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.…
Holcim is progressing on the planned full capital market separation of its North American business, planned by way of a 100% spin-off to be listed on the NYSE (we reported here the first time 28.01.2024 with a photo of the…
Holcim has signed an agreement with Huaxin Cement Ltd to sell its entire 83.81% shareholding in Lafarge Africa PLC in Nigeria, at an equity value of US$ 1bn on a 100% basis. With plants in Ewekoro (photo) and Sagamu in the…
Aumund is developing an electrical clay calcination system in a joint development with Holcim at its test centre in Rheinberg, Germany (photo: demo-unit). Clay activation is achieved by a combination of electrical heating and materials circulation in an enclosed pan…
Holcim has been selected for a grant from the EU Innovation Fund for its carbon capture and storage (CCS/CCUS) project in Martres-Tolosane (photo), France. This grant for the breakthrough CarboClearTech project in this cement plant brings the number of Holcim’s…
Holcim in Germany modernized the pyroprocessing line at its Beckum plant to reduce thermal energy and CO2 emissions. The old rotary cooler (photo) has been replaced by a state-of-the-art Pendulum grate cooler by IKN for an investment of about €…
Holcim Česko will build a calcined clay processing line in the Czech Republic for completion by the end of 2026. The plant construction will start in January 2025 for an investment of US$ 44m with a financial support of CZK…