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Cementos Molins acquires Tecnoresil

11 April 2023, Published under Cement News

Cementos Molins has acquired 100 per cent of Tecnoresil, a company that manufactures and distributes chemical products for industrial and decorative flooring, through its construction solutions subsidiary Propamsa. With this acquisition, Cementos Molins strengthens its strategy of expanding its range of construction solutions. With the acquisition of Tecnoresil, a company with over two decades of experience in the sector, Cementos Molins has expanded its range of continuous flooring sol...

Hanson Padeswood to form part of new UK CCUS clusters

06 April 2023, Published under Cement News

The UK Government has confirmed Hanson ’s Padeswood carbon capture and storage project, based in  north Wales, UK, as one of eight projects to be taken forward to negotiations to form the basis of the UK’s new carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) clusters. This announcement follows the confirmation in the government’s spring budget of GBP20bn (US$25bn) investment for research into CCUS. Hanson UK is constructing a carbon capture facility at the Padeswood cement works, throug...

Holcim acquires Sivyer Logistics

06 April 2023, Published under Cement News

Holcim has acquired Sivyer Logistics, a leading producer of recycled construction and demolition waste (CDW) for the London construction market. Sivyer currently handles around 1Mta of materials, using state-of-the-art recycling and recovery technologies to recover over 500,000t of recycled aggregates and manufactured soils. The acquisition represents a further step toward driving circular construction to make cities more sustainable, according to Holcim. Miljan Gutovic, region head Eu...

Flender Group appoints new CEO

06 April 2023, Published under Cement News

German drive specialist Flender has announced that Christian Terlinde will take over the company’s Group CFO position starting 1 July 2023. Terlinde is currently Group CFO at German commercial vehicle supplier Jost Werke SE.   Flender Group CEO, Andreas Evertz, said: “I am very happy that we could win Christian Terlinde for Flender. He is the finance and controlling expert that we have been looking for. His strong experience as CFO in international industrial and automotive companies as...

Italian cement output advances 4% in January 2023

05 April 2023, Published under Cement News

Italian cement production increased by four per cent YoY in January 2023, according to the country’s construction chamber, Federbeton. When compared with the 2015 base index production the value slipped from 69 in December to 66 in January. Cement prices in January 2023 edged up MoM to 212 from 210 in December 2022 when compared with the base year of 2015 (=100). Federbeton reported a 39 per cent increase when compared with January 2022. External trade Grey cement imports in December 202...

Buxton Net Zero project passes due diligence funding phase

05 April 2023, Published under Cement News

Tarmac ( CRH ) and LEILAC have moved a step closer to delivering the world’s first zero emissions lime plant, with the UK Government’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) announcing that the Buxton Lime Net Zero project has successfully passed the due diligence phase of the Industrial Carbon Capture (ICC) funding scheme. LEILAC ’s technology uses a unique indirect heating approach to keep unavoidable process emissions uncontaminated, thereby enabling its efficient ca...

Hanson UK wins planning permission for new Padeswood SRF facility

03 April 2023, Published under Cement News

Flintshire Council's planning committee has granted permission for a new solid revered fuel (SRF) facility at Heidelberg Material 's subsidary  Hanson UK ’s Padeswood cement site, which represents a GBP4m (US$4.95m/EUR4.55m) investment and will safeguard 177 jobs. The development will be in an area currently used to park trailers, with an internal access road, and an electricity substation using SRF as an alternative fuel source.  The project will refine SRF to make it suitable for ...

Holcim to invest over US$2bn in CCUS

31 March 2023, Published under Cement News

Holcim plans to invest CHF2bn (US$2.187bn) by 2030 in carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technologies to capture more than 5Mt of CO 2 each year. According to its second climate report, the company aims to reach 420kg of CO 2 per tonne of cementitious materials by 2030.  Jan Jenisch, CEO of Holcim, said, “Holcim is accelerating its climate action with upgraded net zero targets and a clear commitment to invest CHF2bn in CCUS technologies by 2030. We are committed to scalin...

Spain's cement market contracts 7% in February

31 March 2023, Published under Cement News

Cement consumption in Spain has fallen 7.1 per cent YoY to 1,175,290t in February, reports Oficemen. The association’s Managing Director, Aniceto Zaragoza, points that in February 2022 market growth was high at 14 per cent YoY and the month saw the highest February demand volumes in the last decade. Compared with the first two months of 2022, domestic consumption declined 2.9 per cent in the January-February 2023 period. Exports were down 17.2 per cent YoY in February 2023, resulting in ...

First FLSmidth FUELFLEX® Pyrolyzer installed at Mannok

31 March 2023, Published under Cement News

FLSmidth has celebrated the installation of its   FUELFLEX ® Pyrolyzer at Mannok Cement , Ireland. The world’s first FUELFLEX ® Pyrolyzer has been successfully been in operation at the Mannok plant since July 2022.    Mannok now controls NO x emissions without needing to use ammonia water and increase alternative fuels utilisation, thus putting the plant firmly on the path to achieve its 2030 Vision target of reducing CO 2  emissions by 33 per cent compared to 2020 levels.   T...