The December 2025 issue of Global Cement Magazine offers up our annual look at the Top 100 cement producers and dominant cement producing nations, plus our take on the biggest news stories of the year. There’s also coverage of several technologies at the forefront of our industry, including Aumund’s recently-launched electric Linear Clay Calciner, ways to optimise cement blends with separate ultra-fine grinding and a pioneering solar plant project in Yemen. There’s also a look at ‘Industry 5.0,’ which seeks to blend the ‘relentless’ analytical power of AI with human insight and imagination, plus a Eurocentric news summary of the past year and a look at secondary conveyor scrapers with Martin Engineering.
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Consultant for Martin Engineering R. Todd Swinderman discusses design calculations for the location of secondary cleaners, critical for an effi cient plant.
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Eng. Waheeb Al-Azab, CEO of Arabian Yemen Cement Company, reports on his company’s pioneering renewable energy project.
Authors from VDZ look at how to optimise clinker-effi cient cements using a combination of ultra-fine and coarseground granulated blast furnace slag (GBFS) fractions.
Traditionally, the cement business in Europe consists of a compact industry, serving a fairly saturated domestic market. 2025 brought a shake-up, as producers invested heavily in their operations and newly-arrived Chinese players made inroads into the industry, all against a backdrop of historically high costs.
More than 700 attendees visited the 28th Arab-International Cement Conference & Exhibition in Dubai, UAE, on 11 - 13 November 2025. The event was run under the auspices of the Arab Union of Cement & Building Materials (AUCBM), with Global Cement once again among the attendees.
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