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:…
In Germany, in November average ex-works cement prices of 119.83 €/t have been achieved. This is a +28.2% YoY increase. Maximum cement average prices were 120.16 €/t in September and the maximum YoY increases were in February with +41.2%.
In Germany, in the period from January to November 2023, the cement production declined YoY by -14.8% to 24.090 Mt. In November, the decline has been even -19.9% to 2.220 Mt from 2.635 Mt in November last year. The decline…
The German Rohrdorfer Group plans to integrate a clay flash calcination plant into an integrated cement production line. Waste heat from the clinker production shall be used as a heat source for the flash calcination in the Rohrdorf cement plant…
The EU Innovation Fund will provide 191 €m for the GeZero project of Heidelberg Materials at the Geseke cement plant (photo credit: Steffen Höft) in Northern Germany. GeZero aims to deploy an entire CCS value chain, capturing 0.7 Mta of…
Schwenk Zement and thyssenkrupp Polysius jointly developed an innovative technology for the activation of clay, to reduce the CO2 in the global cement and concrete production. The meca-clay technology enables the activation of all types of clay using only electrical…