MCi Carbon to provide CCU plant for RHI Magnesita
Refractories specialist RHI Magnesita has announced an industrial-scale carbon capture project with MCi Carbon. RHI Magnesita will be MCi Carbon’s first global commercial custo...
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Hetauda Cement to resume production in February
Following closure for three months due to a coal shortage, Nepal-based Hetauda Cement Industries Ltd is expected to resume production at its plant in Makanwanpur in the fi...
Holcim partners with Greentown Labs to accelerate climate tech for sustainable building
Holcim is entering a partnership with Greentown Labs, the largest incubator of climate tech start-ups in North America, to accelerate open innovation for the decarbonisation ...
Heidelberg Materials UK obtains BES 6001 standard
Heidelberg Materials UK has become the first building materials company to achieve certification to the updated BES 6001 standard across its business. The Framework Standard...
Ambuja Cements to invest INR14bn in 6Mta Telangana plant
Ambuja Cements will invest INR14bn (US$168.3m) in the construction of a 6Mta cement plant in Telangana, India. The plant will be built on a 70-acre plot, said the company in ...
Sinoma Overseas Development wins 28.2MW solar power project
Sinoma Overseas Development (SODC) has clinched a deal to spearhead the inaugural phase of a 28.2MW solar power EPC project for Turkey's LIMAK Cement Group . This first phase ...
Red Sea crisis on Pakistan’s cement industry
Pakistan closely monitors the Red Sea crisis as it could disturb the movement of cement export cargoes to the USA and Europe as well as affect coal imports at Pakistani ports. ...
Decarbonised Cement and Concrete Alliance to accelerate low-carbon solutions
The Decarbonised Cement and Concrete Alliance (DC2) is a new US-based coalition dedicated to growing awareness around policies that will accelerate the adoption of novel carbon...
Pakistani cement dispatches see 5% uptick in December
Cement dispatches in Pakistan were up five per cent YoY in December 2023, settling at 4.1Mt compared to the same period in the previous year. According to a report from AHL ...
Moroccan cement association welcomes Novacim membership
The Assembly General of L’Association Profesionelle des Cimentiers (APC) has ratified the decision of its Board of Directors to welcome Novacim , the new Moroccan producer of ...
Southern Province appoints new chairman and deputy
Saudi Arabia-based Southern Province Cement Co has appointed Saad Bin Abdulaziz Alkroud as chairman of the Board of Directors. Mansour bin Abdulaziz Al Saghir was named as vi...
Votorantim and Atlas Renewable energy sign 100MW solar agreement
Atlas Renewable Energy, an international leader in providing renewable energy solutions for corporations, and Votorantim Cimentos have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)...
Holcim Algeria exports see 7% uplift in 2023
Lafarge Algeria ( Holcim ) exported 3.4Mt of cement and clinker in 2023, up seven per cent from 3.2Mt in 2022. The company achieved an export market share of 30 per cent and ...
Rugby Cement hosts UK Minister for energy efficiency
Lord Callanan, the UK Minister for Energy Efficiency and Green Finance, visited the Rugby cement works in Warwickshire on the 12 January to gain an insight into the actions nee...
Heracles acquires solid waste management and recycling firm
WATT Recycling a solid waste management and recycling company has been acquired by Heracles Group of Greece. With this acquisition, Heracles Group ( Holcim ) incorporates two...
Redecam wins ESP to baghouse conversion project
Arabian Cement Co is converting its electrostatic precipitators to state-of-the-art bag filters for dust emissions control. The Egyptian cement producer has joined forces wit...
Rohrdorfer trials flat film recycled packaging material
After saving 3500kg of plastic in the packaging of concrete screed last year, SAKRET Trockenbeton Munich is now tackling the issue of pallet packaging at Rohrdorfer , Germany....
Crown Cement kicks start its sixth unit in Bangladesh
Md Mozharul Islam, senior general manager and company secretary of Crown Cement, has announced that the company was able to finally start commercial production of its sixth u...
Turkish exports to Azerbaijan down 3% in 2023
Turkey’s cement exports to Azerbaijan declined by almost three per cent to US$50.9m in 2023, compared to the previous year, reports Azernews. According to Turkey’s Ministry of...
Cement prices fall in Pakistan
Cement prices across Pakistan have declined over the last week, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, bringing welcome relief to builders and developers across the co...
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