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In Germany, in the period from January to November 2023, the cement production declined YoY by -14.8% to 24.090 Mt. In November, the decline has been even -19.9% to 2.220 Mt from 2.635 Mt in November last year. The decline…
What has been announced in July this year has been completed last week. Summit Materials successfully combined their business with Argos USA for a transition of US$ 3.2 billion. In the USA, Argos has an installed cement grinding capacity of…
In Singapore, Pan United Cement and other local industry leaders Chevron, Keppel, Surbana Jurong, Air Liquide, Osaka Gas, and Pavilion Energy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on lower carbon opportunities to support Singapore’s aspiration of achieving…
In Italy, in the period from January to November 2023, the accumulated cement production declined by -1.0% to 17.616 Mt, after 17.785 Mt in the same period last year. In November, the production even increased by +10.0% YoY to 1.715…
In 2023, Spain’s accumulated cement production declined by -3.1% to 17.904 Mta, after 18.483 Mta in 2022 and 18.558 Mta in 2021. In 2023 this corresponds to a cement capacity utilisation rate of only 43.7%.
Schwenk Cement is interested to apply the CapsolEoP® (end-of-pipe) carbon capture technology of the Norwegian Capsol Technologies at its Broceni cement plant in Latvia. The ‘post combustion’ carbon capture technology of Capsol is a chemical absorption process that uses hot…
In the period from January to October 2023, the accumulated hydraulic cement imports (Portland and blended grey cement) of the USA declined by -1.8% to 15.678 Mt. In October the YoY decline even has been -8.4% to 1.843 Mt, after…
In Chile, in the period from January to November 2023, the accumulated cement dispatch declined by -11.9% YoY to 4.725 Mt. In November the YoY decline has been -11.7% to 0.409 Mt.
Kaolin Group International (KGI) from the Netherlands, with local partner Middle East Calcined Clay (Me-CC) from Oman, has awarded IPIAC a contact for a LC2/LC3 cement plant. The plant will be equipped with a clay calcining system to be installed…
In the USA in the period from January to October 2023, the dispatch of Blended and Portland cement declined by -2.9% YoY to 75.086 Mt. In October the declined slightly decreased to -2.4% YoY or 8.229 Mt and 8.432 Mt…