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Global Cement recently caught up with Cembureau’s Chief Executive Koen Coppenholle to discuss the association’s 5C Approach to mitigating CO2 emissions and wider trends in cement sector sustainability...

Carmeuse is a lime products manufacturer that was founded in Belgium in 1860. Initially operating in Belgium, where it brought together a number of independent lime quarries, Carmeuse started to expand in the 1980s. At first this included France, the Netherlands and Italy, before expansion to the US and Canada. During the 1990s, the group continued to grow into Turkey and West Africa, followed by Central Europe in the 2000s and the Middle East and Asia in the 2010s. Still family-owned, Carmeuse is worth around Euro1bn and delivers ~10Mt/yr of lime products to its customers, from 90 lime plants and 50 quarries around the world. Here, Global Cement speaks with Danielle Knott and Bernard Maiter from TECforLime, Carmeuse’s new lime engineering company...

Global Cement recently spoke with Charlie Zeynel, of supplementary cementitious material (SCM) trading firm ZAG International, ahead of the Global Slag Conference in Aachen, Germany, to discuss current and future trends in granulated blast furnace slag (GBFS), fly ash and other SCMs.

In 2015, the idea was born by the industrial start-up Cem’In’Eu to create a new offering for cement materials that was both better adapted to the needs of local actors and closer to them. A modular cement grinding unit with smaller production capacities was intended to be built in strategic locations that offered good access by road, river and rail. For this purpose, reliable and experienced contract partners had to be found for the realisation of this ambitious project. The grinding unit for the first of seven identical regional grinding plants has now been realised by Cem’In’Eu in partnership with partners that include Intercem Engineering, which was to engineer, deliver and commission the plant’s grinding plant module...