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Votorantim Cimentos has secured a US$150m loan from the IFC to upgrade its Salto de Pirapora cement plant in São Paulo. The investment aims to increase the alternative fuel (AF) substitution rate by installing a RDF facility with 120.000 t/y…
In first half of 2023 the cement production slightly increased by +0.4%, when compared to the first half of 2022. The cement production increased from 9.405 Mt in 1.H 2022 to 9.440 Mt in first half 2023.
After a -10.8% decline in the cement production in China in 2022, in the first half of 2023 the cement production increased by +1.3% to 953.0 Mt. However, in June 2023 there has already been a slight decline by -1.5%…
Holcim Croatia, part of building materials producer Holcim, announced that EU Innovation Fund will co-finance its 237 million euro (US$266 million) decarbonisaton project. The KODeCo net zero CO2 project will capture and store about 360000 tons CO2 annually from the…
The EU Commission has selected the IFESTOS CCUS project by the Titan Cement Group in their 3rd call for large-scale projects under the EU Innovation Fund. According to the project application the Kamari cement plant will be retrofitted with state-of-the-art…
Panama has a small cement industry. Anyhow, in the first half of 2023 to cement production has been up, by +7.0%, from 0.710 Mt in first half 2022 to 0.760 Mt in first half of 2023. The cement exports declined…
Heidelberg Materials’ newly launched GeZero carbon capture and storage (CCS) project will fully decarbonise cement production at the company’s Geseke plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The CCS project is supported by the EU Innovation Fund and aims to capture 700,000…
In Malaysia in the first 4 month of 2023, the cement production increased by +1.1% to 8.821 Mt from 8.723 Mt in the first 4 month (Jan-Apr) 2022.
The strategic investment by the VICAT Group is on track. The new 6500 tpd kiln line at the Rufisque cement plant in Senegal will be commissioned in the year 2024 by Fives FCB. The new line no. 6 will feature…
China United Qingzhou Co. Ltd., which is part of CNBM, is planning a 200,000 tpa CO2 plant on the basis of full oxygen combustion enrichment and purification. It is the first project in the Shandong province and the first large-scale…