28 December 2022

Algeria: The National Centre for Cleaner Production Technologies (CNTPP) has signed a cooperation agreement with Lafarge Algeria. The arrangement is intended to provide government assistance towards producing cement more sustainably at the manufacturer’s plants, according to Le Quotidien d'Oran newspaper. The CNTPP is an organisation setup by the Ministry of Environment to support industrial and commercial companies.

US: Lehigh Hanson is preparing to start cutting jobs at the Glens Falls cement plant in New York from April 2023. The majority of the employees at the site will be laid off in April 2023 with some staff to be retained until later until 2023, according to the Times Union newspaper. It was previously reported in November 2022 that the subsidiary of Germany-based Heidelberg Materials was planning to close the plant in a phased manner in 2023. Production from the Glens Falls site will be covered in the future by the company’s new Mitchell plant in Indiana.