Heidelberg Materials, the only cement producer in Sweden, intends to focus its activities at the Slite site and to end clinker production in Skövde from 2027 on-wards. Background is the decline in cement sales, driven by continued weak construction demand…
Heidelberg Materials Benelux started the batch production of calcined clay at its Ghent cement plant (photo) in Belgium. The calcined clay is for the production of Q-CEM, which shall pace the way for the production of low-carbon cements. Q-CEM delivers…
The evoZero® cement brand from carbon-captured cement plants has been launched by Heidelberg Materials in Europe in 2023. The expected production by 2030 from fully approved projects is about 1.35 Mta from the two cement plants Brevik in Norway and…
Heidelberg Materials announced that they entered into a binding purchase agreement to acquire Walan Speciality Construction Products in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. The business consists of a 3 year-old ready2grind slag grinding facility (Photo: image by Gebr. Pfeiffer), which has a…
Heidelberg Materials is pausing its investment in CCS carbon capture at the cement factory in Slite, Sweden. This announcement comes after the Swedish Energy Agency rejected the company’s application for further co-financing the CCS project. The project, which aimed to…
The DREAM project by Heidelberg Materials at the Rezzato-Mazzano cement plant represents the first full-scale CCS and full chain (Carbon Capture and Storage) project in Italy’s cement sector. About 1 Mt of CO2 shall be captured each year. The CO2…
The EU Commission announced today €2.9bn in funding 61 ‘cutting-edge’ net-zero technology funding projects, according to the IF24 net-zero-call launched in December 2024. The developers of the 61 successful projects have been invited to start the grant agreement preparation phase…
Heidelberg Materials reached a milestone with the operation of the ANRAV.beta system at the Devnya cement plant in Bulgaria. In this demonstration project an Oxyfuel calciner is used, operating entirely on alternative fuels, using pure oxygen in the calcination process…
Heidelberg Materials and Linde will open their Joint groundbreaking ‘Capture -to-Use’ or Cap2U-Project in Lengfurt in Germany soon. This is the first large-scale CCU (Carbon Capture and Utilisation) project by the global cement industry. Annually, up to 0.070 Mta will…
Following a funding agreement with the UK Government, Heidelberg Materials reached a major milestone by taking the final investment decision for the CCS project at Padeswood, UK. Construction of the project begins this year, with commissioning planned for 2029. The…