Slovenia: Alpacem, the only cement producer in Slovenia, is planning to invest €30m to cut emissions at its plant in Anhovo. The investment includes the installation of regenerative thermal oxidation and selective catalytic reduction systems. These are required by the 2024 changes to the Environmental Protection Act, which brought stricter emission limits for waste co-incineration plants. The plant comes under this category due to its use of refuse-derived fuel (RDF).

While a final building permit has already been obtained, an environmental permit is still pending. Alpacem says that the investment will make the Anhovo plant one of the ‘most environmentally efficient’ cement plants in Europe. The plant's production capacity, permitted quantities of clinker production and permitted quantities of RDF use will not change.

Azerbaijan: The State Statistics Committee recorded cement production of 1.85Mt in the first half of 2026, down by 4% year-on-year. Meanwhile, clinker production rose by 3%, to 1.91Mt. Trend News Agency has reported that cement inventories stood at 206,000t and clinker inventories at 391,000t on 1 July 2026.

India: A court reserved orders on a petition filed by Bharathi Cement on 10 August 2026, in which it is seeking police protection for its Kadapa cement plant and limestone quarry in YSR Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh. The company alleges inaction on the part of the police over obstruction of the operations, near Nallalingayapalle.

The producer alleges that a group of terminated contract employees, in collusion with some others, have blocked access to the Kadapa plant and disrupted limestone transport. The company contended that it is incurring losses of US$400,000/day, while police have ‘turned a blind eye,’ despite a complaint being lodged.

The Andhra Pradesh government responded, saying that Bharathi Cement had voluntarily closed one of two access gates to the plant but that movements had continued in and out of the site. It added that police had provided security at the site and ensured that no ‘untoward incidents’ occurred.

US: California Attorney General Robert Bonta has filed a US$2.8m lawsuit against what he called CalPortland’s ‘negligence,’ claiming that its Redding cement plant in California started the Wonder Fire to the north of the city in 2023. The California Department for Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said that CalPortland called for assistance on 24 July 2023 after a blaze broke out in vegetation on the company's property near its private railway, where five bulk storage rail cars had been moving. An employee was unable to suppress the fire and called 911, according to the complaint.
The lawsuit states that Cal Fire's investigator found some brake shoes on the 1976 locomotive were ‘significantly worn,’ allowing metal components of the brake shoes to make contact with the locomotive's metal wheel. The lawsuit claims that this metal-on-metal contact emitted molten metal and sparks capable of igniting dry vegetation along CalPortland's tracks.

The Wonder Fire was reported on 24 July 2023 near Wonderland Boulevard and Fawndale Road north of Redding and Mountain Gate in Shasta County. The brush and timber fire burned 65 hectares before reaching 100% containment on 28 July 2023. No one was injured and no structures were damaged in the fire that prompted temporary evacuations of the Bridge Bay Marina and other nearby areas, according to Cal Fire.

CalPortland has reportedly not responded to an email request for comment.