Heidelberg Material’s Airvault plant in France will be one of Europe’s cement plants with the lowest CO2 footprint by 2030. Now, the first step nears completion with the installation of the new kiln 6 with 4000 tpd clinker capacity, which…
LKAB Minerals UK is producing calcined clay as a supplementary cementitious material (SCM) by milling recycled brick waste from Forterra’s Kings Dyke factory. The partnership between LKAB and the building products manufacturer Forterra, is pioneering the use of recycled calcined…
Secil operates 3 cement plants in Portugal and joined Molins in March this year. Kiln 6 of the Maceira-Liz factory (photo) has a capacity of 1800 tpd clinker. In the ProFuture CCL (Clean Cement Line) project the aim was to…
Northern Lights, which is a JV of Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies with HQ in Stavanger, Norway, will expand its fleet of CO2 transport ships. The company offers CO₂ transport and storage as a service and started first injection of liquid…
PPC’s investment in the new integrated Riebeek cement plant (RK3) in South Africa’s Western Cape, valued over R3bn, is progressing, remains on schedule and within budget. The new 1.5 Mta capacity line shall be finished end of FY 2027 and…
Holcim Romania and its key partner Carmeuse in the carbon hub CPT01 project will receive a grant from the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) for this initiative, while the project is also financed by the EU Innovation…
SaltX Technology from Sweden established a full partnership with Holcim after a first agreement had been signed in June 2025 and Holcim became a shareholder. The SaltX technology platform combines electrified calcination (EAC) with electrified sintering (a new development). The…
Holcim Philippines commissioned a new AFR handling and dosing system at their ‘La Union’ cement plant in Bacnotan (photo) on the island of Luzon, a 4h 30m drive north from Capital Manila. The project comprises the installation of a 1,440…
Holcim inaugurated at their Obourg cement plant in Belgium Europe’s largest floating solar power plant with a capacity of 31 MW. The power plant has been installed by TotalEnergies on a floating array on a rehabilitated chalk quarry lake (photo)…
The company will expand its solar power generation from 4% to 18% by 2028 to achieve annual CO2 savings of 5000 t. The company is partnering with Enertron to develop a 20 MW solar unit with 25,000 solar panels and…