Concrete Plants, Equipment & Applications

Heidelberg Materials says it returned good business figures in 2022 with group revenue increasing by 13% to an all-time high of €21.1bn.

Global building materials supplier CEMEX has adapted its production process to provide Network Rail with a never-seen-before concrete bearer for a challenging rail replacement project at Lewisham Station in London, UK. 

CEMEX says it is the first company to introduce lower carbon Cement & Concrete in the United Arab Emirates.

Holcim is launching what it says is Europe’s first calcined clay cement operation at its Saint-Pierre-la-Cour plant in France.

The World Cement Association (WCA) has appointed three new directors to its board.

Cement 2 Zero (C2Z), a UK-based demonstrator project to trial the world’s first zero-emissions cement on an industrial scale, was officially launched this week, having successfully conducted the first in a series of pilot-scale melts.

The official shortlist has been unveiled in the 'Concrete in Life' global photography competition, celebrating the beauty and essential role that concrete plays in communities and the built environment worldwide.

More than 14,000 entries were submitted from every major continent by both amateur and professional photographers for this year's competition, run by the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA). 

Haver & Boecker has brought out The Procheck Guide for Cement Packing Plants that collects practical knowledge for the sustainable optimisation of its packing plants in the cement industry.