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…
The EU Innovation Fund will provide 191 €m for the GeZero project of Heidelberg Materials at the Geseke cement plant (photo credit: Steffen Höft) in Northern Germany. GeZero aims to deploy an entire CCS value chain, capturing 0.7 Mta of…
The first evoZero® cement shall be produced at the Brevik plant in Norway, where a post-combustion CCS-technology will be operational at the end of 2024. Here the CO2 is captured by using liquid amine in an absorber (installation photo). When…
Heidelberg Materials starts its CCUS project at Devnya Cement in Bulgaria. The ANRAV project received a funding of € 189.7m by the EU Innovation Fund in January this year. The ANRAV project will avoid 7.8 million tons of CO2 emissions…
In Indonesia, Heidelberg Materials has signed an agreement via its subsidiary Indocement to acquire 100% of the shares in PT Semen Grobogan. The company operates an integrated cement plant in Central Java, which started commercial production in 2022. With this…