European funding for low-emission cement development using blast furnace slag

Ecocem, a European leader in low-carbon cement technologies, recently received €4 million in funding from the European Union through the EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2024 program. The goal of the project is to develop an innovative technology that utilizes slag from electric arc furnaces, transforming it into a high-performance supplementary cementitious material. This initiative is part

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Slag: A Sustainable Solution Amidst Europe’s Cement Industry Challenges

The European cement industry, particularly in Poland, is grappling with significant challenges. A substantial influx of cement imports from non-EU countries, notably Ukraine, has intensified competition. These imports have surged by nearly 3,000% over five years, reaching over 650,000 tonnes in 2024, with projections exceeding 1 million tonnes in 2025 . This surge is attributed

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Titan buys Latekat aggregates quarry business in Greece

Titan Group has acquired the Latekat quarry business based in the Thessaly region. Latekat holds reserves of over 100Mt of aggregates. The company said that this latest transaction follows the purchase in 2024 of an aggregates quarry in Attica and the recent finalisation of a long-term commercial agreement in the Southern Peloponnese, securing additionally over

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Court blocks CRH Ukraine’s acquisition of Dyckerhoff Cement Ukraine

Ukraine: A court has overturned the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU)’s September 2024 decision to allow CRH Ukraine to acquire Buzzi subsidiary Dyckerhoff Cement Ukraine. Interfax-Ukraine News has reported that the court found that the AMCU made its decision based on insufficient ‘clarification and evidence’ of details on the situation in the Ukrainian ready-to-use mortar mixes

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Ukrainian producers prepare to scale cement output for reconstruction

Ukraine: Ukrainian cement and concrete producers are ready to expand capacity to meet reconstruction demand, according to a survey by Consumer and Business Research Ukraine (CBR), despite reduced funding and limited state budget. Cement production dropped to 5.4Mt in 2022 from 11Mt in 2021 but stabilised at 7.4Mt in 2023 and 7.97Mt in 2024. CBR

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