Denmark: Aalborg Portland signed a contract on 9 June 2026 with the country's energy agency for €2.2bn in subsidies for its carbon capture and storage (CCS) project from 2030.

"We can ​now take the decisive step toward realising a project that is not only ​significant in a Danish context, but is also among the largest industrial CO₂ capture projects in Europe," Aalborg Portland CEO Soren Holm Christensen said in a statement. Aalborg Portland will receive €117/t of CO₂ captured, corresponding to up to €147m/yr for 15 years, with the subsidies covering the capture, transport and storage of up to 1.25Mt/yr of CO₂. The company added that it expects the project to account for more than half of the Danish CCS subsidy pool's overall ​target of capturing 2.3Mt/yr of CO₂ ​from 2029.

Air ⁠Liquide will provide the capture technology for the project, while Harbour Energy will provide the transport infrastructure and storage, according to the company.

France: Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies has announced the launch of H-CLAY, a new technology that enables the cold processing of clay into a co-product for use in the formulation of 0%-clinker cements. This technology is based on a process for cold-processing clay, without resorting to traditional calcination or flash-calcination processes and their associated CO₂ emissions. H-CLAY enables the recovery of various types of clay to be integrated as a co-product in the formulation of low-carbon cements, similar to slag in some of the company’s 0%-clinker cements.

Julien Blanchard and David Hoffmann, co-founders of Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies, said "The launch of H-CLAY marks a new milestone in Hoffmann Green's technological history. Having demonstrated that it is possible to mass produce and market high-performance clinker-free cements, we are now breaking new ground with the cold processing of clay, without calcination or flash-setting. This innovation perfectly illustrates our ambition: to develop disruptive technologies able to significantly reduce cement's carbon footprint, while meeting the technical requirements of the construction market.”

Iraq: Government-owned Iraq Cement State Company (ICSC) has invited companies to bid for three projects to develop cement plants in the country. The first and second projects will develop two new integrated plants, each with a capacity of 6000t/day. The first facility is due to be developed in the Kufa quarries area in Al-Najaf Al-Ashraf Governorate, and the second is due to be developed in the Mosul district of Iraq’s Nineveh Governorate. The third project is focused on expanding the existing Hadbaa cement plant, which is also located in the Mosul district.

The scope of the project includes establishing a new dry-process, gas-fuelled line capable of producing 3200t/day of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and sulphate-resistant cement (SRC). The new line needs to be capable of producing cement suitable for dam filling, according to ICSC. ICSC has invited ‘Iraqi and Arab investors’ to participate in the projects, according to Yahoo, as well as companies specialised in developing cement plants. The deadline for submitting bids for all three projects is 23 June 2026.

Argentina: Total cement despatches in Argentina fell by 2% year-on-year to 810,000t in May 2026, and accumulated despatches in the first five months of 2026 fell by 3% year-on-year to 3.87Mt. Domestic despatches fell by 1% year-on-year to 807,000t in May 2026, while exports fell to 3083t from 4809t in May 2025. Total cement consumption fell by 1% year-on-year to 807,000t in May 2026, with accumulated consumption in the first five months of 2026 down by 3% year-on-year to 3.85Mt. Imports fell to 179t in May 2026 from 62t in May 2025.