Vicat reports 4% uptick in 1Q sales
Sales in Europe, which account for 41 per cent of the total, edged up 1.2 per cent (-0.9 per cent LfL) to EUR381m from EUR376m in the 1Q25. While activity in Switzerland and It...
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Tata Steel IJmuiden and Ecocem partner on steel slag SCM development
Tata Steel Nederland and Ecocem have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand collaboration on the use of steelmaking slags as supplementary cementitious materials (SCM...
Cementir reports 7% fall in revenue in 1Q26
Cementir announced in the first quarter of 2026, the group experienced a 7.1 per cent revenue decline to EUR344.1m, driven by adverse weather affecting European and Turkish o...
Loesche to supply slag grinding plant for Ferro Duo SCM project in Germany
Loesche has secured a contract from Ferro Duo GmbH for the supply of a slag grinding plant for a new SCM production site in Duisburg, Germany. According to Loesche, the proj...
Airvault and the new economics of European cement production
The commissioning of Heidelberg Materials’ new kiln line at its Airvault cement plant in western France marks the completion of one of the largest recent cement modernisati...
Fives and NOC Energy partner on electrified heat technology for clay calcination
Fives Group and NOC Energy have announced a partnership to test high-temperature thermal battery technology for cement and supplementary cementitious material (SCM) production ...
Heidelberg Materials reports lower 1Q26 earnings
Heidelberg Materials reported lower first-quarter earnings for 2026 as adverse weather conditions in Europe and the northeastern USA, alongside geopolitical uncertainty and h...
Holcim deploys carbon-storing concrete technology in German logistics project
Holcim has partnered with Swedish startup Paebbl and contractor Goldbeck on the first commercial-scale application of Paebbl’s carbon-storing supplementary cementitious materia...
New leadership at VDZ
The General Assembly of the German Cement Works Association, known as VDZ, has elected Dr Dirk Spenner as its new president. He takes over from Christian Knell, who led the org...
Heidelberg Materials commissions new kiln line at Airvault plant
Heidelberg Materials has commissioned a new kiln line at its Airvault cement plant in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, replacing two semi-dry clinker lines with a modern dry-proce...