European cement news

The project has received the go ahead from the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy. WESTKÜSTE100 will allow preparations to be made for an environmentally friendly (oxyfuel) combustion process for the Lägerdorf cement plant.

Within the first seven months of 2020, the enterprises of Eurocement group shipped abroad 329 000 t – a record volume of cement.

The latest statistics released by the Mineral Products Association (MPA) show that sales of heavy-side building materials saw unprecedented declines during the second quarter of the year.

Despite the weak demand in many countries due to the coronavirus and the corresponding declines in revenue, the result from the company’s current operations remained almost at the level of the previous year.

Taiheiyo Engineering Corporation has ordered three AUMUND Bucket Elevators and an AUMUND Drag Chain Conveyor for its biomass-fuelled power plant in Ofunato, Japan.

The company has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2020 and has suggested that recovery is underway.

The company’s ‘Operation Resilience’ initiative has translated into higher margins, despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The company has decided to disclose preliminary key figures ahead of the scheduled Q2 2020 interim report. The full Q2 2020 interim report will be released as scheduled on 04 August 2020.

The company has recently announced that it will relocate to a larger building to address existing space constraints and to allow for future growth of the operation.

The company has announced that it has obtained a €200 million loan guaranteed by the French State.