Concrete Plants, Equipment & Applications

Holcim Group-owned LEC has selected Italian firm Turboden for the installation of a waste heat recovery system at its cement plant in Fujairah, UAE.

European cement association CEMBUREAU, in collaboration with WindEurope, EuCIA, EBI, Cefic UP/VE, Cefic Epoxy Europe, and Glass Fibre Europe, has released a position paper highlighting the important role cement co-processing can play in treating end-of-life composite materials.

CleanTech company Progressive Planet has signed a purchase agreement with Lafarge Canada.

Northern Ireland-headquartered Rapid International was the number one choice to supply a new batching plant for Lincolnshire-based start-up business Geo Concrete Products, a subsidiary of Geo Quarries Ltd, which operates a quarry at Little Ponton north of Colsterworth near Grantham. 

Aggregate Industries says it has completed a record 750m3 weekly concrete pours over the course of eight weeks to support the turbine infrastructure of the new multi-million pound Longhill Burn wind farm project in Scotland.

The World Cement Association (WCA) has welcomed French industrial engineering services company Chovet as an associate corporate member.

Cemex Ventures has launched a Construction Startup Competition to find solutions with the most potential to transform the construction industry in areas such as sustainability, supply chain and productivity. 

Holcim US has announced a clean energy investment in northeast Michigan with a new partnership to bring the company's largest solar project in the Midwest to its cement plant in Alpena.