Lafarge Canada, member of Holcim, and Hyperion Global Energy Corp announced the launch of Hyperion’s ‘Tandem Carbon Recycling System’ technology. The pilot project, currently in operation at Lafarge’s Bath Cement Plant (photo), uses a technology that captures and transforms waste…
Heidelberg Materials will stop the clinker production at its 1900 tpd kiln line in the Añorga plant in Northern Spain and continue the plant as a grinding unit. The clinker required to supply the markets in Northern Spain and the…
Rohrdorfer Zement awarded Fives FCB a contract for the supply of a 50 tpd clay calcination unit at the Rohrdorf plant in Bavaria, Germany. The clay calcination unit will be integrated within the clinker production line and allow Rohrdorfer to…
The Toral de los Vados cement plant of Votorantim in the Leon area in Spain is decarbonated. Instead of a huge and costly CCS- project the plant is undergoing different more conventional transformation processes. The decarbonation strategy includes a better…
Cemex Spain announced the shut-down of the kilns at its Lloseta cement factory on Mallorca, to align with the policies and ecological and energy transition objectives of the Balearic Islands, and according to Cemex’s “Future in Action” program. Consequently, the…
US Eagle Materials announced plans to modernize and expand its Laramie cement plant in Wyoming and related distribution facilities in Northern Colorado for an investment of US$ 430m. A modern kiln line will increase the plant capacity by 50% to…
Shree Cement Limited, one of India’s largest cement producers, inaugurated its new integrated cement plant in Dachepalli village, Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. The integrated 3.0 Mta capacity cement plant (Photo credit: Amit Patel, plant during construction) is designed to…
Cockburn Cement Ltd. (CCL), which is part of ADBRI, started in 2022 the Kwinana upgrade project in Australia. The project targets the transitioning of the cement production from Munster to Kwinana, installing 2 new ball mills with 2 x 100…
In the USA, in 3 weeks, start-up Fortera Corporation will open the world’s first commercial-scale CO2 mineralization plant at CalPortand’s Redding cement plant. The ReCarb® plant is inspired by nature and converts CO2 back into mineral form, to make carbon…
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…