Articles on the cement industry from Global Cement

: Written by Simon Branch, CEO, Innovatium; 01 July 2022

PRISMA Liquid Air Battery at the Cauldon cement plant. Photo: Jo Branch, Innovatium.

Innovatium’s Simon Branch looks at how the company’s PRISMA Liquid Air Battery can increase the efficiency of compressed air systems in the cement sector, while reducing costs and CO₂ emissions.

: Written by Peter Edwards, Global Cement Magazine; 23 May 2022

The Cookstown Cement plant, going it alone since January 2022.

Global Cement visited the new management team at Cookstown Cement in Northern Ireland, to hear about its plans for the future of the plant.

: Written by David Perilli, Global Cement Magazine; 23 May 2022

View of the LafargeHolcim Mannersdorf plant in Austria, which will see full-scale CCS by 2030 as part of the Carbon2Product Austria (C2PAT) project.

In April 2022 the World Cement Association (WCA) announced that it was helping cement producers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to develop their decarbonisation journeys. Here, Global Cement speaks with Ian Riley, CEO of the WCA, about the state of carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) around the world.

: Written by Terry Pavlopoulos, CemBR; 23 May 2022

Biskria Cement, Algeria, a producer that may be affected by the introduction of the EU ETS Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). Source: Monousos Petrakakis, entrant to the Global Cement Photography Competition.

In the third of CemBR’s series of articles on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS),Terry Pavlopoulos looks at the developments in its Phase IV, with a focus on the introduction of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), drawing on findings from CemBR’s report: EU ETS & Cement –Enter the Phase IV.