The May 2025 issue of Global Cement Magazine, which will be distributed at the IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, and the Global CemCCUS Conference in Vienna, Austria, carries plant reports from the National Cement Ragland plant - one of the most efficient in the US - and the Reworld Birmingham alternative fuels production plant. Ed Sullivan - now of The Sullivan Report - offers his latest forecast for the US cement sector in 2025. There’s also a review of the cement sectors of central Europe and a plant report from Holcim Mannersdorf, the destination of the Global CemCCUS Conference’s field trip.

Elsewhere in this issue we carry features on CCUS projects and the use of plasma as a heat source for cement production, as well as calcined clays, optimisation, process monitoring, fans, plant engineering and cement analysis. Our Leaders Series hears from Marcel Constantin Cobuz, CEO of Titan Group, who offers his unique take on where the global cement sector finds itself in 2025.