Proprietary technology enables low-carbon cement with 50% less CO2 Delivering up to 500,000 tons of ECOPlanet cement per year Sustainable operation to run with 100% biomass and waste heat recovery system Holcim launches Europe’s first calcined clay cement operation in its Saint-Pierre-la-Cour plant in France to deliver ECOPlanet green cement with 50% lower CO2 footprint compared...
CEMEX announced that Volvo Trucks has supplied it with the world’s first fully electric and zero-emission heavy concrete mixer truck at a joint event in Berlin, Germany. The truck is the latest development of an agreement signed between the companies in 2021 to closely collaborate to improve productivity and carbon emissions reductions through the global...
The UN-backed Scientific Assessment Panel to the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depleting Substances gave us recently an optimistic scenario about the ozone layer – it is on track to recover within four decades. However, the ambitious goal of the cement industry to become climate-neutral by 2050 has to be achieved through digitization – it is...
Japan shut down its power plants in the wake of the nuclear accident and switched to coal and natural gas. The need to move to renewable energy has, of course, been more pressing over the past ten years, and he has started to explore for safe ways to use nuclear energy, which is seen as...
Reaching net zero by 2050 requires finding innovative ways to reduce emissions and decarbonize some of the most polluting sectors and industries. Clean hydrogen can be crucial in minimizing climate change impacts, helping decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors that rely on fossil fuels—such as heavy industry, shipping, and air transport—while contributing to food security, economic growth, and...
– Interview with Dr. Edelio Bermejo, Holcim’s global head of research and development (R&D) and intellectual property (IP), by Guy Woodford, Aggregates Business editor – 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...
A French leader in mobile self-leveling screeds Complementary fit with broader Holcim footprint across France Holcim announces the acquisition of Chrono Chape, one of France’s leading independent providers of on-site self-leveling screeds. These fluid applications are used to create a smooth, even foundation upon which builders can lay the floor’s finish, such as carpet or...
Tata Steel, India ordered a SpectraFlow Crossbelt Analyzer for quality monitoring of its base mix in the sinter plant. SpectraFlow is already installed in the cement, iron ore, gold, platinum, copper, potash, bauxite, and recycling industries while expanding the applications continuously within the individual industries and into new fields. This will be the first Crossbelt...
On November 10-11 CarbonZero Global Conference and Exhibition brought together the most brilliant minds and top experts to find and outline the most effective and high-importance solutions for decarbonizing the cement industry which is responsible for almost 8 % of CO2 emissions. The topics that make the agenda of the biggest Cement and Construction companies...
Votorantim Cimentos, a building materials and sustainable solutions company, is introducing its new corporate brand: more contemporary and representative of the diversity of its people, products and businesses, combining tradition, innovation and a vision of the future. The new visual identity seeks to connect the company’s strategic objectives and sustainability commitments with the process of...