11 July 2017
Morocco: LafargeHolcim says that its 0.2Mt/yr Laâyoune cement grinding plant is complete. The cement producer is set to start production later in July 2017 it said in a director’s report, according to Medias 24. The company is also about to start building a 1.7Mt/yr cement plant in the Souss-Massa region. Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions has been contracted to build this project.
Germany: Bernd Scheifele, the chairman of HeidelbergCement, has admitted that his company needs to take action to improve its overall sustainability management following its acquisition of Italcementi. Following the purchase both its specific gross CO2 emissions per tonne of cementitious material and its alternative fuels mix fell. However, specific emissions of NOx and SOx fell, although specific dust emissions rose in the reporting period. The cement producer also improved accident frequency despite increasing its workforce to 15,781 in 2016 from 9560 in 2015.