Europe & CIS

The company will supply 3.6 million t of pellets over the next five years to Komercon, giving Komercon the ability to close long term supply agreements for its partners.

The company has obtained positive assessments from independent players specialising in extra-financial ratings, validating its environmental and social strategy.

The company has announced that it has been included in the 2021 S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook for the second time (previous in 2017 yearbook).

The two companies will study the feasibility of capturing carbon from two LafargeHolcim cement plants, based in Europe and North America, using Schlumberger’s carbon sequestration technologies.

The company has announced that Rudiger Kuhn has been appointed as the Representative of the Economy on the newly formed Sustainability Advisory Board for the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany.

The co-existence of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAM) and free allocation is essential, says CEMBUREAU.

Students at a local secondary school have been given an opportunity to quiz employees at Tarmac about the benefits of ‘earning and learning’ to mark the start of this year’s National Apprenticeship Week.

GlobalData expects a strong recovery for the Spanish construction industry in 2021, with an expansion of 7.4% expected this year. The industry will be supported by a combination of increased government spending on infrastructure projects.

The company is calling on industry professionals from across the construction and infrastructure industry to take part in research aimed at providing a snapshot of views and attitudes to carbon reduction and net zero.

The company has announced its participation in the Low Emissions Intensity Lime and Cement 2 (LEILAC 2) project, a research and innovation initiative aimed to decarbonise the cement production process.

The company is celebrating 20 years of its wetland project with the RSPB, with the announcement that a further 80 ha. of restored land from Hanson’s Needingworth site in Cambridgeshire will be transferred to the Ouse Fen nature reserve.

The company won the award for delivering exceptional resurfacing works at the Silverstone Circuit. The winning team was made up of 75 Tarmac employees from across the business.

The company has been chosen as the supplier for a grey-to-white cement line conversion for the Turkish cement producer, Çimko Çimento. The project is expected to be commissioned in early 2022.

The further development and scaling-up of the LEILAC technology has begun; it has been decided to build the LEILAC 2 demonstration installation for carbon capture at the HeidelbergCement cement plant in Hanover, Germany.

The company has announced the acquisition of Edile Commerciale and the signing of Cemex Rhone Alpes. These operations are hoped to strengthen LafargeHolcim’s position in Europe.