Claude Lorea is the Cement Innovation and Environment, Social & Governance Director at the Global Cement & Concrete Association (GCCA).

Claude Lorea, Global Cement & Concrete Association (GCCA), looks at the latest data from the association’s Getting the Numbers Right (GNR) database of cement industry sustainability statistics, a key tool to hit net-zero CO2 emissions in the global cement sector...

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Figure 1: Sülze Kopf SynGas' industrial-scale pilot syngas reactor in Koblenz, Germany.|Figure 1: Sülze Kopf SynGas' industrial-scale pilot syngas reactor in Koblenz, Germany.

The use of sewage sludge as an alternative fuel in cement kilns will be banned in Switzerland from 2026 and in Germany from 2029 due to upcoming phosphorous recovery legislation. With these countries acting as bellwethers for European waste handling trends, has the time come for the widespread gasification of sewage sludge?

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Renewable-based microgrids, incorporating battery storage, could become an important pillar in the Energy as a Service sector. Source: Shutterstock.

With non-core tasks absorbing increasing amounts time for cement producers, Xavier d’Hubert looks at the trend towards ‘X’ as a service for the cement sector...

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Wind Turbines In Grassy Field With Sunlight. Source: Shutterstock.

The world is now at a point where solar and wind power are considerably cheaper than the fossil fuels used in many cement plants. However, renewables are intermittent and difficult to harness for industrial use. Here's how Rondo Heat Batteries can bridge the gap between intermittent renewable power generation and continuous industrial heat.

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