The Americas

Imran Akram, IA Cement, provides a summary of the Cement 2024 research report, which details expected trends, risks, and trade flows for the cement industry in 2024.

Moore brings to this newly created role a 35-year track record of success in manufacturing and supply chain management, business process, operational excellence, product innovation, public affairs, strategy and business development.

Greentown Labs and Saint-Gobain have announced six startup participants for Greentown Go Build 2023 – a programme focused on accelerating startup-corporate partnerships to advance circularity and decarbonisation.

CemAI, Inc. has teamed up with Continental Cement Company L.L.C.'s Hannibal, MO plant to install CemAI's predictive and prescriptive maintenance solution.

Summit Materials announced that ISS and Glass Lewis have recommended that Summit shareholders vote in favor of all proposals regarding its pending combination with Argos North America Corp.

The company's cement plants in Edmonton, Alberta, and Delta, British Columbia, have earned Natural Resources Canada’s (NRCan’s) ENERGY STAR for Industry Certification.

Hoffman Green has announced the signing of an agreement with a partner, defining the main points of an exclusive licensing agreement to build several Hoffmann units in Florida.

The company has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in IMPTEK Chova del Ecuador.

With renewable energy initiatives implemented or on the way, Holcim will power 45% of operations with renewable energy.

David Perkins, Heidelberg Materials, discusses the new alternative fuels and CCUS projects taking place at the Edmonton Cement Plant, marking a step forward on the company’s sustainability journey.

The World Cement Association (WCA) has endorsed global government efforts to advance low-carbon cement and concrete production, announced at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai.

For the first time, a deal has been agreed at COP – the UN climate summit, which agrees to countries moving away from the use of fossil fuels.

Claudio Piccino, Simon Welzmiller and Raphael Yerly, Thermo Fisher Scientific, illustrate how analytical techniques in the cement industry enhance quality control and efficiency.

The GCCA has launched the third programme in its Innovandi brand, the Innovandi Entrepreneur Network.

John Terembula, FLSmidth, discusses ways to reduce the clinker factor using existing technologies and materials.