European cement news

Pierre-Marie Maurice, Total Lubrifiants, explains how downtime and production loss can be avoided when cleaning open-gears in cement plants.

Aker Solutions’ post-combustion technology is intended to capture and liquify 400 000 tpy of the released carbon dioxide at the Norcem plant, Norway.

The company has shared its annual financial results for 2019 and discussed its outlook for 2020.

Global construction output is expected to contract as a result of the economic shock caused by the lockdown measures, which were enforced due to the coronavirus.

The company has announced a connector as part of its BHA portfolio to be used with pleated filter elements. The connector allows two, two-metre pleated filters to be joined together without the use of any tools.

The company estimates that the output of the Eastern European construction industry will be severely impacted by COVID-19 containment measures in 2020, and that the Western European construction industry will contract by 5.1%.

Catherine Kerninon, EUROSAC, and Kennert Johansson, CEPI Eurokraft, discuss the results of a recent study by Sintef which investigated the shelf life of paper and plastic cement sacks.

The company is to introduce short-time work for employees in Germany, while the Supervisory Board and the Management Board of the company are to waive 20 % of their fixed salaries in Q2 2020.

The company has donated an authentic mock-up model of a supermobile concrete mixing plant type EUROMIX to the vocational school for ready-mixed concrete technology and concrete production technology in Freistadt.

The Vicat Group has shared a summary of the Group's Combined Annual General Meeting, held 03 April, including an overview of how the company has been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.