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 […]

Holcim’s shareholders have approved all proposals at the group’s annual general meeting in Zug, Switzerland. A key proposal was the planned spin-off of the producer’s North American business as US-based Amrize. Holcim will now make a special distribution of one Amrize share for every Holcim share. Amrize shares are due to list on the SIX

CRH recorded total revenues of US$6.8bn in the first quarter of 2025, up by 3% year-on-year, and adjusted earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of US$495m, up by 11%. However, it reported a net loss of US$98m, compared to a net income of US$114m in the first quarter of 2024. The company said

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

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

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

CBMI has completed installation of a new rotary kiln at Eqiom’s Lumbres plant for the ‘K6 Project’. The plant is now reportedly carbon-neutral and is equipped with an oxyfuel kiln to reduce CO₂ emissions. The supplier said via social media that its team ‘delivered precise execution despite tight space and complex challenges’. Eqiom announced back

 77 decarbonisation projects (including 14 for the cement sector) have signed grant agreements under the Innovation Fund 2023 Call (IF23), following the announcement of results in October 2024. The cement projects, spanning nine European countries, will begin operations between 2025 and 2029. The funding, sourced from the EU Emissions Trading System, provides grants ranging from

One unusual thing about coverage of cement in the media is the way that discussions often centre precisely on its absence – that is, on alternatives to cement. These alternatives boast unique chemistries and performance characteristics, but are all produced without Portland cement clinker. They are generally called ‘alternative cements,’ perhaps because ‘cement-free cement’ does not have

Novel concretes developer Greencraft has made a patent application for a new method of CO₂ mineralisation using a microporous material containing mineral oxides, like slag. Global Warming Focus News has reported that the method also works for natural hyaloclastite, bottom ash, fly ash, volcanic ash and lava. Greencraft said that its method marks an ‘improvement’