CEMEX announces CO2 emissions reduction progress in Europe
Following increased demand for its more sustainable product lines, CEMEX has seen sales of its cement which provides the greatest reduction in CO 2 emissions increase to now...
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Lafarge Canada signs steel slag agreement with CarbiCrete
CarbiCrete has entered into an agreement with Lafarge Canada ( Holcim ) for the processing of steel slag, the key material in its carbon-negative concrete block technology. T...
Saint-Gobain signs power agreement in South Africa
Saint-Gobain has signed a renewable electricity supply agreement (power purchase agreement or PPA) with CVE, an independent French renewable energy producer, to secure about 1...
CTP Team selected to supply WHRS for Eskisehir cement plant
Enerjisa Enerji and ÇIMSA ( Sabanci Group ) have selected CTP Team and CTN Group to implement a waste heat recovery system (WHRS) at the cement producer's Eskisehir plant i...
GCCA launches Innovandi Entrepreneur Network
The Global Cement & Concrete Association (GCCA) has launched the third programme in its Innovandi brand, the Innovandi Entrepreneur Network. The network brings together start-u...
Carbon2Business project wins two awards at COP28
Holcim has received two awards at COP28 in Dubai, UAE, for its “Carbon2Business” project in Lägerdorf, Germany, in recognition of the scalability and breakthrough innovation of...
Pakistan’s cement industry utilisation expected to hover at 57% in FY24
Pakistan’s cement dispatches (ie, local sales plus exports including clinker) over the 5MFY23-24 period (July-November 2023) indicate total dispatches of 47Mt for the full fisc...
SaltX Technology and Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd begin EAC pre-study
SaltX Technology and Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd have started initial work on a pilot plant for electric cement production in India. With the collaboration having been init...
IKN makes progress with Schwenk kiln project
IKN is currently upgrading the existing kiln at Schwenk Zement’ s Allmendingen cement works in Germany. A recent project update reveals that kiln parts with a diameter of 6m a...
PCA welcomes Concrete and Asphalt Innovation Act
The US cement association, PCA, has welcomed this week's introduction of Senators Coons and Tillis’ “Concrete and Asphalt Innovation Act” and its intended goals of advancing ...
Sanghi Industries announces changes at the top
India-based Sanghi Industries Ltd has announced a number of resignations from its board of directors. Ravi Sanghi tendered his resignation as chairman and managing director, wi...
Assessing the value of concrete and cement as a carbon sink
This week, the Mineral Products Association (MPA) prepared a 112-page report for the UK Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) to ascertain a two-tier recarbonation...
Colombia's cement market contracts 1% in October
Cement dispatches in Colombia slipped 0.8 per cent YoY to 1.114Mt in October 2023 from 1.123Mt in October 2022, reported the country's statistics office, DANE. Of the total O...
Sinoma to build new clinker line in Belgium
Sinoma International Engineering has won a EUR218m (US$238m) contract with Holcim to build a 1.68Mta clinker cement production line in Belgium. The contract covers engineeri...
Shree Cement makes move into mining sector
Shree Cement is reportedly planning to bid for lithium mining rights in Jammu and Kashmir, as part of the company’s venture into the mining sector. According to Reuters, an e...
Italy's cement output falls 8% in September
Cement production in Italy declined by eight per cent YoY in September 2023, according to the Italian concrete association, Federbeton. When compared with the 2015-baseline ind...
TNO report evaluates energy requirements of EU cement sector in 2050
TNO has produced a study for CEMBUREAU that investigates the energy requirements in the European cement industry by 2050. In the coming years, the energy needs of the EU cement...
Chile's cement producers see 7% drop in October dispatches
Chilean cement dispatches declined by 7.1 per cent to 324,460t in October 2023 from 349,388t in October 2022, according to the Chilean construction chamber, CChC. In the firs...
Catch4climate project completes construction of 60m preheater tower
Scherr+Klimke AG build 60m Catch4climate preheater tower in Germany A new milestone for the pilot project "Catch4climate" has been achieved with the completion of ...
thyssenkrupp to supply new line to GCC Odessa plant
GCC America has commissioned thyssenkrupp Polysius North America to build a 3000tpd clinker production line, which can be expanded to 3500tpd, at its Odessa plant in Texas....
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