Sweden: Heidelberg Materials Sweden has announced that it intends to focus its activities at the Skövde site ‘on the end product cement’ from 2027 onwards. The reason for this is reportedly a decline in cement sales, driven by continued weak construction demand in Sweden in the current economic conditions. Heidelberg Materials said that, as part of the ongoing optimisation of its European production network, it is aligning its cement portfolio towards low-carbon products, which require less clinker. Therefore, the company intends to concentrate most of its clinker production in Sweden at its larger cement plant in Slite, Gotland. Cement production in Skövde would primarily be based on clinker sourced from Slite, which supplies customers in south-western Sweden.
Heidelberg Materials is the only cement producer in Sweden. It says that around one quarter of the country’s total cement volume is produced at the company’s plant in Skövde, with the remaining three quarters supplied from Slite.
