Joe Harder of OneStone Consulting looks at how the cement industry is expanding its cement and clinker capacities, despite the Covid-19 pandemic and overcapacities in many countries, drawing on the findings of OneStone’s new multi-client market report Cement Projects Focus 2025.
Global Cement speaks with Marmara Cement’s Yiğit Gündoğdu about Turkey’s newest cement plant.
Economies may be reopening as the Covid-19 pandemic recedes, but new issues have arisen for the cement sector in 2021, including weakened supply chains and rising inflation. Work towards net-zero targets gives the impression of accelerating, but will it ever be enough for the green lobby? Global trends continue, with China facing a real estate crisis, India booming, the US finally passing that infrastructure bill and much else...
Peter Hartvigsen, CEO and Founder of construction robotics start-up Kobots, speaks about his company’s plans to empower construction sector workers, including those who install cement-based boards.
Global attention will soon focus on industrial decarbonisation during the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), which will take place in November 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Some cement producers have moved ahead of the curve, with a number of longstanding CO2 capture and storage projects and a burst of new ones announced in September 2021. Here, Global Cement rounds up those projects currently in progress.
