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Alpacem to invest €50m in Wietersdorf plant modernisation
13 August 2024Austria: Alpacem will invest €50m to modernise its Wietersdorf plant, including a new cement grinding plant, reportedly capable of saving up to 21,000t/yr of CO₂ and reducing electricity consumption, according to the Kronen Zeitung. The plant is scheduled for completion and commissioning in 2027. In the future, a new cement silo plant will also be built in the Görtschitztal valley, directly connected to the railroad.
Florian Salzer, technical director at Alpacem Zement Austria said "With this new project, we are investing in a sustainable future and laying the foundations for energy-efficient and environmentally conscious cement grinding."
Managing director Lutz Weber added "Alpacem has a clear goal: CO₂-neutral production by 2035. To achieve this ambitious goal, we need a package of measures and a concrete path."
Alpacem opens new headquarters
06 October 2023Austria: Alpacem inaugurated its new headquarters in Wietersdorf, Carinthia, on 6 October 2023. The project demonstrated the first construction application of the group’s reduced-CO2 CEM-II/C Portland composite cement.
Managing director Lutz Weber said “With the most modern technologies for decarbonisation and our extensive building materials expertise, we have succeeded in reducing the ecological footprint of our Alpacem headquarters to a minimum.”
Alpacem Zement Austria appoints Christine Gröll as head of material flow management and process control
23 August 2023Austria: Christine Gröll has taken over the role of head of material flow management and process control at Alpacem Zement Austria. The producer created the new role for Gröll, who will lead a dedicated team of eight people to achieve net zero CO2 cement production at the company’s Wietersdorf cement plant by 2035. The team will focus on alternative raw materials and alternative fuel (AF) substitution.
Gröll is an Ulm University-trained chemist with over four years’ experience working within Alpacem Zement Austria. Prior to that, she worked as a research associate for Schwenk Zement in Germany, on the development of its Celitement hydraulic binder.
Alpacem Zement Austria’s technical director Florian Salzer said "It fills us with particular pride that we were able to fill the new department with talented employees from our own company. This clearly underlines the potential that exists in our team and emphasises the extensive expertise that we have built up. We are also pleased that the department management is in the competent hands of Christine Gröll, who brings an incomparable mix of research drive and practical experience.”
W&P Cementi to buy Fanna cement plant from Buzzi
09 August 2023Italy: Alpacem subsidiary W&P Cementi has concluded a deal to buy Buzzi’s Fanna cement plant in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The plant has a clinker capacity of 660,000t/yr. As a part of the deal, Buzzi will obtain a 25% stake in Alpacem’s Austrian subsidiary Alpacem Zement Austria. Alpacem said that the deal expands the companies’ existing strategic partnership into the Austrian market. The parties expect to conclude the deal, pending the approval of competition authorities, in 2024.
Alpacem chief executive officers Bernhard Auer and Lutz Weber said “We are pleased to be expanding the strategic partnership. There are many future challenges in the cement sector that we can solve better together than we can individually.”
W&P Zement becomes Alpacem Zement Austria
08 August 2023Austria: Alpacem's Austrian subsidiary W&P Zement has announced its rebranding to Alpacem Zement Austria. Alpacem said that the rebrand in Austria will be the first step of a roll-out of the Alpacem brand across its local subsidiaries.
Alpacem has subsidiaries in Austria, Italy and Slovenia.
Salonit Anhovo to become Alpacem Cement Slovenia
19 July 2023Slovenia: Salonit Anhovo has announced a planned name change to Alpacem Cement Slovenia. STAkrog News has reported that the inclusion of the word ‘Slovenia’ will require special government approval. The company said that Alpacem better reflects its ownership, while Cement reflects its core activity.
Salonit Anhovo is 75% owned by Austria-based Wietersdorfer Alpacem and 25% owned by Italy-based Buzzi.
Austria: Alpacem has held the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of its new headquarters at Wietersdorf, Carinthia. The company will invest Euro6m to establish the new headquarters on the site of its Wietersdorf cement plant. It will contain 50 office work stations, with meeting rooms and socialising zones.
In 2021, Alpacem says that it supplied 2Mt of cement and 350,000m2 of ready-mix concrete to projects in the Alpine/Adriatic region.
Austria: W&P Zement has appointed Jerneja Potocnik, Florian Salzer and Peter Ramskogler as its finance, technology and sales directors respectively. The trio started their roles in April 2021. The appointments are intended to allow managing directors Lutz Weber and Bernhard Auer to focus on the development and growth of the parent company Alpacem and its other subsidiaries with respect to sustainability and digitisation. The decision is also planned to allow W&P Zement to work on modernising its integrated plants at Wietersdorf and Peggau.
Alpacem appoints heads of human resources and finance
07 August 2019Austria: Alpacem has appointed Birgit Lautner as its head of human resources and Jerneja Potocnik as the head of its financial control. Lautner, aged 47 years, worked in various international finance and industrial companies in human resource roles before joining Alpacem. Potocnik, aged 41 years, will also act as finance director for Salonit Anhovo, the group’s Slovenian subsidiary. She has held various positions in the Wietersdorfer Group since 2016.
Alpacem buys terminal in Trieste
30 July 2019Italy: Austria’s Alpacem purchased a terminal and bagging plant at Trieste in Italy from Italcementi in April 2019 for an undisclosed sum. The unit will be run by the company’s Slovenian Salonit Anhovo subsidiary with support from its Italian subsidiary W&P Cementi. Cement processed at the terminal will be delivered from the Salonit Anhovo integrated plant in Slovenia for sale in Slovenia, Italy and Croatia.