Progress has been made in the “CI4C” carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) project in the Mergelstetten cement plant in Germany. This is a € 120m joint venture project by Schwenk, Buzzi-Dyckerhoff, Heidelberg Materials and Vicat with an oxyfuel process…
In Germany, January mostly has highest month-on-month (MoM) cement price increases. This January it was moderate with +3.4% MoM from Dec. 2023. However, compared to Jan. 2023 the average cement prices increased by +15.3% YoY, after increases of +33.9% YoY…
In Germany, in Jan. 2024 the cement production declined -35.5% to only 0.893 Mt. This is almost a free fall from Jan. last year with 1.384 Mt and Jan. 2022 with 1.489 Mt.
Heidelberg Materials received the building permit for its Cap2U (Capture-to-Use) project in the Lengfurt cement plant in Germany. The carbon capture and use (CCU) system is based on an amine scrubber technology developed for the exhaust gas stream from cement…
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…
Schwenk Zement contracted thyssenkrupp Polysius to build a demonstration plant for the production of meca-clay in the Allmendingen cement plant in Germany. Meca-clay can be produced without the conventional clay calcination (we reported here 15.12.2023). The process uses all-electric technology…
In Germany, in December average ex-works cement prices decreased from 119.83 €/t to 119.73 € This is a +31.4% increase to last December. Maximum cement average prices were 120.16 €/t in September and the maximum YoY increases were in February…
In 2023, in Germany the cement production intended for sale massively declined by -15.6% to 25.513 Mta, after 30.235 Mta in 2022. These data, provided by the German Statistics Office (Destatis), are lower than the cement production data provided by…
Due to low market demand, Heidelberg Materials decided to shut down the clinker production in its Hanover cement plant in Germany, in the 2nd half 2024. The plant has a 0.7 Mta clinker capacity, which can be more than compensated…
Germany’s TopWerk Group and US-based Partanna have announced a partnership. TopWerk, a leading global equipment supplier for concrete products, regards Partanna’s carbon-negative binder as a direct, plug-and-play replacement solution to Portland cement, that is fully compatible with its machines (photo:…