
UK start up Material Evolution raises £15 million in initial funding round
Material Evolution, a British start up based in Middlesbrough, has raised £15 million in Series A funding to scale-up production of its low-carbon cement.
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Material Evolution, a British start up based in Middlesbrough, has raised £15 million in Series A funding to scale-up production of its low-carbon cement.

The announcement marks the end of the road for unsustainable tyre disposal.

Aggregate Industries has taken delivery of the next generation of cement tanker fuelled by a green bio-fuel in a UK first.

CEMCOR's Cookstown plant in Northern Ireland has completed a £6 million sustainability upgrade, including replacing the plant's bag filter.

Carbon8, the UK cleantech company that specialises in carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) has appointed Paul Drennan-Durose as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Cemex has been trialling the use of existing pre-cast material in its concrete products, including solutions made of up to 100% recycled aggregates.

Dr Diana Casey, Mineral Products Association, gives an overview on the current state of the British cement industry and what benefits and hurdles lie ahead for operators in the UK.

Holcim acquires Besblock Ltd, a leading supplier of precast materials to the UK Midlands construction industry.

Green-fingered volunteers and staff from leading building materials supplier aggregate industries have planted more than a thousand trees on the site of one of its Devon quarries.

Cement 2 Zero (C2Z), a UK-based demonstrator project to trial the world’s first zero-emissions cement on an industrial scale, was officially launched this week having successfully conducted the first in a series of pilot-scale melts.

However, the MPA is concerned about the lack of further detail about the future of energy price support for businesses after the Energy Bills Relief Scheme’s initial period ends in March.

The WCA announces that it is welcoming Carbon Upcycling Technologies, a waste and carbon utilisation company, as an Associate Corporate Member.