Articles on the cement industry from Global Cement

SCM Trends 2025

Blast furnaces will remain part of the global SCM picture for a considerable time to come. Source: Shutterstock.

Charlie Zeynel, advisor to ZAG Group, outlines the landscape for SCM trading in 2025.

Leaders Series: Titan Group

Marcel Constantin Cobuz, CEO of TITAN Group.

Global Cement hears the perspectives of Marcel Constantin Cobuz, CEO of TITAN Group.

Financing CCUS Projects

|Heidelberg Materials’ carbon capture cement plant and CO₂ terminal, Brevik, Norway.

How low-carbon cement projects can be delivered using Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfDs).

Ian Riley at the WCA

The cement sector must reimagine itself as part of the net-zero transition. Source: Shutterstock.

Ian Riley left his post as CEO of the World Cement Association (WCA) at the end of January 2025, after more than five years in the role. Here he discusses how the WCA and global cement sector have changed over this period.

Cement Demand Forecast 2050

Ian Riley was appointed CEO of the World Cement Association in September 2019.

The cement industry faces unprecedented changes over the next 25 years as it decarbonises. However, many of the factors that will have a large impact by 2050 are still at an early stage, while the timing of their impact is uncertain. This article looks at what their impacts might be and challenges the assumptions behind some of the more commonly cited long-term forecasts.