Brimstone cement certified as ASTM C150
Brimstone, the US-based industrial decarbonisation start-up, has received third-party certification that its cement meets or exceeds ASTM C150 standards for ordinary Portlan...
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Ultra High Materials shortlisted for GCCA's 2nd Innovandi Open Challenge
Ultra High Materials of Reston, VA and Washington, USA, is one of 15 start-ups, shortlisted by the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA), from a global list of applicat...
Capsol Technologies awarded feasibility study for its end-of-pipe carbon capture technology
Norway-based carbon capture technology provider, Capsol Technologies, has been awarded a feasibility study for its CapsolEoP ® (end-of-pipe) carbon capture technology at a cem...
Heidelberg Materials announces closed-loop recycling project
As part of its decarbonisation strategy, Heidelberg Materials is pioneering a large-scale closed-loop recycling project called CIRCO₂BETON®. As a first in France, the company...
US/Puerto Rican Portland and blended shipments drop 7% in April
Portland and blended cement shipments, including imports, in the USA and Puerto Rico declined by 6.7 per cent YoY to 8.5Mt in April 2023, reports the US Geological Survey (USGS...
Oman Cement Co sees net profits rise 32% in 1H23
Oman Cement Co , which is listed on the Muscat Stock Exchange, has achieved a 32.02 per cent increase in net profit for the first half of 2023. According Oman Cement’s fina...
UltraTech commissions 1.3Mta expansion in West Bengal
UltraTech Cement has commissioned its 1.3Mta brownfield cement capacity expansion at Sonar Bangla , West Bengal, taking the plant’s total capacity to 3.3Mta. This marks comp...
Egypt's cement exports rise 33% in 5M23
Egypt’s cement exports climbed by 33 per cent during the first five months of 2023, according to a recent report by the Export Council for Building Materials, Refractory, and M...
Steppe Cement reports lower volumes in 1H23
Kazakhstan-based Steppe Cement Ltd has reported sales volumes of 749,034t of cement in the first half of 2023, down from 837,063t in the same period a year earlier. Revenue o...
China United Qingzhou Co launches China's largest CCUS project
On 28 June 2023, the China United Qingzhou Co Ltd’s 200,000tpa Carbon Dioxide Full Oxygen Combustion Enrichment and Purification Demonstration Project was successfully launched...
Holcim invests in start-ups for disruptive innovation
Holcim has invested as a limited partner in Suffolk Technologies’ US$110m venture capital fund, supporting start-ups at the forefront of disruptive innovation in the building...
Sinoma to build cement plant in Iraq
Sama Samawa Industries Commissioner revealed an agreement with Sinoma to establish a cement factory in Muthanna Governorate, southern Iraq. While stating that the production wi...
China Resources Cement Holdings issues profit warning
China Resources Cement Holdings Ltd has issued a profit warning for the six months ended 30 June 2023. According to the company, it expects to report a 63-38 per cent contracti...
CEMEX participates in UK Government’s Net Zero Council Meeting
CEMEX represented the cement and concrete sector at the latest meeting of the UK Government's high-level Net Zero Council, which took place at Artillery House in Whitehall on...
Dalmia's Umrangso modernisation to use KHD technology
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd (DCBL) has awarded Humboldt Wedag India a contract for a new 9500tpd clinker line at its plant in Umrangso , Assam, in northeastern India. The pr...
Colombian cement consumption up 2% in May
Colombia’s cement market expanded by 2.1 per cent YoY to 1.126Mt in May 2023 from 1.104Mt in May 2022, according to DANE, the country’s statistics office. Sales to ready-mix ...
Cimpor to install Portugal’s first Pyrorotor® alternative fuel solution
KHD has received a contract from Cimpor Portugal ( Oyak Group ) to modernise production line 7 at its Alhandra cement plant. The contract further strengthens the long-standi...
CEMEX's conservation programmes gain WHC certification
CEMEX programmes across ten locations worldwide have earned the Wildlife Habitat Council’s (WHC) Conservation Certification. The recognitions were unveiled during the WHC Con...
Chile’s cement demand contracts 4% in May 2023
Chilean cement dispatches declined 3.5 per cent YoY to 318,599t in May 2023 from 330,114t in May 2022, according to the national construction chamber, CChC. However, when compa...
Mixed bag of results for Taiwanese producers in June
Taiwanese cement producers have seen a mixed bag of results for June as well as the opening six months of the year. Universal Cement has reported revenue in June 2023 o...
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