Cement

Heidelberg Materials has been selected for funding of up to US$500 million to advance industrial-scale CCUS at its new state-of-the-art cement plant in Mitchell, Indiana, USA

Company close to obtaining Type III Environmental Product Declarations for all cements

Fast-growing ECOPact and ECOPlanet brands meeting sustainability needs and driving profitable growth

Peak Cluster to provide £180 million per year economic boost from latter part of this decade

Wei Rushan succeeds Association’s founding President Song Zhiping who retired last week

Rt Hon Alun Cairns MP returns to hear more about company’s roadmap to net zero by 2050

Specialist networking platform launched in collaboration with The World Cement Network

Major step towards full-scale carbon capture, utilization and storage in Eastern Europe

Acquisition of integrated cement plant in Central Java from local cement producer PT Semen Grobogan

Cemex chief executive Fernando A. González succeeds Jan Jenisch as president of the GCCA 

Measures aim to boost UK competitiveness by compensating for high electricity network costs

Innovative steel and cement industry collaboration scales up zero-emission cement trials

Clusters to explore depleted gas field carbon storage solution for major cement and lime plants

New Hub aims to accelerate and scale up low-carbon, circular and energy-efficient building

Coomtech Clean Technologies have appointed Barry Mellor as vice-president sales/commercial

Tarmac host visit to Scotland’s only cement plant for 47 members of the Concrete Society CouncilIN late July, Tarmac’s Dunbar plant in East Lothian hosted a visit for 47 members of the Concrete Society Council.

Portfolio optimization in West Africa continues with sale of cement terminal in Banjul to B5 Plus

Decarbonization research project aims to maximize SCMs in cement composition via digitalization

Companies make further progress towards world’s first fully solar-powered cement plant

Company planning to roll out additional carbon mitigation projects with innovative carbon tech firm

Multi-million-pound bag filter installation set to improve performance and reduce emissions

New tracker to help monitor worldwide decarbonization efforts in the cement industry  

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects in Belgium, France and Croatia selected 

Heidelberg Materials’ GeZero project aims to capture and store 700,000 tonnes of carbon emissions annually 

Pioneering project in France aims to produce low-carbon cement from demolished concrete

Companies join forces to develop new range of innovative low-carbon concrete products 

Dunbar cement plant re-routes popular National Cycle Network path for the local community 

European Union awards Cemex €4.4 million grant for innovative waste-to-fuel technology

Company celebrates 150th anniversary with ceremony in Heidelberg under the motto ‘150 years of progress’ 

Bulk tanker fuelled by hydrotreated vegetable oil deployed as part of Lafarge Cement business

State-of-the-art plant boosts local production levels and significantly reduces CO2 emissions

Cemex cement plant in Colombia becomes first to achieve water self-sufficiency in the region 

UN Secretary General António Guterres backs cement and concrete leaders in call for action 

Aggregate Industries appoint Thierry Davila as plant manager at Cauldon Cement plant

‘Improving Profitability in a Time of Multiple Global Crises’ will be the theme of this year’s annual conference

Production of calcined clay at Bussac-Forêt to allow launch of new range of low-carbon cements

Scotland’s only cement works hosts visit by Martin Whitfield MSP and Daniel Johnson MSP

Company says sizeable development will support county’s progress towards Net Zero

Company introduces range of green cement that delivers more than a 30% reduction in carbon

Companies conduct decarbonization study to cut cement industry emissions by at least 18%

Companies to build world’s first large-scale carbon capture facility in a cement plant

Company set to generate renewable energy with recent Government green energy scheme

Government commits to invest in construction of first net-zero CCUS facility in the cement industry

Mannok and FLSmidth deliver significant step forward in the decarbonization of cement production

Government’s Phase-2 cluster sequencing programme marks another step forward for Padeswood CCS project

Company commits to individual scope 1 and 2 targets as well as a scope 3 target for 2030

ETFuels to transform CO2 from Alicante cement plant into green fuels for use in the shipping industryCEMEX have signed an agreement with green fuels producer ETFuels, to transform CO2 from CEMEX’s Alicante cement plant in Spain into green fuels.

Company also expects to exceed its 2030 European CO2 emissions reduction aspiration

Heirloom and Leilac partner to bring lime-based direct air capture technology to market

CEMEX, Sandia Labs, and Synhelion to scale solar energy technology to produce cement

Company to deliver up to 500,000 tonnes of low-carbon calcined clay cement per year

Innovation Fund provides €190 million to Heidelberg Materials and PetroCeltic for pioneering project

Company to build one-of-a-kind hybrid carbon capture unit at Belgian Antoing cement plant