EMC Cement plans to install a carbon-zero 1.2 Mta cement plant in the Port of Amsterdam, Netherlands, together with HES International, a dry bulk handling company. EMC is a supplier of low-carbon cements based on natural volcanics. The all-electric plant…
French start-up company NeoCem has raised more than €23 m to build a clay calcining plant in Saint-Maximin, in the Oise Department, Picardy region in Northern France. The company, which is a spin-off of Lille’s NeoEco Engineering company, will use…
At its La Malle cement plant Holcim France trialled hydrogen as alternative fuel and were the first in the industry to achieve injection rates of more than 50%. With the remaining fuel mix from biogenic and other alternative sources the…
In January 2024, Spain’s cement exports where down by -24.4% to 0.253 Mt, after 0.335 Mt in January 2023. In 2023 the cement exports declined by -4.9%. Please note: If you will find other data, e.g. in news sections, these…
In January 2024, Spain produced 1.169 Mt of cement, after 1.437 Mt in January 2023. This is a YoY decline by -18.7%, after the -3.1% annual decline in 2023. Please note: If you will find other data, e.g. in news…
In Germany, in December average ex-works cement prices decreased from 119.83 €/t to 119.73 € This is a +31.4% increase to last December. Maximum cement average prices were 120.16 €/t in September and the maximum YoY increases were in February…
EQIOM (a CRH company) is launching the first phase of the K6 project to reduce CO2 emissions from the Lumbres cement plant (photo) in the Haut de France region. As part of this program, EQIOM will build a new, innovative…
In 2023, in Germany the cement production intended for sale massively declined by -15.6% to 25.513 Mta, after 30.235 Mta in 2022. These data, provided by the German Statistics Office (Destatis), are lower than the cement production data provided by…
In 2023, Italy’s annual cement production has been almost of the level achieved in 2022. The production increased by +0.1% to 18.815 Mta. Italy’s per capita consumption (PCC) of cement stands at 337 kg.
The Rohrdorfer Group has set itself the goal of CO2 neutrality by 2038. At its Hatschek cement plant (photo) in Gmunden in Austria, Rohrdorfer is installing a CO2 pilot capture plant based on the Andritz amine technology as well as…