Holcim joins Circularity Task Force at COP28
Holcim has become a founding member of the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s (SMI) Circularity Task Force, launched at COP28 in Dubai, to accelerate the world’s shift to a circul...
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CEMEX welcomes BS 8500 concrete standard
CEMEX has welcomed the introduction of the newly revised standard for concrete, BS 8500, with a two-day CEMEX UK ReadyMix Commercial Conference for key stakeholders across the C...
GCCA releases its Cement Industry Net Zero Progress Report 2023
The Global Cement & Concrete Association (GCCA) has released its Cement Industry Net Zero Progress Report 2023 providing an update on global action and progress by the GCCA and ...
Swiss team draws on archives to develop low-carbon binders
A team of experts from EPFL (Switzerland), ETH Zurich and a Geneva-based architecture firm has developed a new type of non-reinforced concrete made from stone offcuts. Their met...
Cement demand in Spain down 7% in October
Cement consumption in Spain declined 6.7 per cent in October 2023 to 1,171,629t when compared with October 2022, according to Oficemen, the Spanish cement association. Exports w...
Heidelberg Materials launches its evoZero brand
Under its new evoZero brand, Heidelberg Materials is introducing the world’s first carbon captured net-zero cement to customers in Europe. evoZero achieves its net-zero footprin...
Taiwan Cement expands its European footprint
Turkey's Army Pension Fund, OYAK , has reached a preliminary agreement to sell its stakes in two cement companies to Taiwan Cement Corp for a total of about EUR673m. OYAK is sel...
First Graphene successfully completes Phase 2 Trial at Breedon Cement
First Graphene has successfully completed the second phase of graphene-enhanced cement trials in collaboration with Breedon Cement Ltd at the cement producer’s Hope Cement Works...
Aggregate Industries to use waste ceramics as alternative fuel
Thousands of tonnes of waste ceramics from one of the UK’s largest ceramic tile manufacturers will be recycled to make cement as part of a new initiative from Aggregates Industr...
CEMEX Europe makes strong progress with EPD certificate roll-out
Global building materials supplier CEMEX is proud to announce that it will soon have obtained Type III Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certificates for the cements it pr...