Articles on the cement industry from Global Cement

GBFS Focus 2030: Looking beyond Europe

Basic oxygen furnace at POSCO, South Korea. Source: Worldsteel.

Joe Harder challenges some misconceptions about the future of granulated blast furnace slag (GBFS) trends, highlighting some of the findings of his company’s recently released market report GBFS Focus 2030.

MENA: Steps to sustainability

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The World Cement Association (WCA), stategy and industrial consultant A3&Co® and Arabian Cement discuss the sustainability picture in the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on the Egyptian market

Green ammonia: The ‘crude’ of the hydrogen economy

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Hydrogen, viewed as a key element in the decarbonisation of the global cement sector, is costly and difficult to transport. Verano Energy looks at how ammonia can help.

‘Secret’ cement sector changes: The Way Forward?

Figure 1: A sunset view of Seven Rings Cement Plant, Bangladesh, one of the countries most at peril from rising sea levels due to global warming. Source: Gautam Chatterjee, Seven Circle Bangladesh.

Cement and concrete have built the modern world, but there are signs that the ‘golden age’ of Ordinary Portland Cement is either coming to an end - or is already past. The ‘cement’ industry is now evolving into a different beast entirely, either while seeking the headlines, or avoiding them.