Articles on the cement industry from Global Cement

Big changes at Cookstown

The Cookstown Cement plant, going it alone since January 2022.

Global Cement visited the new management team at Cookstown Cement in Northern Ireland, to hear about its plans for the future of the plant.

In discussion: CCS with the WCA

View of the LafargeHolcim Mannersdorf plant in Austria, which will see full-scale CCS by 2030 as part of the Carbon2Product Austria (C2PAT) project.

In April 2022 the World Cement Association (WCA) announced that it was helping cement producers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to develop their decarbonisation journeys. Here, Global Cement speaks with Ian Riley, CEO of the WCA, about the state of carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) around the world.

EU ETS: Enter Phase IV - Part 3: CBAM

Biskria Cement, Algeria, a producer that may be affected by the introduction of the EU ETS Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). Source: Monousos Petrakakis, entrant to the Global Cement Photography Competition.

In the third of CemBR’s series of articles on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS),Terry Pavlopoulos looks at the developments in its Phase IV, with a focus on the introduction of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), drawing on findings from CemBR’s report: EU ETS & Cement –Enter the Phase IV.

Burglengenfeld: a leading European cement plant

Overview of the Burglengenfeld plant. Source: HeidelbergCement.

We speak to Bernhard Reindl, Plant Manager at HeidelbergCement’s Burglengenfeld plant in Germany, one of the most modern facilities in Europe...

What’s causing the sudden rise of EPDs?

The National Cement Company plant in Lebec, California, completed its EPD on 1 September 2021. It produces Portland limestone cement (PLC) to further reduce CO2 emissions.

Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are emerging as the centrepiece of a worldwide disruption in how buildings and roads are designed, and materials specified. In this article we explore the story of the rise of EPDs, the main drivers behind this, and how EPDs are changing and accelerating cement and concrete innovation.