Articles on the cement industry from Global Cement

Melón Cementos is the oldest cement producer in South America, having been in continuous production at its La Calera site since 1908. The company spent time as part of Blue Circle and then Lafarge, but has been part of the Peruvian conglomerate BRECA Group since 2009. Today it operates three sites and will shortly open a fourth. Iván Marinado, Melón’s CEO for Cement and Aggregates, recently took time out of his busy schedule to talk to Global Cement about the company’s Puerto Montt grinding plant.

LafargeHolcim in the US (LafargeHolcim) and CO₂ capture technology firm Svante are developing a full-scale CO₂ capture and storage solution at the Holcim Portland plant in Florence, Colorado, US. Global Cement found out more about the project from LafargeHolcim’s Derick Dreyer and Svante’s Claude Letourneau, plus how the parties are preparing for the future carbon economy...

Global Cement speaks with Ismail Doğan, Cement Production Manager at Nuh Çimento, about this remarkable plant’s history, process and sustainability initiatives, plus how it fits into the busy Turkish and Mediterranean cement sector...

Terrance Barkan, Founder and Executive Director of The Graphene Council, highlights the benefits of using graphene in cement and concrete mixes...

Global Cement explores three small cement sectors in mainland South East Asia...