Holcim announced a strategic acquisition of a majority stake in Cementos Pacasmayo, a leading cement and building materials producer in Peru. It operates 3 cement plants (photo: Conoce la Planta plant) with a capacity of 4.9 Mta, as well as…
Holcim makes three acquisitions in circular construction in Europe, to achieve a combined annual processing capacity of 1.3 Mta of construction demolition materials (photo) to contribute to the Group’s target of recycling over 20 Mta by 2030. The acquisitions comprise…
Holcim has been selected for a European Union Innovation Fund grant for its carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Campulung, Romania, which will produce an estimated 2 Mta near-zero cement from 2032. Holcim’s Carbon Hub CPT 01 project will…
HERACLES Group, a member of Holcim, launched a new large-scale solar power plant at its Milaki cement plant in Evia, Greece, following the commissioning of a similar installation at its Volos plant earlier in May. With an installed capacity of…
Holcim, E.ON Energy Infrastructure Solutions and Orcan Energy have launched a large-scale WHR project at Holcim’s Dotternhausen cement plant in Germany to capture 10MW of unused heat from kiln exhaust gases. E.ON is responsible for the planning, construction, O&M and…
US Amrize announced its debut today as an independent, publicly traded company with the completion of its 100% spin-off from Holcim. Amrize shares will begin trading today on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the SIX Swiss Exchange under…
Holcim has broken ground at the state-of-the-art OLYMPUS CCS project at its Milaki cement plant in Greece, engineered to produce 2 Mta of near-zero cement from 2029 (we reported here 13. November 2023). The project will deploy the combination of…
Holcim in Hungary announced that a new 26 MWp solar park has been connected to the Királyegyháza cement plant close to Pécs. At full capacity about one third of the plant’s energy requirement can be covered from renewable sources. The…
Gebr. Pfeiffer has received an order to supply a MVR 1800 C-4 vertical roller mill forgrinding calcined clay in the Holcim cement plant Čížkovice in the Czech Rep. The order tosupply the mill was placed by the Chinese general contractor…
Heracles signed a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract with Air Liquide for the OLYMPUS CCS project at the Milaki plant in Greece. Air Liquide shall supply the Milaki plant with integrated systems for CO2 capture, oxygen enrichment and cryogenic separation.…