Europe & CIS

Cemex Ventures has increased its stake in HiiROC, a startup with a novel proprietary process for low-cost, zero emission hydrogen production.

Tarmac’s Peter Kay, and the team at the National Skills and Safety Park, have been recognised as national leaders in social mobility.

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has welcomed plans announced to level the carbon cost playing field between UK cement production and imports.

The company has signed a Grant Agreement for the large-scale Carbon Capture project IFESTOS.

EU Innovation Fund backs Heidelberg Materials' GeZero project with €191 million.

Loesche has announced its commitment to sustainable innovation as it unveils a second sustainability report.

The World Cement Association (WCA) has endorsed global government efforts to advance low-carbon cement and concrete production, announced at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai.

Holcim launches Phoenix, the first-of-its-kind 3D-printed concrete masonry bridge built with 10 tons of recycled materials, at its Innovation Hub in Europe.

For the first time, a deal has been agreed at COP – the UN climate summit, which agrees to countries moving away from the use of fossil fuels.

Claudio Piccino, Simon Welzmiller and Raphael Yerly, Thermo Fisher Scientific, illustrate how analytical techniques in the cement industry enhance quality control and efficiency.

Building materials supplier Aggregate Industries, a member of the Holcim Group, is further strengthening its sustainable cement offering for London and the South East as it breaks ground on a nine-acre facility in a prime location on the River Thames.

The GCCA has launched the third programme in its Innovandi brand, the Innovandi Entrepreneur Network.

John Terembula, FLSmidth, discusses ways to reduce the clinker factor using existing technologies and materials.

This cement has now been categorised as Vertua® Supreme, the latest addition to Cemex’s Vertua lower carbon cement range.

Global technology intelligence firm ABI Research explains that this has driven a surge in digitalisation investment.