Breedon delivery confirms commitment to Welsh growth
Breedon Group has recently received its first cargo of dredged sand at its new wharfside at Associated British Port's Port of Cardiff in Wales, UK. According to the compa...
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Cemento Polpaico closes two concrete plants
Chile-based Cemento Polpaico announced the closure of two concrete plants in Quilín and Renca, Metropolitan Region, as well as the temporary halt of operations at the Aconcag...
Implications of EU's call to ban climate-neutral offsetting
The EU institutions finalised a new law on 19 September 2023 to enact a sweeping ban to combat erroneous claims of sustainability. Companies will be prevented from 'greenwashin...
Italy’s cement market contracted 9% in 2022
Total consumption in Italy was down by 6.7 per cent YoY to 19.07Mt in 2022 from 20.45Mt, according to Federbeton. Of this total 1.944Mt was imported, up 15.1 per cent YoY from ...
Cement 2 Zero project completes trial melt
The first trial melt has been completed as part of the innovative Cement 2 Zero project, which aims to develop the world’s first zero-emissions cement on an industrial scale. T...
Cementos Molins completes Sant Vicenc dels Horts modernisation
Cementos Molins celebrated the inauguration of its upgraded facilities in Sant Vicenç dels Horts , Barcelona, Spain, on 5 October 2023. The event witnessed the presenc...
Crafters Polypropylene Packages achieves record AD*STAR production
By producing 199,000 AD*STAR block bottom sacks in 24 hours on a single conversion line, Crafters Polypropylene Packages (PVT) Ltd has achieved a production record that has nev...
Jan Weckes becomes MD of SCHADE Lagertechnik
Jan Weckes is the new MD at SCHADE Lagertechnik Jan Weckes is taking on the leadership of SCHADE Lagertechnik, who has appointed him as its new managing director. ...
Lucky Cement receives the 38th Corporate Excellence Award
Lucky Cement Ltd has won the Management Association of Pakistan’s (MAP) Top Corporate Excellence Award 2023 in the Industrial Category amongst all corporate sector organisat...
Italian cement production slips 1% in July
Italy’s cement producers decreased their output by one per cent in July 2023 when compared with the previous year, according to the national construction chamber, Federbeton. W...
UltraTech Cement and Adani Cement alerted to Heidelberg's Indian divestment rumour
UltraTech Cement ( Aditya Birla Group ), and the country’s second-largest cement producer, Adani Cement, may join the race along with Parth Jindal-led JSW Cement to acquire...
Qatar market to expand by a CAGR of 5% in 2022-32
The Qatar cement market is expected to see a CAGR of 5.2 per cent in terms of value between 2022-32, reaching US$1550.9m by the end of the period. Much of this growth is being...
CEMEX returns to Mexican debt capital markets
CEMEX has announced the successful pricing on 3 October 2023 of its sustainability-linked long-term notes for an aggregate principal amount of MXN6bn (US$332.6m), a transacti...
Titan America wins five awards at ConcreteWorks 2023
Titan America picked up five awards at the National Ready Mix Concrete Association (NRMCA)'s ConcreteWorks 2023 event held in Nashville this week. The company was recognised ...
GGBS slag cuts 408Mt of CO2 from UK's OPC production in 2022
In 2022, around 38.5Mt of ferrous slag were produced in the European Union and the UK. Approximately, 99 per cent of this could be used primarily as a building material and in ...
Cementos Molins releases its 2022 integrated report
Cementos Molins has released its 2022 integrated report, which shows that the Spanish multinational cement producer has reduced its clinker factor to 71 per cent and GHG emis...
Pioneer Cement's profit rises by 149% in FY23
Pioneer Cement Ltd (PIOC) posted a profit after tax of PKR2.61bn (US$9.07m) in FY23 versus PKR1.05bn in the previous financial year, the company said in a statement to the Pa...
RHI Magnesita completes acquisition of P-D Refractories
RHI Magnesita has completed the acquisition of the Germany, Czech Republic and Slovenia-based refractory businesses of the Preiss-Daimler Group (P-D Refractories). P-D Refracto...
First Graphene reports positive results from graphene-enhanced cement trials
First Graphene has announced positive results from the initial phase of the company’s graphene-enhanced cement trials in the UK. Approximately 600t of graphene-enhanced cement ...
JSW Cement begins EV pilot project
India-based JSW Cement has acquired five electric trucks from the Murugappa Group as part of a pilot project to transition to the use of EV trucks. According to JSW Cement, t...
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