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…
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…