Europe & CIS

Kant Cement Plant, JSC, part of United Cement Group, upgrades its equipment to increase thermal efficiency.

Menzel Elektromotoren launched the construction work for its new plant in Hennigsdorf on the outskirts of Berlin with the laying of the foundation stone on 11 June 2022.

The FAM Group of Magdeburg, a supplier of conveyor systems and loading technology, is now wholly owned by the BEUMER Group, Beckum.

In the Karsdorf plant of OPTERRA Zement GmbH, the 'small' complete filling and packing plant for bagged cements has been proving its huge advantages since March 2021.

The materials technology company Betolar has been granted a patent for a method and arrangement for treating and converting waste material into a reinforcing binder. In the future, the binder can be utilised commercially. Hence it creates value for the waste material now generating costs.

Representatives of Re-Gen Waste have visited Holcim in Spain to see the process behind the ECOPlanet range of green cement.

After two years of social distancing, the members of EUROSAC got together for a physical congress on 20 May in Bilbao. Under the theme “Paper sacks on the move!”, around 130 participants discussed recent developments for the fast-developing paper sack and sack kraft paper industry.

The research company CI4C has commissioned Thyssenkrupp's Polysius business unit to build a polysius pure oxyfuel kiln system on the site of the Mergelstetten cement plant in southern Germany.

Holcim and the Norman Foster Foundation are partnering to rethink emergency shelters to turn them into sustainable and resilient homes.

Schenck Process was approached by The A TEC Group, working on behalf of LAFARGE Cement Hungary Ltd. LAFARGE was looking to install a new alternative fuel concept at a Királyegyháza cement plant, near Pécs in Hungary.

Supported by investments in transport infrastructure projects, in line with the German government’s focus on improving regional connectivity, the country’s construction industry is expected to regain growth momentum and expand by 1.9% this year.

Hanson’s Ketton cement works in Rutland is part of a new BEIS-funded carbon capture project, through its Net Zero Innovation Portfolio, which aims to provide a low-cost solution to decarbonisation.

ABB launches a new generation probe for cement kilns which will help increase safety and, by enabling the measurement of alternative fuels, sustainability.

C-Capture will use the funding to finance a major, national £2.7m project today as a critical step in the race to net zero.

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. and its partners have announced the inauguration of the Carbon Neutral Alliance, which aims to accelerate the development of innovative technologies designed to transform CEMEX’s Rüdersdorf plant into the first carbon-neutral cement facility by 2030.