Heidelberg Materials in the UK has been granted planning permission to build the CCS unit in the Padeswood cement plant in North Wales. The plant shall be equipped with an amine technology and absorber tower for the flue gases to…
Germany’s Heidelberg Materials signed an agreement with Pronto to deploy their autonomous haulage system (AHS) to over 100 trucks, operating across more than a dozen sites worldwide. The AHS software learns a haul route from a quarry operator driving a vehicle…
The KHD Group will be carrying out a FEED (Front-End Engineering Design) study for the new Oxyfuel kiln at Heidelberg Materials’ Geseke cement plant in Germany. The contract is part of the planning phase of the GeZero CCS project, which…
Heidelberg Materials signed a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract with the Fluor Corporation for its GeZero CCS-project in Geseke in Germany, where a second generation new oxyfuel kiln for the capture of 0.7 Mta will be installed (illustration). Fluor…
Heidelberg Materials announced that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire US Giant Cement Holding Inc. and its subsidiaries. The transaction’s assets in the south-eastern US consist of an integrated 0.8 Mta cement plant in Harleyville (photo), South…
The two companies signed a collaboration agreement to promote carbon footprint reduction projects in Northern Spain. Heidelberg Materials will develop CO2 capture technologies at its two cement plants in Añorga (photo) and Arrigorriaga in the Basque region of Spain. Enagás…
Heidelberg Materials is operating an innovative recycling plant for selective separation of demolition concrete at its production site near Katowice, Poland. The first-of-its-kind facility features a proprietary crushing mechanism that enables sophisticated separation and sorting capabilities to fully recycle 100…
The Government of the UK reaffirmed its commitment on carbon capture storage projects in Northern England and announced a € 26.3bn funding over the next 25 years to establish two carbon capture clusters in Merseyside and Teesside. The Padeswood cement…
Heidelberg Materials has started a feasibility study for a decarbonisation project at its Rezzato-Mazzano cement plant in Italy in the province of Brescia. The project will investigate a potential source-to-sink CCS solution and aims to make the plant the first…
Heidelberg Materials has signed a strategic agreement to acquire assets of Votorantim Cimentos in Morocco. Its subsidiary Ciments du Maroc will acquire the controlling stakes (63% of the shares) in Asment de Témara, a cement and ready-mixed concrete producer, and…