Thomas Bergmans  has worked at INFORM GmbH since 2001 and has been Senior Vice President for its Logistics Division since 2011. The company develops software solutions for the efficient, cost-effective and sustainable distribution of a variety of products, including cement and ready-mix concrete.

The optimisation of distribution logistics offers significant potential for cement producers to lower their CO2 emissions in the race to net-zero.

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Thomas Petithuguenin, FLSmidth’s Head of Research and Partnerships for Cement.

What does the cement industry of 2050 look like? Thomas Petithuguenin, Head of Research and Partnerships for Cement at FLSmidth, talked to Global Cement about his vision for the future, the thing most likely to stop us from getting there, and the need to unleash the industry’s creativity.

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Plant expansions and grinding plants could point the way ahead for the global cement sector. Source: Shutterstock.

Joe Harder of OneStone Consulting looks at how the cement industry is expanding its cement and clinker capacities, despite the Covid-19 pandemic and overcapacities in many countries, drawing on the findings of OneStone’s new multi-client market report Cement Projects Focus 2025.

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Aerial view of the Suez Canal. Its blockage in March 2021 was just one of a number of interruptions to cement sector supply chains  in 2021. Image by Pabkov from Shutterstock.

Economies may be reopening as the Covid-19 pandemic recedes, but new issues have arisen for the cement sector in 2021, including weakened supply chains and rising inflation. Work towards net-zero targets gives the impression of accelerating, but will it ever be enough for the green lobby? Global trends continue, with China facing a real estate crisis, India booming, the US finally passing that infrastructure bill and much else...

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