Cemex Ventures in Madrid, Spain, has increased its stake in UK-based HiiROC. The startup-company has developed a novel proprietary process for the production of low-cost, zero emission hydrogen. The technology ‘Thermal Plasma Electrolysis (TPE)’ is using a fraction of the…
TITAN has signed a grant agreement with the EU Innovation Fund for their IFESTOS pioneering carbon capture project at the Kamari cement plant in Greece, following its selection in July (we reported). IFESTOS, an integral component of TITAN’s extensive decarbonization…
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…
Carbon capture is central to any realistic plan for decarbonising the cement industry. Northern Ireland’s Nuada, which rebranded this year from MOF Technologies Ltd. is in the ‘Innovandi Open Challenge Programme’ of the GCCA with Holcim, SCG, Cementos Argos and…
Schwenk Zement and thyssenkrupp Polysius jointly developed an innovative technology for the activation of clay, to reduce the CO2 in the global cement and concrete production. The meca-clay technology enables the activation of all types of clay using only electrical…
In Germany, in October 2023 the average ex-works cement price stood at 118.04 €/t, which is +29.1% above the cement price in October 2022. However, the cement price as well as the YoY prices are in a significant decline from…
In Germany, from January to October 2023 in total 21.979 Mt of cement have been produced, which in a YoY decline by -14.2%. In October the decline still was -13.2% from 2.661 Mt last year to 2.309 Mt this year.
Spain’s cement exports continue to decljne this year. From January to November 2023 only 3.702 Mt have been exported, which is a decline by -4.4%, YOY. In November the exports declined by -18.5% to 0.296 Mt after 0.364 Mt in…
In Spain, from January to November 2023, the accumulated cement production declined by -2.8% to 16.649 Mt, compared to the same period last year. In November, the cement production declined by -7.8% to 1.413 Mt, after 1.533 Mt, YoY.
Holcim has a groundbreaking CCS-project in the Obourg cement plant in Belgium. The GO4ZERO-project is implemented in 2 phases. First, the 2 wet kilns will be replaced by a new dry process line with a clinker capacity of 1.7 Mta,…