The first cement-carrying ship arrives at Aggregate Industries’ new cement storage facility at the Port of Southampton, following a multi-million pound upgrade
Partnership calls for commercially mature carbon capture and storage projects to be provided with a clear alternative route to market, to unlock private investment to ensure the UK can hit its net-zero targets
Pascal Gonnon, Global Senior Manager for cement, mortar and concrete applications, Omya UK - Replacing traditional cement with high clinker content swiftly reduces mortar and concrete's carbon footprint, as cement accounts for 70% of it. Research suggests limestone and metakaolin could replace current clinker production.
Ian Riley, CEO, World Cement Association - We have become used to the idea that concrete has a large carbon footprint, but does that really have to be the case? Ian argues that we already know how to make concrete with much lower carbon footprint and significantly better resource efficiency. We are seeing innovation progress in 4 key areas and taken together these developments offer the prospect that for at least some applications we may be able to reach carbon neutrality or even net sequestration of CO2.
Sam Draper, CEO & Co-founder, Seratech gives an overview of Seratech’s approach to decarbonise cement production. Seratech is a spin-out company from Imperial College London that mineralises CO2 within naturally abundant magnesium silicates to produce a siliceous supplementary cementitious material (SCM) for use in ready mix concrete, and magnesium carbonate – a binder for concrete products.
WCA has announced the first line-up of speakers for its 7th annual conference and exhibition, which will take place on 18-19 May 2024 in Nanjing, China
Heidelberg Materials has been selected for funding of up to US$500 million to advance industrial-scale CCUS at its new state-of-the-art cement plant in Mitchell, Indiana, USA