Carbon capture must become cheaper and easier to implement. This is one of the key messages by Dr. Kristina Fleiger of the German VDZ in an award-winning presentation at the Global CemCCUS conference in Hamburg in Germany this month. In…
Cement Australia has temporarily paused operation of its Railton cement plant in Tasmania to upgrade its kiln firing system. The A$106 million investment is funded A$59.6 million by the Australian Government. The new firing system will allow the co-processing of…
Bright Hydrogen Solutions (BrightHy), announced the signing of a long-term agreement with Çimsa in Spain for the supply and operation of a green hydrogen production facility at Çimsa’s Buñol cement plant. Çimsa, a subsidiary of Sabancı Holding, was founded in…
The CCS project by Schwenk Latvia is supported by the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA). As part of the project, Schwenk plans to install a carbon capture and storage system to reduce CO2 emissions of the cement plant…
In a pilot phase, Vietnam has introduced GHG (greenhouse gas) emission quotas for 110 cement plants for the period 2025-26. The allocation of quotas is done annually on a facility-by-facility basis, helping businesses gradually access the emission control mechanism. During…
Heidelberg Materials’ Bulgarian subsidiary in Devnya and renewable energy developer CWP Europe have signed a preliminary agreement to develop a new CWP wind farm. According to CWP, the investment exceeds more than € 300m, which will make the project the…
Ecocem and Tata Steel IJmuiden in the Netherlands have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance the use of Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) and Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steel slags as next-generation materials in low-carbon cement as Supplementary Cementitious Material (SCM).…
The Danish Energy Agency announced last week that Aalborg Portland has been awarded a contract to capture, transport, and store 1.25 Mta CO2 from 2030. Sixteen companies initially expressed interest in the funding pool of 28.7 billion DKK, and 10…
Heidelberg Materials France has commissioned a state-of-the-art kiln line at its Airvault cement plant. It replaces two semi‑dry process clinker lines with a modern pre-calciner system with 1.25 Mta capacity. This milestone is part of the company’s modernisation project at…
After successful cold tests with the new kiln7 line at Cimpor’s Alhandra cement plant in Portugal, the first kiln firing has been reported. The project is intended for a production capacity increase from 3000 tpd to 3600 tpd, as well…