Rail freight forward thinking
With a steep reduction in UK train passenger numbers and a thinned-out passenger train timetable due to COVID-19, freight and logistics firm Freightliner has been exploring new...
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Cauldon plant invests GBP13m on reducing its carbon footprint
Construction has started at Lafarge Cement’s Cauldon plant, located in Staffordshire, on a GBP13m investment project to reduce its carbon footprint. The project will see ...
LafargeHolcim to recycle decommissioned GE Renewable Energy wind turbines
LafargeHolcim and GE Renewable Energy announced today an MoU to explore circular economy solutions to utilise materials from decommissioned wind turbines. Building on LafargeH...
UK builders merchant announces cement shortages
Travis Perkins is warning that around 40 per cent of its branch network does not have enough cement to supply UK customers. Travis Perkins Chief Operating Officer, Fran...
The Concrete Initiative becomes an official partner of the New European Bauhaus vision
The Concrete Initiative (TCI) has been approved as an Official Partner of the New European Bauhaus, an EU initiative and vision for a sustainable built environment based on the...
Tarmac rail freight to be powered by renewables
Tarmac and its rail freight partner DB Cargo UK have announced that the delivery of construction materials on a key strategic route will be powered entirely by 100 per cent re...
Intercem Engineering wins truck unloading order for Solnhofer Portland Zementwerke
Intercem Engineering has received a follow up order from Solnhofer Portland Zementwerke in Germany, after its recent completion of a new coal dust dosing system at the plant. ...
Heracles Group obtains EDP accreditation
LafargeHolcim-owned Heracles Group has become the first cement company in Greece to obtain Environmental Product Declarations (EDPs) for all cement types produced in its plants...
Claudius Peters wins Karsdorf clinker cooler order
CRH-owned Opterra's Karsdorf cement plant in Germany has chosen Claudius Peters to support the plant’s next step towards sustainable cement production with the newest ETA co...
HeidelbergCement aims to have the first carbon-neutral cement plant
HeidelbergCement has announced its intention to upgrade its plant on the Swedish island of Gotland to become the world’s first carbon-neutral cement plant. The install...