Tanga Cement Plc in Tanzania, has secured a 16-month loan relief on repayments from its majority shareholder Heidelberg Materials. Heidelberg, which holds a 68.3% stake in Tanga Cement through its Norwegian unit Scancem International, reaffirmed its backing in a 27…
Heidelberg Materials North America announced that it has entered into a binding purchase agreement to acquire the Edmonton, Alberta, assets of BURNCO, a fifth-generation family-owned construction materials company with locations in Canada and the United States. The transaction includes six…
After erection of the CO2 purification unit (CPU) at the Mergelstetten cement plant all CCUS systems have been installed and the commissioning and test phase will start in some months. This innovative CI4C ‘Catch4Climate’ benchmark project is a joint initiative…
CBI Ghana announced the launch of Supacem LC3-45, an innovative limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) that is the first commercial calcined clay with less than 50% clinker. The new product reduces the reliance on imported clinker and sets a new…
Morocco’s Ciments du Maroc, a member of the Heidelberg Materials group, announced the finalization of the acquisition of 62.62% of the capital of Asment de Témara, in execution of the agreement signed last September between Heidelberg Materials Holding SARL and…
Heidelberg Materials Benelux and Equinor ASA signed an agreement for the Arthemis CCS project at the Antoing cement plant in Belgium towards the realization of the offshore pipeline ‘CO₂ Highway Europe’. From 2029 about 0.8 Mta CO2 shall be captured…
Heidelberg Materials North America completed successfully the acquisition of US Giant Cement Holdings and its subsidiaries from the Fortaleza, Uniland and Trituradora groups (we reported here 3.12.2024). The acquired operations include a cement plant in Harleyville (photo) in South Carolina,…
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…