Europe & CIS

Lindner, manufacturer of recycling solutions, continues its expansion course, establishing Lindner France with Croupe Cimme.

As part of a new era for the Materials Handling Engineers’ Association (MHEA), the executive committee has announced new plans this year to help its members and wider industry tackle sustainability.

T. Rothardt and C. Rüttling, SEW-Eurodrive, discuss the replacement of the girth gears in two ball mills at a Czech cement plant.

The event witnessed the presence of Roger Torrent, Minister of Business and Labour of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

Dr Jan Weckes was appointed Managing Director of SCHADE Lagertechnik GmbH, Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Heidelberg Materials has become the first heavy building materials manufacturer in the UK to reach the updated PAS 2080:2023 standard on managing and reducing whole-life carbon in the built environment.

P-D Refractories recorded revenues of €171 million in the year to 31 December 2022 and had Gross Assets of €187 million at 31 December 2022.

The first trial melt has been completed as part of the Cement 2 Zero project, which aims to develop the world’s first zero-emissions cement on an industrial scale.

Hanson UK has become Heidelberg Materials, aligning with its parent company which announced its new global branding in September 2022.

Cemex agrees to acquire Kiesel, a mortars and adhesives technological leader with more than 60 years of experience in the construction materials industry.

This new name unites all the important aspects: the companies involved behind the group, the industry competence, and the expertise that enables quality-assured services.

Together, the partners will explore the development and deployment of an innovative modular clean energy solution that will convert waste heat into clean and affordable electricity.

The new three-year deal with class-leading Enterprise Asset Management specialist, Peacock Engineering Ltd. The move comes as the company looks to further invest in improving processes, sustainability and reducing the carbon footprint of its Cookstown plant.

The digitally enabled programme, CoachUP!, is the latest addition to Cemex EMEA’s existing portfolio of leadership development programmes and capability-building academies, unified under the award-winning Cemex University organisation.

Capsol Technologies has been awarded feasibility studies for the CapsolEoP® (end-of-pipe) carbon capture technology at two large cement plants in the EU with the potential to capture more than 1.5 million t of CO2 per annum combined. The studies will start in Q3 2023.