA joint initiative between Breedon Group , Network Rail and the Welsh government has brought a disused freight yard back to life, resulting in lower CO 2 emissions, less road traffic and reduced operating costs. The Llandudno Junction freight yard, located near the main Penrhyn Quarry of Breedon subsidiary Welsh Slate, is expected to handle up to 260,000t of materials each year with typical freight trains carrying 1500t of material, compared to 28t for a truck. The first freight train l... |
Origen shortlisted for UK government CCUS funding30 August 2022, Published under Cement NewsThe UK government has named ZerCaL250, a collaboration using Origen's zero-carbon tech and Singleton Birch’s lime production know-how, as one of 13 projects shortlisted nationally for the second phase of its carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) cluster process. It is also one of eight industrial carbon capture (ICC) projects in the government’s East Coast Cluster, supported by zero carbon partnership Zero Carbon Humber. All 13 projects are in the running for government funding. ... |
Hanson UK receives Ketton and Ribblesdale EVs23 August 2022, Published under Cement NewsHanson UK ( HeidelbergCement group ) has taken delivery of two fully electric vans, which are the first step towards meeting its sustainability commitment to its van fleet being fully electric or hybrid by 2025. The move follows the completion of successful trials last year and the new vehicles will be site-based at our Ketton and Ribblesdale cement works. Christopher Sharman, workshop manager at Ketton, was the first to drive around the site in one of the electric vans highlig... |