European cement news

The Global Cement and Concrete Association has appointed Deputy Chief Executive and Industrial Affairs Director of CEMBUREAU, Claude Loréa, as its new Cement Director.

The new Ecocem plant is equipped with storage facilities, a mixer, and a vertical mill, mixer on a 4 ha. plot in the Port of Dunkirk.

The ORC will be installed at Cementi Rossi’s plant in Pederobba, Italy, and will recover exhaust heat from the clinker cooling plant.

Trade unions are being consulted on the transaction and its completion is expected over the summer.

French solid recovered fuel manufacture Environnement 48 invested in a second UNTHA shredder to increase capacity to 10 000 tpy.

Joined by company employees, the management of Dyckerhoff Ukraine, partner companies, YUGcement customers and suppliers, and regional representatives from state authorities, Buzzi Unicem celebrated the 50th anniversary of the YUGcement plant.

The 2400 tpd Duna Drava Cement clinker line in Vác has been successfully re-commissioned and put into production in April 2018.

The first clinker was received on schedule at HeidelbergCement’s Burglengenfeld cement works in Germany in April 2018, after two years of construction.

The Making Concrete Change: Innovation in Low-carbon Cement and Concrete report argues that although the sector has made some progress reducing its emissions, any progress made has been more than matched by increasing demand.

HeidelbergCement will use digitalisation, improvements in core markets, and asset sales to boots its free cash flow generation.