Europe & CIS

The company has completed the latest phase of its share buyback programme, returning a further $1.0 billion of cash to shareholders.

This initiative launched during COP28, pledges to accelerate the decarbonisation of heavy industries on a large scale.

The company is part of the HYIELD consortium, which has been awarded a €10 million grant from the European Union for the R&D to develop a Waste to Hydrogen demonstration plant.

The company is entering the European market with the export of its cement to the United Kingdom.

This partnership aims to develop the company's clay-based 0% clinker cements in particular.

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.