Sweden’s Cemvision announced a breakthrough that transforms underutilized, low-value Electric Arc Furnaces (EAF) and Basic Oxygen Furnaces (BOF) slags (chart: FEhS) into high-performance SCMs, while also recovering valuable metals. Cemvision’s patent-pending beneficiation process has successfully piloted with Swerim, one of…
Peru’s Cemento Yura, which is part of the Gloria Group, inaugurated a 30 MWp (peak) photovoltaic plant at its Arequipa cement plant. The solar park comprises 51,264 photovoltaic modules (photo) over 45 hectares and required an investment of about US$…
Spain’s Cementos Molins and Enagás have agreed to submit the MOSUSOL NetCO2 Project to the EU Innovation Funds, aiming to capture one million tons of CO2 per year at Molins’ Sant Vicenç dels Horts (Barcelona) plant (photo), including the biogenic…
PPC Zimbabwe will accelerate the construction of 2 solar power plants with a combined capacity of 30 MW. PPC is the largest cement producer in the country and operates 1 integrated plant and 2 grinding plants (photo). The solar panels…
Holcim Central Europe West and Swiss newcomer Neustark are jointly commissioning 14 plants for the removal of CO₂ in Switzerland, Germany, Italy and France. Lafarge France, part of the Holcim Group, will use the technology in the Gennevilliers granulats facility, where…
Heidelberg Materials is operating an innovative recycling plant for selective separation of demolition concrete at its production site near Katowice, Poland. The first-of-its-kind facility features a proprietary crushing mechanism that enables sophisticated separation and sorting capabilities to fully recycle 100…
Cementir through its subsidiary Aalborg Portland in Denmark and Air Liquide, have launched the ACCSION joint decarbonisation project. The CCS project has been selected by the European Commission to receive € 220m in project support under the EU Innovation Fund…
China’s Anhui Conch Cement Group and AVIC International Beijing Co., Ltd have signed a strategic agreement to integrate their international business development efforts and promote technological innovation aimed at decarbonizing cement production. The two companies will collaborate on international business…
The new Leilac-2 location will be at the Ennigerloh cement plant of Heidelberg Materials in NRW in Germany. After the decision to shut-down the clinker production in the Hanover plant, where the original Leilac-2 project was already well advanced and…
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…