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Mexico’s Cemex pioneered at their R&D Center in Switzerland a creative alternative to traditional clinker grinding. The new micronization technology shall have the potential to reduce the clinker factor by up to 50%, in specific cement admixtures. Accordingly, with this…
In January 2024, Thailand’s cement manufactures produced 2.776 Mt of cement, which is still -3.4% below January last year, but this is a lower decline than in the last two years. Thailand’s economy and construction output is expected to grow…
Heidelberg Materials intends to equip the recently modernized Antoing plant of its Belgian subsidiary (known as CBR) with an innovative hybrid carbon capture unit. The Anthemis CCS project, established in January 2023, shall reduce the CO2 emission by 97%, equivalent…
Colombia’s local cement dispatch has been this January with 0.891 Mt-4.2% lower than in January last year with 0.930 Mt. This is now the 3rd year that the January dispatch is declining.
Colombia started into the new year with a minus of -4,4% in the cement production with 1.001 Mt after 1.048 Mt in January 2023. The minus is the result of a lower cement demand in January.
Schwenk Zement contracted thyssenkrupp Polysius to build a demonstration plant for the production of meca-clay in the Allmendingen cement plant in Germany. Meca-clay can be produced without the conventional clay calcination (we reported here 15.12.2023). The process uses all-electric technology…
CIMAF Gabon, which is part of the Moroccan CIMAF Group, plans to build a 0.9 Mta kiln line in Meba, 15km located from the town of Ntoum. The project had already been announced in September 2022. CIMAF operates two grinding…
In February, EU carbon credits reached a level of less than 60 € / EU ETS allowance, due to a downturn from the auctions (Chart 28.02.24: Intercontinental Exchange). Important carbon credit buyers, such as Shell, Nestlé and EasyJet recently retreated…
Russia’s cement production started in the new year with a decline by -1.3% to 2.571 Mt, after 2.605 Mt in January 2023. However the January cement production is always a result of the weather conditions in the country.
Scheuch, who is based in Upper Austria, develops and supplies a portfolio of solutions for flue-gas cleaning, included carbon-capture technologies. The company is currently working intensively on the implementation of various CO2 capture projects for industrial clients. For the cement industry…