Cement

Two associations will work together to help accelerate decarbonisation of global cement sector

New partnership to focus on reducing carbon emissions in the cement industry with two-and-a-half-year research project

New research shows UK reclaimed clay and bricks cut carbon emissions in cement and concrete production

Next-generation lower-carbon concrete product uses calcined clay as an alternative supplementary cementitious material

Carbon Upcycling to build carbon sequestration-cement additive plant at CEMEX Rugby, converting CO2 emissions into enhanced cement materials

Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) cover cement products from Rugby and Tilbury plants

New report from the UK’s CCC welcomed by MPA, echoing calls for decarbonisation to be accelerated

UNIDO and GCCA form new partnership to decarbonise the cement and concrete industry, particularly the Global South

Company converts cement plant to a slag grinding facility in Indiana, USA

GCCA conference calls for urgent policy support to achieve Net Zero in cement and concrete industry

Heidelberg Materials Spain will cease clinker production at its Añorga plant, transitioning it to a grinding facility focused on low-carbon cement

Politicians and leaders from the world’s leading cement and concrete manufacturers to focus on decarbonising the industry

Materials Processing Institute completes pilot Electric Arc Furnace trials, a major project milestone for the UKRI Cement 2 Zero project

‘For the first time in history, cement production has the potential to become a net-zero industry’

State-of-the-art plant engineered to produce 2 million tonnes of net-zero cement per annum by 2029

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.

Annual GCCRN gathering aims to drive research into making concrete, the world’s most used human-made material, net zero

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

Nearly 100 tech start-ups apply for a pioneering international programme to decarbonise the world’s most used man-made materials

Sublime Systems secures $87 million in funding from US Department of Energy for low-carbon cement initiative

Restructuring follows a stronger alignment towards low-carbon products and a significant decline in cement sales in France

Minister learns more about plans to create the UK’s first net-zero cement works in north Wales

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

rg+p join development panel to help fast-track the new Zicon housebuilding system

Salt X electric arc calciner reinvents industrial calcination with renewable electricity and carbon capture

Research project will now take place at Heidelberg Materials’ Ennigerloh cement plant

Newly developed micronization process significantly reduces clinker factor per tonne of cement

Aggregate Industries invest in new cement storage facility for deep-sea ships at the Port of Southampton

Existing waste heat recovery collaboration extended to a broad decarbonisation partnership

World Cement Association joins Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism stakeholder communication campaign

Rapid cement industry decarbonisation takes major step forward with European Technical Assessment

Milestone reached as company signs FEED contract with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Worley

Cemex joins CCS+ Initiative to scale climate technologies by developing carbon accounting infrastructure

Lord Callanan visited Rugby cement works to gain an insight into the actions needed to decarbonise the UK’s ‘dispersed’ cement plants

Portfolio optimisation continues with sale of Travel S.a.s to five regional transport specialists

Sublime Systems to manufacture its fossil-fuel-free, scalable alternative to traditional cement in Holyoke, Massachusetts, US

The MPA welcome plans to level the carbon cost playing field between UK cement production and imports

UK’s Nuada partners with four cement companies in effort to decarbonise cement industry.

EU Innovation Fund backs Heidelberg Materials' GeZero project with €191 million

Company receive two awards at COP28

Cemex increase sales in lower-carbon cement range

World's first carbon captured net-zero cement now available in Europe

Company close to obtaining Type III Environmental Product Declarations for all cements

Company to acquire portfolio of cement and ready-mixed concrete assets from Martin Marietta

CRH reaches agreement to divest lime operations in Europe for US$1.1 billion.