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Italcementi has disclosed that it has supplied 18,000tonnes of cement as part of the operation to right the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship. The supplied cement consisted of the firm's Ultracem, Termocem and Plastocem products, chosen especially for their individual properties following extensive tests in Italcementi laboratories. The cement has been used to create an underwater support for the ship during the recovery process. It will be removed once the wreck has been salvaged.

Turkish cement producer, Akcansa, is going to provide ready-mixed concrete for the construction of Istanbul's third bridge on the Bosporus.

For the major works, the company has set up five ready-mixed concrete facilities and two ice units within two months.

The total investment, including the facilities to be built on North Marmara motorway, is expected to amount to €5.61 million (TRY 15 million). The new bridge will be 330m high and will be made of highly durable cement. Akcansa generated €208.14 mil

HeidelbergCement is planning to raise its annual output in India by three times from 5.4 million tonnes to 15 million tonnes in next three to four years, according the company's CEO, Ashish Guha.

The world renowned German firm said it intends to acquire plants with at least 3 million tonnes of annual output to increase capacity, rather than investing €981.65 million (INR 82 billion) to expand using greenfield method.

The hike in Estonia’s environmental taxes, such as the tax on the extraction of mineral resources, should be in compliance with the inflation hike, says Meelis Einstein, chairman of the board of the Association of Construction Material Producers of Estonia.

The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has invented a new method to separate ashes from burnt wastewater sludge and use it for concrete production. DTU has patented a method for electrodialytic separation of secondary raw materials. It is now hoping to enter into cooperation with the construction sector to use the wastewater sludge ashes, that have been purified from phosphorus and heavy metals, as a replacement for cement in concrete production. This could make it possible to market such concrete as a g

Cemex in the Philippines is providing cement for the Millennium Road Project. Part of a US$214 million infrastructure package that will connect 15 municipalities in Samar (a province in the Eastern Visayas region), phase one is scheduled for completion by November 2013.

Cemex’s APO cement plant in the Visayas will supply the required materials via its jetty port, considered the most modern facility of its type in the country to date. The Millennium Road Project’s first package comprises the rehabilitatio

Cemex is supplying nearly 60,000m³ of ready-mix concrete for the first stage construction of what is expected to be the largest urban complex in the Chinese city of Qingdao, eastern Shandong province. The centre is expected to offer a mix of commercial, office, housing and hotel space, among other facilities.

Swedish cement company Cementa is collaborating with Linnaeus University (Linnéuniversitetet) in Småland in a research project to use algae to reduce the CO2 emissions from cement production.

This is one of several methods that Cementa is exploring to reduce its CO2 emissions and to reach is target of zero CO2 emissions by 2030. The research is based on injecting algae from the Baltic Sea in the waste heat from the cement furnaces, where they will absorb the carbon dioxide that is produced. The algae wil