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Sweden/India: Cemvision has received a grant from the Swedish Energy Agency to conduct a joint feasibility study with Tata Steel to convert basic oxygen furnace (BOF) and electric arc furnace (EAF) slags into feedstock for near-zero-CO₂ cement. The 10-12-month study will assess the technical and economic viability of a scalable slag valorisation model, ahead of a planned demonstration facility at Tata Steel’s site.
Cemvision CEO Oscar Hållén said “Being able to, at scale, turn environmental liabilities into valuable resources is exactly the kind of climate innovation heavy industry needs. In partnership with Tata Steel, we hope to show how steel slag can become a cornerstone in near-zero CO₂ cement, while metals are recovered and returned to steel production.”
The project is part of the India-Sweden Industry Transition Partnership (ITP), announced during Cop30 in Belém, Brazil. Tata Steel also received a grant from India’s Department of Science and Technology, with additional partners including IIT ISM Dhanbad and JK Cement.
India: Toshali Cement has appointed Dhiren Nayak as its Vice President – Works.
Prior to this, Nayak worked as the plant head of an unspecified cement plant in Odisha in 2023, having earlier worked as a cement sector consultant. He notably held the position of Head of Operations at the Saudi Cement Company in Saudi Arabia from 2013 to 2019 and was a Technical Works Manager at Fujairah Cement Industries in the UAE from 2010. Earlier in his career he worked for FLSmidth, Lafarge Cement, Tata Steel and OCL India.
Toshali Cement operates an integrated plant at Ampavalli in Odisha and a grinding plant at Bayyavaram in Andhra Pradesh.
India: Shree Cement has appointed Neeraj Akhoury as its designated managing director. Hari Mohan Bangur has also been appointed as chair and Prashant Bangur as Vice Chair. All these personnel changes are subject to approval by the members of the company. In addition, Gopal Bangur has resigned as chair and will become Chairman Emeritus.
Akhoury holds nearly 30 years of professional experience in the cement and steel sectors. He began his career in 1993 at Tata Steel, working for both the cement and steel divisions. He joined Lafarge India in 1999 and worked as member of the Executive Committee responsible for corporate affairs followed by sales. In 2011, he moved to Nigeria as the head of Lafarge AshakaCem. Later, he was appointed as Strategy & Business Development Director for the Middle East & Africa at Lafarge’s headquarters in Paris. He became the head of LafargeHolcim Bangladesh in 2015 and then was appointed as the head of ACC in 2017 and Ambuja Cement in 2020.
Akhoury is a graduate in economics from Allahabad University and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Liverpool. He has also studied one-year General Management Program at XLRI Jamshedpur and is an alumunus of Harvard Business School.
