Corporate brand Heidelberg Materials revealed at headquarters in Heidelberg today New brand identity underlines the company’s pioneering role on the path to carbon neutrality and digitalisation in the building materials industry Domestic and international subsidiaries will gradually change their name...

KEO International Consultants has been named a winner in the Corporate Building category at the Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards 2022 with the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) Headquarters building. The world’s first and oldest annual global design awards program and...

The cement and construction industries are among the highest CO2 emissions generators in the world. The cement industry alone accounts for 8% of global emissions, not far behind the agriculture industry with 12% [ref]. In 2021, the cement industries were...

Funding for the upcoming FEED study has been granted by the U.S. Department of Energy The study will evaluate the feasibility of the project in Mitchell, Indiana, aiming to capture 95% of the local cement plant’s CO2 emissions This corresponds...

Nexus Fulbright Scholar and Marie Curie Fellow Mauricio Giraldo, Alternative Fuels Director at Cementos Argos Colombia, will approach “Road to net zero: Achieving quantity and quality of alternative fuels in developing economies”. The intervention will take place this November at...

CarbonZero Global Conference and Exhibition is welcoming the Federation of the European Precast Concrete Industry (BIBM) as a strategic partner. The Federation’s members can now attend CarbonZero: Alternative Fuels and Raw Materials Global Conference and Exhibition 2022 with significant discounts....

Despite the slowdown in the world economy, Votorantim Cimentos continues to operate within solid financial metrics and with high liquidity, maintaining its investment grade status with a stable outlook attributed by the credit rating agencies Moody’s and Fitch. The company’s leverage remained at stable levels and in line with our financial policy. In May, we carried out a transaction in the international market that repurchased the most expensive debt in our portfolio, taking advantage of attractive market rates. And we used funds from debt issuances in the local market with more attractive rates to finance our operation,” said Bianca Nasser, Global CFO of Votorantim Cimentos.

HeidelbergCement and its Swedish subsidiary Cementa present positive results of a pre-feasibility study for the Slite CCS (carbon capture and storage) project The installation at the Slite cement plant on the Swedish island of Gotland will be scaled to capture...

Acquisition of Cajun Ready Mix Concrete includes eight plants Footprint strengthened in dynamic Baton Rouge, Louisiana region Cajun is a recognized leader in innovation, service and quality  Holcim acquired Cajun Ready Mix Concrete, the largest in its sector in the...

The joint venture partners will construct one of the first industrial-scale flash calciners worldwide to produce calcined clay cement with reduced clinker content CO2 emissions from clay calcination are significantly below emissions from clinker production, thus substantially lowering the CO2...