Heidelberg Materials will stop the clinker production at its 1900 tpd kiln line in the Añorga plant in Northern Spain and continue the plant as a grinding unit. The clinker required to supply the markets in Northern Spain and the…
Heidelberg Materials France plans a restructuring that would result in the closure of the two cement plants in Beffes (photo) and Villiers-au-Bouin in Indre-et-Loire. 170 employees are affected by the plant closures in 2025. The decision comes amid a significant…
Heidelberg Materials in Italy announced a power purchase agreement (PPA) with OX2, a leading independent power producer from renewable sources. The PPA will last for 7 years, starting in 2025 for an annual electricity supply of 36.6 to 51.2 GWh.…
Heidelberg Materials updated information about the Airvault GOCO2 project in France. In the Airvault cement plant the existing 2 semi-wet kilns are replaced with a new 4000 tpd kiln line from German plant supplier thyssenkrupp Polysius by 2025. The new…
Heidelberg Materials received the building permit for its Cap2U (Capture-to-Use) project in the Lengfurt cement plant in Germany. The carbon capture and use (CCU) system is based on an amine scrubber technology developed for the exhaust gas stream from cement…
The new Leilac-2 location will be at the Ennigerloh cement plant of Heidelberg Materials in NRW in Germany. After the decision to shut-down the clinker production in the Hanover plant, where the original Leilac-2 project was already well advanced and…
Heidelberg Materials intends to equip the recently modernized Antoing plant of its Belgian subsidiary (known as CBR) with an innovative hybrid carbon capture unit. The Anthemis CCS project, established in January 2023, shall reduce the CO2 emission by 97%, equivalent…
Heidelberg Materials signed a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for their CCS project at Padeswood cement in Flintshire, UK. This comes after the company choose already about a year ago Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ KM CDR solvent-based process for the…
The Ravenna Hub in Northeast Italy aims to become the pioneer CCS hub in the Mediterranean for the storage of captured CO2 in depleted gas reservoirs in the Adriatic off the coast of Ravenna. The hub will be operated by…
Heidelberg Materials is hoping to produce America’s first carbon-free cement in the Edmonton plant (photo) in Canada. The CO2 in the exhaust gas of the plant will be captured in an absorption reactor to reduce CO2 emissions of 1.0 Mta…