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Austria: Haimo Primas has been appointed as the CEO of Holcim Austria. He succeeds Berthold Kren in the role.

Primas, aged 53 years, has worked for Holcim for over 20 years. He started working for Lafarge Zementwerke in the early 2000s and has worked for related companies, including Holcim CE Holding and Lafarge Slovenia. His responsibilities have included senior positions at cluster and national level in finance, business development, supply chain and human resources. Amongst other roles, he was the plant manager of the Retznei cement plant from 2022 to October 2024. Primas studied business administration at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz.

Austria: Holcim is set to significantly reduce its carbon footprint with the installation of a new clinker cooler system and a large-scale photovoltaic system at its Mannersdorf cement plant. The clinker cooler project is valued at approximately €10m, and aims to cut heat consumption and reduce CO₂ emissions by 18,000t/yr. Completion is expected in early 2025. The solar project will be fully operational by 2025, and will cover approximately 15% of the plant’s energy needs and reduce CO₂ emissions by an additional 12,700t/yr. 2.7MW of solar panels were erected at the site of the former chimney on the plant’s premises.

Plant manager Helmut Reiterer said "Sustainability requires decarbonisation, i.e. continuously reducing the CO₂ emissions from our production activities. We are placing an investment focus on energy-efficient production by modernising our machinery, but also on expanding green energy."

Austria: Lafarge Austria and Perlmooser Beton will operate under the new name Holcim Austria from May 2023. Both companies have been part of Holcim Group since 2015. The rebranding exercise follows the renaming of LafargeHolcim as Holcim that took place in mid-2021.

Lafarge Austria operates two cement plants, at Mannersdorf and Retznei respectively, with a total production capacity of 1.6Mt/yr. Its headquarters is in Vienna. The company employs around 250 people.