European cement news

Ken McKnight, Member of the CRH Executive Committee, is elected President, and Jon Morrish, CEO Western & Southern Europe, Heidelberg Cement, as Vice-President.

A project led by Umeå University, Nordkalk AB, and the Swedish Energy Agency has reduced carbon dioxide emissions from lime kilns in Sweden by more than 36 000 tpy.

Cement decarbonisation pioneer Fortera has joined the Alliance for Low Carbon Cement and Concrete (ALCCC), alongside international NGO ECOS and ten other inaugural alliance members to make low-carbon cement the norm.

A new ground-breaking study by the multi-stakeholder Alliance modelled different mitigation scenarios, in which the clinker-to-cement ratio in Europe incrementally decreases to 60%, 50%, or 40% by 2050.

A CO2 capture process, jointly developed by Linde, Heidelberg Materials, and BASF, and based on BASF’s advanced OASE blue technology, will be used for the first time at a large-scale CO2-capture facility operated by Capture-to-Use (CAP2U).

As part of today's Choose France summit, Heidelberg Materials announced the investment of €65 million to accelerate the decarbonisation of its Bussac-Forêt cement plant in the west of France.

The Board of Directors of Cementir Holding N.V. recently examined and approved the consolidated unaudited results for the first quarter of 2023.

Betolar, the innovative materials technology company, is challenging the current use of cement in construction with its Geoprime solution at London’s Concrete Expo.

Harbour Energy and BP are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement to develop the Viking CCS transportation and storage project.

KGAL Investment Management has signed long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Lafarge Cement Polska for the Krasin and Rywald onshore wind farms.