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Türkiye’s Çimsa to acquire UK’s Mannok business

Mannok Scotchtown cement works

Türkiye’s Çimsa, a subsidiary of Sabancı Holding, reached an agreement to acquire 94.7% of UK’s Mannok for an overall enterprise value of €330 million. The local Mannok’s (formerly the Quinn Group) leadership team will retain a 5.3% interest. Under the…

Schwenk selected Capsol Technologies in two Baltic States

Capsol Technologies1

Capsol Technologies has signed a contract for the delivery of two CapsolGo® carbon capture demonstration systems in two different Baltic States.  The systems will be campaigned at the German Schwenk Group’s Brocēni cement plant in Latvia and the Akmenės Cementas…

Alpacem modernizes the Wietersdorf plant in Austria

Alpacem Wietersdorf 1

Alpacem is going to modernize its Wietersdorf cement plant in Austria for an investment of € 50m. The investment is part of the ZEUS modernisation program, which aims to make the cement production carbon-zero by 2035. A new energy-efficient cement…

Irish cement producer Ecocem’s ACT technology

Ecocem ACT Technology

The ACT technology by Irish cement producer Ecocem shall decarbonise the production of cement by as much as 70% compared to standard cement blends. ACT is a low-clinker cement technology, where clinker is mostly replaced by activated limestone and cementitious…

Cemex and Alba signed JV on biochar in Germany

ALBA und Cemex starten Joint Venture

Cemex Deutschand has signed a JV with recycling service provider ALBA Group for the construction of a biochar production plant in Germany. The facility will be located in the Rüdersdorf cement plant close to Berlin and produce biochar from a…