European cement news

The company is to continue working with recycled concrete after conducting projects in which recycled material was used as Holcim exposed concrete.

The company notes that while cement demand still appears to be high, the coronavirus pandemic has created uncertainty for the industry.

The company has announced that it will join some of the world’s leading cement and concrete companies in the ‘2050 Climate Ambition’, which aims to deliver a society with carbon neutral concrete by 2050.

Forty of the world’s leading cement and concrete companies have unveiled a joint industry ‘2050 Climate Ambition’. The ambition statement demonstrates the commitment of the industry across the globe to drive down the carbon footprint of the world’s most used man-made product.

The company has appointed Regional Presidents for Australia and South America and has confirmed the start date of the incoming Regional President for India.

The 2019 Holcim Germany Group is to publish the environmental performances of the production sites Beckum, Bremen, Dortmund, Dotternhausen, Duisburg, Duisburg-Schwelgern, Höver, Lägerdorf and Salzgitter.

The bicycle and walkway bridge in Gratkorn, Styria, submitted by Rohrdorfer Transportbeton, was chosen as the winner of the Güteverband Transportbeton (GVTB) concrete prize in the infrastructure category.

The CEMPROSPECTS conference will be held in Porto, Portgual, from 05 – 07 October and will cover the latest insights into markets of relevance to the cement industry.

Every construction sector in Great Britain has shown at least 33% growth in July, compared to June, with up to 98% growth in certain sectors.

K.P. Schloeder and S. Schmid, Dyckerhoff GmbH, and M. Giavazzi and L. Maiocchi, Boldrocchi Srl, show how two companies joined forces to implement a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system at the Deuna cement plant in order to reduce NOx emissions.