Heidelberg Materials, which has a 69.39% ownership in HeidelbergCement India Ltd. (HCIL), will significantly expand its capacity of 12.3 Mta in the country with two projects (photo existing HCIL cement plant). The construction of the new integrated 3.0 Mta capacity…
Heidelberg Materials’ Bulgarian subsidiary in Devnya and renewable energy developer CWP Europe have signed a preliminary agreement to develop a new CWP wind farm. According to CWP, the investment exceeds more than € 300m, which will make the project the…
Heidelberg Materials France has commissioned a state-of-the-art kiln line at its Airvault cement plant. It replaces two semi‑dry process clinker lines with a modern pre-calciner system with 1.25 Mta capacity. This milestone is part of the company’s modernisation project at…
Heidelberg Materials is increasing its shareholding in Türkiye’s Akçansa to 79.44%, in accepting to acquire the offered 39.72% stake of Sabanci Holding in the company. By moving to majority control, Heidelberg Materials will significantly strengthen its strategic positioning in Turkey,…
Heidelberg Material’s Airvault plant in France will be one of Europe’s cement plants with the lowest CO2 footprint by 2030. Now, the first step nears completion with the installation of the new kiln 6 with 4000 tpd clinker capacity, which…
Heidelberg Materials North America announced that they have completed the acquisition of the Edmonton, Alberta, assets of Burnco in Canada. Burnco operates one rail-served cement distribution terminal, 3 ready-mixed concrete plants, 6 aggregate sites, 2 asphalt plants and a bitumen…
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…