Articles on the cement industry from Global Cement

Sublime: Low-CO2 cement via electrolysis

Blocks made using Sublime’s room-temperature cement-making process.

Global Cement speaks with Leah Ellis, co-founder of Sublime Systems, which is scaling up the room-temperature production of a low-CO₂ ‘drop in’ alternative to conventionally-made cement.

Getting the Right

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...

Syngas from Sewage Sludge

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?

X as a Service

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...