Cement News tagged under: Aggregate Industries
Aggregate Industries recruits CCUS specialist29 July 2024, Published under Cement NewsAggregate Industries has welcomed Tom Murphy to the team in the role of Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) Project Manager. Mr Murphy joins from Tata Chemical Europe where he was plant manager for a post combustion carbon capture plant. Prior to that he held a number of roles in the steel industry. At Aggregate Industries he will be responsible for the introduction of a carbon capture facility at the company’s Cauldon cement plant in Staffordshire, UK. “I’m really excited t... |
Aggregates Industries UK names new CEO24 July 2024, Published under Cement NewsHolcim has announced Lee Sleight as the new CEO of Aggregate Industries UK . He will take up his position on 1 August 2024. Mr Sleight joined the business in 2021 as managing director of the ready-mixed concrete division and in his time there transformed the business. Last year he moved to take up the role as managing director of the aggregates division. He has more than 20 years of experience in the construction industry holding various senior leadership positions. Outgoing CEO ... |
Loesche wins UK mill order12 July 2024, Published under Cement NewsLoesche has been awarded an order by Aggregate Industries UK Ltd ( Holcim group ) for the delivery of a grinding plant for the Port of Tilbury, London, in 2025. The centrepiece of this plant will be a Loesche vertical roller mill type LM30.2 CS. The scope of supply includes a LSKS dynamic classifier, process filters, nuisance filters, hot gas generator, mill fan, structural steelwork and ducting. The new facility is designed for Aggregate Industries to supply customers 24h/day with conve... |
Aggregate Industries to establish Southampton import facility20 February 2024, Published under Cement NewsAggregate Industries ’ cement business is expanding by establishing a new cement storage facility for deepsea shipping lines at the Port of Southampton, UK. As part of a 20-year agreement , Aggregate Industries will be working with port owner Associated British Ports and industry-leading cargo handler Solent Stevedores, who will be operating the cement import facility. This latest investment will help the business maintain a continuous supply of lower-carbon cementitious products thro... |
Aggregate Industries breaks ground on new Tilbury plant14 December 2023, Published under Cement NewsAggregate Industries has broken ground on its new low-carbon cement production unit at the Port of Tilbury in the UK. The new facility will enable the company to supply its customers with conventional, low carbon, and circular cementitious materials from five loading heads. The primary objective of the new unit is to meet increasing demand for sustainable building materials. As well as providing an import hub, this major investment includes new plant equipment for manufacturing blended... |
Aggregate Industries to use waste ceramics as alternative fuel28 November 2023, Published under Cement NewsThousands of tonnes of waste ceramics from one of the UK’s largest ceramic tile manufacturers will be recycled to make cement as part of a new initiative from Aggregates Industries . Aggregate Industries has agreed a four-year deal with Johnson Tiles to take 20,000t of legacy waste and broken production scrap a year from its Stoke factory. The tiles will make the short trip from the factory to Aggregate Industries’ Cauldon cement plant in Staffordshire, where it will be used as an alterna... |
Aggregate Industries appoints group strategy and commercial growth director23 November 2023, Published under Cement NewsAggregate Industries , part of Holcim , has appointed Kaziwe Kaulule as its new group strategy and commercial growth director. With a career spanning over 19 years with the Holcim Group, Mr Kaulule brings extensive experience to the role, including operations, digital transformation, business development, and mergers and acquisitions. His most recent role was as chief executive officer (CEO) at Lafarge Industries South Africa . He has also served as CEO at Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe and h... |
Aggregate Industries harnesses AI to improve tanker driver safety12 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsAggregate Industries , working with its partner Lomas Distribution, has become the first cement manufacturer in the UK to install new artificial intelligence (AI) technology to prevent cement tanker drivers from falling asleep at the wheel. The Driver Status Monitoring System, developed by Spillard Vehicle Safety Systems, uses a range of in-cab cameras and sensors to actively detect driver fatigue. The intelligent algorithm helps track and detect eye movements like rapid blinking, facial... |
Implications of EU's call to ban climate-neutral offsetting06 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsThe EU institutions finalised a new law on 19 September 2023 to enact a sweeping ban to combat erroneous claims of sustainability. Companies will be prevented from 'greenwashing', a term used to describe the practice of making misleading claims about a product's climate friendliness. Gilles Dufrasane, policy lead at Carbon Market Watch, says: "The EU is sending a powerful signal to the voluntary carbon market: the era of offsetting is over." What does this mean for the cement sector? For ... |
EcoPact range gains EPD status10 August 2023, Published under Cement NewsAggregate Industries ( Holcim ) has further invested in its sustainability commitments by obtaining Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for its range of concrete solutions, including its low-carbon concrete ECOPact range. In a UK first for ready-mix concrete products, Aggregate Industries has invested in individual product and plant EPDs for its London Concrete business. This includes the ECOPact product range, the world’s lowest range of low-carbon concrete, DYNAMax High Performan... |