The June 2024 issue of Global Cement Magazine includes our annual look at the UK cement market, with Edwin Trout from the Cement Industry Suppliers’ Forum. There’s also a review of a number of varied markets in Eastern Europe: Belarus, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine. Much of this region is volatile, but opportunities are present for producers that are prepared to play the long game.

Technical content comes on the topics of ball mill optimisation, quarrying and stockpile monitoring. There’s also two articles on CO₂ capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), including a special feature on evoZero from Heidelberg Materials, the world’s first CO₂-neutral cement. In the global concrete section, we hear from Louis Structures, which has come up with a way to produce light-weight, low-CO₂ aggregates from municipal solid waste.

The July - August 2024 issue of Global Cement Magazine is hot on the topic of CO₂ capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) with articles on the future EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and CCUS project funding, as well as a full review of the highly-successful Global CemCCUS Conference, which took place in Oslo, Norway.

Elsewhere in this issue, there’s an intriguing look at how the ‘Furno Brick’ could disrupt current business practices by putting small scale, low-cost clinker production in the hands of contractors, a look at bucket elevator design, and a thorough report on the current status of the Iranian cement sector.

The September 2024 issue of Global Cement Magazine will be distributed at the FICEM Technical Congress in Cartagena, Colombia and at the Global CemFuels Conference in Dublin, Ireland.

The bumper issue is full of features on alternative fuels, as well as plasma technology, refractories, fan monitoring, logistics, plant control, biocides, concrete recycling, health and safety and more, plus a look ‘inside the mind’ of cement sector management.

There are cement plant reports from Ireland and Colombia, plus a report on the latest from the cement sectors of the Caribbean and Central America.

The October 2024 issue of Global Cement Magazine - to be distributed at TÜRKÇIMENTO’s 17th International Technical Seminar in Antalya, Türkiye - contains an exclusive interview with the association’s CEO Volkan Bozay, plus a wide range of technical contributions on silos, compressors, conveying, lime, health and safety, renewable energy and alternative fuels.

There’s also a look at the ConcreteZero initiative, CemVision’s Re-ment range of low-CO₂ binders and the benefits of on-shore CO₂ capture and storage for the cement sector.

In the November 2024 issue of Global Cement Magazine we are very pleased to speak with Dato’ Yeoh Soo Keng, the AFCM President, about the cement sector in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the countries covered by the AFCM event. There’s a review of the German cement sector and a look at the Carbon2Business project being undertaken by Holcim at its Lägerdorf plant. There’s also an in-depth cement plant report from Iraq in the Middle East & African cement section.

Technical topics in this issue include alternative fuels, ultra-fine slag grinding, plant audits, marine loading/unloading, health and safety compliance and a concrete admix that absorbs atmospheric CO2. Elsewhere, there’s an in-depth interview with the Association of Low-Carbon Cement & Concrete (ALCCC) and a Global Cement report on white cement markets.