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First fully decarbonized cement project in Germany

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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…

Cement market in Brazil is in a slight decline

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In Brazil the cement market in 1.H 2023 could not fulfill its growth expectations. The cement dispatch, which also includes a small number of cement exports, declined in the first half 2023 from 30.832 Mt by -1.8% to 30.268 Mt…

Cimpor Portugal to install first Pyrorotor® in Portugal

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The project is intended to increase the capacity at the Alhandra plant from 3000tpd to 3600tpd, as well as allowing thermal substitution rates of more than 80%. It includes the first installation of KHD’s innovative Pyrorotor® alternative fuel combustion reactor…

Khayah cement grinding plant commissioned

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A new cement grinding plant has been commissioned by Khayah Cement (formerly Lafarge Cement and Circle Cement) in Manresa, Zimbabwe. A vertical roller mill (VRM) has been installed, which boosted the plants cement capacity to about 1.0 Mta.