Cement News tagged under: World Cement Association
American Society of Concrete Contractors joins WCA16 April 2024, Published under Cement NewsThe World Cement Association (WCA) has welcomed the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC) as affiliate member. ASCC, a non-profit association, includes approximately 720 companies and serves as the only US-wide concrete contractors’ trade association. ASCC strives to provide its members with unparalleled resources, knowledge, and advocacy, fostering excellence, innovation, and professionalism within the concrete construction sector. Through collaboration, education, and advocacy ... |
Wei Rushan becomes new WCA president01 November 2023, Published under Cement NewsThe World Cement Association has appointed Wei Rushan to be president of the association, replacing Founding President, Song Zhiping, on his retirement last week. Mr Wei has been president and executive director of China National Building Materials Co Ltd (CNBM), the world’s largest cement producer, since December 2022. Wei Rushan has extensive experience in strategy, investment and capital management, and transformation and development. He has had a range of senior roles within CNBM Grou... |
Huaxin Cement Co becomes WCA corporate member12 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsThe World Cement Association (WCA) has welcomed China-based Huaxin Cement Co as a corporate member. During its 116 years of operations, the Chinese building materials producer has established itself as a leading company in China as well as the global cement industry. For over two decades, Huaxin Cement has consistently maintained an average annual compound growth rate of 25 per cent, securing its place as one of the top 10 manufacturing companies in China. Huaxin Cement operates across ove... |
WCA welcomes Hoffmann Green Cement as corporate member12 September 2023, Published under Cement NewsHoffmann Green Cement Technologies has joined the World Cement Association (WCA) as its latest corporate member. Founded in 2014, Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies’ founders began their business with the intention to drive the construction sector's environmental evolution by producing the world’s first low-carbon cement and offer a replacement to traditional cement. This initiative was successful, and gained recognition by the French President, Emmanuel Macron, who celebrated its achieve... |
World Cement Association welcomes Carbon Upcycling Technologies03 November 2022, Published under Cement NewsCarbon Upcycling Technologies the World Cement Association’s (WCA) newest associate corporate member. The company is a waste and carbon utilisation specialist. WCA CEO, Ian Riley comments: “We are pleased to be welcoming Carbon Upcycling Technologies to WCA’s expanding network, and look forward to helping their business to scale.” “We are excited by the prospect of working with WCA members in reducing their emissions cost-effectively,” says Apoorv Sinha, CEO and co-founder of Carbon Up... |
WCA welcomes Maweni Limestone29 June 2022, Published under Cement NewsThe World Cement Association (WCA) announced that Maweni Limestone Ltd , a subsidiary of Huaxin Cement Group , has joined the organisation as a corporate member. Located in Tanzania, Maweni Limestone is one of east Africa’s leading cement producers. Acquired and rebuilt by Huaxin Cement Group in 2020, the company has an output of 1.5Mta of cement. WCA CEO, Ian Riley, comments: “We look forward to the contribution they will make to our efforts to share and improve best practice among me... |
Concrete-AI joins WCA16 March 2022, Published under Cement NewsThe World Cement Association has welcomed Concrete-AI as associate corporate member. Concrete-AI is based in Los Angeles, USA, and provides an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform that can reduce material costs in concrete by 5-10 per cent, and embodied CO 2 by up to 50 per cent without compromising performance. The cloud-based platform applies pioneering data analytics from machine learning to optimise concrete formulations by accurately predicting concrete’s ... |
Aeroborn joins WCA25 February 2022, Published under Cement NewsThe World Cement Association (WCA) has announced that Dutch clean tech company Aeroborn has joined its ranks as an associate corporate member. Aeroborn specialises in developing and commercialising carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technologies to accelerate progress towards a carbon neutral Europe by 2050, focussing on reducing net CO 2 emissions in four key sectors: construction, energy, process industry and transport. The firm’s proprietary technology turns waste CO 2 ... |
World Cement Association unanimously approves Climate Policy20 December 2021, Published under Cement NewsThe World Cement Association (WCA) has today announced the unanimous approval of its proposed Climate Policy and the re-election of CUCC Chairman Cui Xingtai to the Board of Directors at its fifth General Assembly, which took place virtually this month. Climate Policy The WCA's Climate Policy focusses on accelerating the decarbonisation of the cement and concrete industry by encouraging and supporting members to set ambitious targets on reducing CO 2 emissions, and fostering collaborat... |
Carbon Re joins WCA16 December 2021, Published under Cement NewsCarbon Re has joined the World Cement Association (WCA) as an associate corporate member. Carbon Re is the world’s first AI-powered platform developing solutions to cut costs and reduce emissions in the energy-intensive manufacturing sector. Its Delta Zero software enables cement plants to increase efficient fuel use when firing kilns, resulting in lower fuel costs and emissions reductions of up to 20 per cent. Ian Riley, CEO at WCA, comments: “Improving energy efficiency of production a... |