Europe

Ecocem, a leading European provider of low-carbon cement technologies, has been made an industry partner of the SFI Industry RD&I Fellowship Programme.

The Supervisory Board of Heidelberg Materials has appointed Dr Katharina Beumelburg as a new member of the Managing Board and Chief Sustainability & New Technologies Officer, effective 1 October 2024. Katharina Beumelburg will succeed Dr Nicola Kimm who will leave the company after completing her three-year term of office on 31 August 2024. 

At the start of June 2024, the Wacker Neuson Group put its new spare parts logistics centre in Mülheim-Kärlich, Germany, into operation after 1.5 years of construction. The state-of-the-art logistics site is strategically positioned between the Frankfurt am Main and Cologne/Bonn airports. It is, therefore, ideally located for connection to the international transport networks. In an area of 55,000 square meters, around 100,000 different spare parts for construction equipment and compact machines are stored.

Magway, a pioneering developer of zero-emission goods transport systems, is set to showcase its innovative magnetic propulsion bulk material handling technology at Wincanton’s W² Innovation Centre.

Heidelberg Materials has successfully placed its first Green Bond as part of its recently published Green Finance Framework. The issue volume amounts to €700 million with a term until 2034.