The Cementitious Materials International Technical and Trade Congress which was held in Casablanca, Morocco on April 18-19 was a highly praised and sold out event. It brought together experts from around the world to discuss how cementitious materials (SCMs) can be reused within the cement and construction industries. This gathering has been made more significant...
CEMEX’s update to its Green Financing Framework aligns it with its more ambitious decarbonization goals announced in 2022. Through this update, CEMEX will strengthen financing avenues for innovative technology needed to reach carbon neutrality. CEMEX announced that it has updated its Green Financing Framework to align it with its more ambitious decarbonization goals. The update...
CEMEX announced that the U.S. Department of Energy awarded US$3.2 million to Solar MEAD, a joint project headed by CEMEX, Sandia National Laboratories, and Synhelion, which aims to decarbonize cement production. Solar MEAD aims to replace the use of fossil fuels with concentrated solar thermal (“CST”) energy in clinker production, the key component in cement....
The cement manufacturing process is highly intensive in heat consumption and carbon emissions. Stakeholders are increasing pressure to decarbonize not only the cement industry but the construction industry, too. But how we can achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 by implementing actual and effective solutions? Edgar Martinez, Sustainability Senior Director at Cementos Argos will approach this...
HeidelbergCement has acquired six ready-mixed concrete plants and one sandpit via its Czech subsidiary Českomoravský beton, a.s. from Kámen Zbraslav, a.s. in the Moravia region in the Eastern part of the Czech Republic. All plants have a well-established residential and commercial customer base around the city of Brno, with a high demand for sustainable building solutions.