The VAIA (Vicat Advanced Industrial Alliance) CCS project by Vicat aims to capture and store 1.2 Mta of CO2 at the Montalieu-Vercieu cement plant, the largest in France. Now the French Government has awarded a *Grand Projets Industriels de Décarbonation*…
TITAN Materials has completed the acquisition of Vracs de L’Estuaire (VDE), an established cement business in France, reinforcing the Group’s commitment to further develop its product offerings in the country. VDE operates a state-of-the-art grinding plant, strategically located at the…
Hoffmann Green Cement announced that the company achieved historic production volumes in 2025 in France with a production of 50.7 kta, which is a threefold increase from a volume of 16.3 kta in 2024. The delivery of more than 50…
The VAIA-project (Vicat Advanced Industrial Alliance) at France’s largest cement plant is receiving a grant by the EU Innovation Fund. The project at the Montalieu-Vercieu (Isère) 2.0 Mta capacity plant (photo) will produce calcined clay, using the MECAClay technology to…
Lafarge France has signed a nuclear production allocation contract (CAPN) with the EDF Group. The contract involves allocating to Lafarge France a share of the capacity from EDF’s operating nuclear fleet (photo: Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant) over more than 10…
Ecocem announced an additional investment of € 170m to expand its ACT production capacity in France to 1.9 Mta. Four new lines for the production of ACT scalable low-carbon cements shall be constructed in the Fos-sur-Mer and Dunkirk areas. This…
Hoffmann Green announced that it has obtained a Technical Approval (ATEc) in France for its H-UKR cement, a world premiere for a 0% clinker cement. Resulting from more than seven years of research, numerous testing, collaboration with leading experts and…
The preliminary annual cement production in France declined by -7.9% to 14.170 Mta, after 15.378 Mta in the last year and 16.791 Mta in 2022.
Ecocem announced the first commercial low-carbon cement production line for ACT technology at its Dunkirk manufacturing facility in France. The new production line will be operational by 2026 and will initially provide an annual production capacity of 300,000 tonnes of…
Holcim has been selected for a grant from the EU Innovation Fund for its carbon capture and storage (CCS/CCUS) project in Martres-Tolosane (photo), France. This grant for the breakthrough CarboClearTech project in this cement plant brings the number of Holcim’s…