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…
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…