HeidelbergCement and RWTH Aachen to research 'CO2MIN'
HeidelbergCement and Aachen University are setting up a three-year project to investigate absorbing CO 2 from flue gas using olivine and basalt. Funded by EUR3m from the German ...
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LafargeHolcim opens Construction Development Lab in Morocco
LafargeHolcim has opened a new Construction Development Lab (CDL) in the Moroccan city of Casablanca.
USA: scientists develop programmable cement
Scientists at Rice University, Texas, USA, have decoded the kinetic properties of cement and developed a way to "program" the microscopic, semi-crystalline particles within.
Kenya: Savannah Cement, Kenyatta University collaboration
Kenyan cement producer Savannah Cement has signed an agreement with Kenyatta University to collaborate in areas such as innovation, student internships, joint research activitie...
Cement to light roads
Dr José Carlos Rubio, researcher at Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo in Morelia, Mexico, has found a creative solution to light streets and highways in the eveni...
Cementos Argos inaugurates Innovation Center, Colombia
Cementos Argos yesterday inaugurated its Innovation Center, based at the EAFIT University, Colombia, underlining the company commitment towards productive, competitive and susta...
Argos plans innovation centre, Colombia
Cementos Argos is planning to develop an innovation centre in Colombia, covering an area of 4807m2, at a cost of COP23.70bn (US$12.73m). The centre will be carried out in partne...
TernaCem – a new alternative binder concept
In an effort to tap the further potential for CO2 reduction, HeidelbergCement Technology Center (HTC) has been working on the development of alternative binders and and it now b...
FLSmidth secures EIB funding for R&D investments
FLSmidth has signed an EUR125m loan agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB). The five-year-bullet loan will finance FLSmidth's global research and development programm...
Lafarge to invest BRL1bn in Brazil over next five years
Lafarge is to invest BRL1bn (US$500m) in Brazil in the five years to 2018, according to the group’s chairman and chief executive Bruno Lafont.