Europe & CIS

The pilot project ‘catch4climate’, for which four cement manufacturers have joined forces, is actively tackling the capturing of carbon and its subsequent industrial use.

The company’s subsidiary, Ciments Calcia, has presented the draft terms of its large-scale investment and reorganisation programme for several of its sites in France.

The company has delivered about 170 t of printing material specially developed for concrete 3D printing, for Europe’s largest residential building which is currently being printed in Bavaria.

The company has priced a €850 million sustainability-linked bond with a coupon of 0.5% maturing in 2031.

The FDES represent a tool for evaluating the environmental performance of buildings constructed using Hoffmann Green concrete.

Jan Kjaersgaard has decided to leave FLSmidth due to family reasons. Effective immediately, Carsten Riisberg Lund has been appointed new Cement Industry President and member of Group Executive Management.

Following the release of UK GDP figures for Q3 by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showing a sharp quarter-on-quarter rise in UK construction output in Q3, Moustafa Ali, Economist at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view.

The company has announced new targets for carbon emissions reduction in the next 10 years, with the aim to achieve carbon-neutral concrete by 2050.

The Board of Directors of Cementir Holding N.V. have examined and approved the consolidated unaudited results for the first nine months and the third quarter of 2020.

The cement producer in Argentina has announced its results for the three-month and nine-month period ended 30 September 2020.

In Schleswig-Holstein, Holcim is currently attempting to relocate the European crayfish, which is threatened with extinction, at various disused gravel ponds and thus enable the species to survive in Schleswig-Holstein.

The company has agreed the disposal of certain assets to Tillicoultry Quarries Limited for £12.2 million on a cash and debt free basis.

The company has been named by the Portland Cement Association as a 2020 PCA Chairman’s Manufacturing Performance Award winner for its innovative ‘Efficient Alternative Fuel Handling for Main Burner Firing’ system.

The company has invested over £600 000 into its UK rail network this year, to increase safety standards and reliability while providing opportunities to grow and enhance service levels.

The company has shared its promising Q3 results, and anticipates that operating EBITDA for the full year 2020 will be above the previous year.