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,…
In Italy, from January to October 2023 the accumulated cement production declined by only -2.0% to 15.901 Mt, after 16.225 Mta in the same period last year. In October the cement production declined by just -1.6% to 1.966 Mt, after…
Aalborg Portland, which is part of the Cementir Holding Group, is commissioning its second carbon capture pilot plant. The CCUS method developed under the auspices of ConsenCUS can potentially cut the energy consumption of traditional capture technologies by 50%. The…