Cemex news

Cemex has reached a sales milestone for Vertua net zero CO2 concrete in Colombia, surpassing 100 000 m3 of this product, enough to fill 40 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Cemex’s circular waste management business, Regenera, is expanding its operations in Mexico with the opening of a new facility in partnership with leading waste collection company PASA.

Colombia's Santa Rosa cement plant is now the first Cemex facility in its South, Central America and the Caribbean (SCAC) region to attain water self-sufficiency.

Cemex has been trialling the use of existing pre-cast material in its concrete products, including solutions made of up to 100% recycled aggregates.

Cemex's conservation efforts in the El Carmen Nature Reserve completed the first breeding cycle of the American bison; therefore, in 2023, the initiative achieved the first 100% native offspring at the ecological reserve.

The trials are the latest example of the efforts to reach a 2050 goal of operating as a net zero company globally.

Cemex is collaborating with Tecnológico de Monterrey on distritotec, a 15-year project that seeks to evolve the campus into a more innovative, sustainable, and inclusive space that is better integrated with its surrounding community.

The programme supports Cemex’s efforts to increase the use of rail to move its materials, as part of its Future in Action sustainability strategy.

Cemex and Ecocem have a long history of collaboration, with Ecocem supplying Cemex France with raw materials for many years.

Cemex USA announced today it has finalised an acquisition that secures new long-term aggregates reserves, expanding its aggregates footprint and further strengthening the company’s position in aggregate constrained markets.