Olive pits to reduce asphalt CO2 emissions
Barcelona City Council as joined BIT Habitat Foundation and BIMSA in the "Street of the 21st Century" programme which includes a project that centres on the use of biochar, whic...
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Indian cement firms given first legally-binding carbon intensity limits
India has introduced its first legally binding carbon intensity limits for heavy industry, a move expected to reshape the country’s cement sector and its competitiveness in expo...
A buildings perspective on decarbonising concrete Premium
Concrete represents the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the construction industry. Reducing its carbon footprint is challenging but not impossible as long a...
Can CBAM create a level playing field for CO2 emissions?
This week, Eurostat released the EU cement industry statistics for 2022. There has been little change from 2021 when EU27 imports of cement and clinker totalled around 9.5Mt, bu...
FICEM and GCCA Seminar sets out Latin American Net Zero goal
FICEM and the Global Cement & Concrete Association (GCCA) hosted an online seminar on 'Acceleration of Net Zero: cement and concrete' on 22 February 2023 to outline the progress...
Lafarge Cement fully converts Brookfield Cement Plant to OneCem
Lafarge Canada has announced the full transformation of its Brookfield Cement Plant in Nova Scotia to a greener portfolio. From now on, the plant will only produce reduced carbo...
Winning carbon reduction strategies Premium
At its Santa Rosa plant in Colombia, CEMEX is harnessing the plant’s proximity to suppliers of alternative raw materials and hydropower sources to reduce the clinker factor in i...
Airvault modernisation underway
The first stone of the Ciments Calcia cement plant modernisation project at Airvault , France, was officially laid on 5 October 2022 in the presence of Jon Morrish, general mana...
Holcim orders 10 Hyliion Hypertrucks
Holcim US announced it is working with Hyliion Holdings to leverage the company's innovative electrified powertrain truck platform to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and accel...
The cement sector can't sit back on reducing CO2 emissions
This week Credit Suisse published a revealing study entitled 'Global Infrastructure and Construction', which looks into the current state of the global cement industry's efforts...