Nigeria’s Dangote Cement is planning to increase its regional footprint in Africa to 66.4 Mta cement production capacity by 2030. This shall be achieved through new greenfield investments and brownfield projects to upgrade existing plants. In the coming 2 years…
HERACLES Group, a member of Holcim, launched a new large-scale solar power plant at its Milaki cement plant in Evia, Greece, following the commissioning of a similar installation at its Volos plant earlier in May. With an installed capacity of…
India’s Ramco Cements has commissioned an 8MW waste heat recovery (WHR) system at its Ramasamy Raja Nagar cement plant (photo) in Virudhu Nagar in Tamil Nadu. With this installation the WHR generation of the 3 Mta integrated plant has increased…
Limak Çimento is in a process to expand its solar power generation at 4 locations in Türkiye by about 35.9 MWp to safe electricity costs and support sustainable energy generation in the cement production. Sinoma Overseas Development will install the…
Cimento Itambé has inaugurated a new 0.6 Mta kiln at its Balsa Nova plant in the Curitiba metropolitan region in Parana, Brazil. Covering a total area of 2.5 million m², the company operates with an annual installed capacity of 3…
Mexico’s Cemento y Concreto Moctezuma released a 2030 roadmap, which aims to reduce CO2 emissions to less than 500 kg /t of cementitious materials. The plan foresees optimizing production processes, reducing the clinker factor and increasing the use of alternative…
The strategic partnership between the two companies will leverage Fortera’s carbon mineralisation technology ReAct with Graymont’s calcium-based solutions expertise and its industrial network in the USA. ReAct is a highly engineered green cement product that is developed through Fortera’s patented…
Brazil’s Cimento Planalto SA (Ciplan), which is part of the VICAT group, accelerates the transition to low-carbon cement production. The company operates 3.2 Mta cement capacity and has five distribution centers in Brazil’s central-west and southeast regions, as well as…
Carbon Upcycling Technologies will deploy a first-of-its-kind commercial CUT CO2 system at Canada’s Ash Grove Mississauga cement plant, which is a CRH company. The technology will produce a high-quality cementitious material (SCM) from steel slag sourced from a nearby steel…
CRH announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Eco Material Technologies, a supplier of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) in the USA, for a total consideration of $2.1 billion. Eco Material is headquartered in Utah and operates a national…