Kazakhstan accuses Uzbekistan of blocking Kazakh cement imports
The head of Kazakhstan’s Cement and Concrete Producers Association (QazCem), Erbol Akimbayev, has accused Uzbekistan of introducing a confidential order that effectively blocks...
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Bedeschi enhances Medcem Cement operations with advanced conveyor and shiploading systems
Bedeschi has strengthened its role as a leading provider of bulk material handling solutions with the supply of advanced conveyor systems and a high-capacity shiploader to Med...
Schneider Electric expands AI-powered maintenance partnership with Holcim Romania
Schneider Electric Romania is advancing the digital transformation of the cement industry through an expanded partnership with Holcim at its Alesd plant, where it is implemen...
Titan Zlatna Panega achieves sustainability milestone
Titan Zlatna Panega, part of the international Titan Group and a leading cement and building materials producer in Bulgaria, achieved a historic milestone in 2024—reaching a r...
Romania presses EU to review non-EU cement imports
Romania’s Minister of Economy, Radu Miruta, has asked the European Commission to assess potential restrictions on cement imports from non-EU countries, warning that local produ...
Holcim Croatia launches KOdeCO project to drive Net-Zero aims
Holcim has inaugurated the KOdeCO project at its Koromacno plant in Croatia, marking a major step in the company’s decarbonisation journey and the modernisation of cement p...
Ukraine’s Supreme Court backs CRH’s EUR100m cement plant acquisition
The Supreme Court of Ukraine has upheld the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine’s (AMCU) approval of CRH’s acquisition of two cement plants from Italy’s Buzzi for EUR100m, dism...
Sintek commissions major new facilities at Oyak Iskenderun
Sintek has successfully completed and commissioned two key facilities at the Oyak Iskenderun plant in a record 13 months, including a 100tph capacity horizontal mill and a ...
Turning waste concrete and CO2 into a binder
In July, Heidelberg Materials switched on the first continuous-mode enforced carbonation reactor at its Górazdze cement plant in Poland, developed under the EU’s Carbon4Mineral...
Heidelberg Materials to bring net-zero cement to Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina
Branimir Muidža, Heidelberg Materials ' director in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Croatia, has announced that the company’s pioneering net-zero carbon cement, evoZero ® , w...