Colombia: Cemex will divest certain operations in Colombia through several transactions ‘with different parties’, for a combined purchase price of approximately US$555m. The producer signed an ...

Sweden: Heidelberg Materials has withdrawn its application to build a carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at its Slite cement plant after the Swedish Energy Agency rejected its request for ...

Italy: Cementir Holding recorded cement and clinker sales of 11.0Mt in 2025, up by 3% year-on-year, with growth in the Asia Pacific region, Egypt and Türkiye offsetting declines in the Nordic & Baltic ...

India: UltraTech Cement has appointed Jayant Dua as its managing director. He will start the role in April 2026. He succeeds KC Jhanwar in the role. Dua joined the cement business of Aditya Birla ...

UK: Breedon Group launched its ‘British Cement Advocacy’ campaign alongside publication of its 2025 results. CEO Rob Wood wrote to ministers in the Departments for Business and Trade and Energy ...

Cement company shares prices in India fell this week due to energy supply concerns in the wake of the US-Israeli-led war with Iran. The situation appears similar, so far at least, to the energy shock ...

Peru: Cement shipments reached 1.04Mt in February 2026, up by 11% year-on-year and by 9% over the previous 12 months. Cement production was 0.95Mt, up by 9% year-on-year and by 6% over the previous 12 ...

Germany: Scheuch has secured a contract to install an OxiCat catalytic flue gas cleaning system at Holcim Süddeutschland’s Dotternhausen cement plant in Baden-Württemberg. The air pollution control ...

US: Utilities provider Georgia Power will extract and transport 2Mt of coal ash currently stored at its former Arkwright coal-fired power plant in Macon, Georgia. The ash is destined for Georgia Power ...

UK: Wirral Borough Council leader Paula Basnett will write to UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband to urge the government to scrap the Peak Cluster CO₂ pipeline project, according to local press. The €69m ...

Türkiye: Limak Cement has produced and certified Türkiye’s first limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) at its Trakya plant, according to a social media post by the producer. It said that the cement ...

Saudi Arabia: Najran Cement awarded a US$13m contract to Sinoma International Engineering to build an electric grid connection project at its Sultana plant in Madinah province, under the Liquid Fuel ...