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Heidelberg Materials is still in the selection of the technology for the CCUS project in the Edmonton cement plant in Canada. In the plant a MHI CO2 pilot capture system has been tested (we reported 18th of January). Now, Technip…
In Germany, in December average ex-works cement prices decreased from 119.83 €/t to 119.73 € This is a +31.4% increase to last December. Maximum cement average prices were 120.16 €/t in September and the maximum YoY increases were in February…
EQIOM (a CRH company) is launching the first phase of the K6 project to reduce CO2 emissions from the Lumbres cement plant (photo) in the Haut de France region. As part of this program, EQIOM will build a new, innovative…
In 2023, in Germany the cement production intended for sale massively declined by -15.6% to 25.513 Mta, after 30.235 Mta in 2022. These data, provided by the German Statistics Office (Destatis), are lower than the cement production data provided by…
In 2023, Italy’s annual cement production has been almost of the level achieved in 2022. The production increased by +0.1% to 18.815 Mta. Italy’s per capita consumption (PCC) of cement stands at 337 kg.
Holcim Mexico announced to invest US$ 55m in a new grinding unit at its Tabasco cement plant in Macuspana. The expansion will help Holcim to reach a production capacity of 1.5 Mta of cement per year and allow the plant’s…
Morocco’s cement dispatch started into 2024 with a plus of +6.5% to 1.130 Mt, after 1.061 Mt in January 2023. Anyhow, over the last years the January dispatch showed YoY changes from -8.1% to +8.9% range.
After a period of stagnation, the cement production in Ethiopia has been increasing with +5.1% to 9.83 Mta last year and 8.77 Mta in 2019. However, the capacity utilization is with only 46.8% not economical and the per capita consumption…
CIMAF Mali, part of the CIMAF Group (Ciments de l’Afrique), started the construction of a second cement grinding plant in Natien, a village located in the Sikasso region at the border triangle to Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast. The…
In 2024 Argentina’s cement dispatch started with a huge -20.0 % decline to 0.773 Mt, after 0.966 Mt last year. The decline is even higher than in the Corona year 2020, when the dispatch declined to -14.3%.