Global Cement News

Colombia: London Stock Exchange Group subsidiary FTSE Russell has listed Grupo Argos subsidiary Cementos Argos among the top companies on its FTSE4Good environmental, social and governance sustainability index. The index evaluates company performance across 150 indicators including water efficiency, health and safety, labour standards, human rights, fiscal transparency and anti-corruption.

Legal and Sustainability Vice President María Isabel Echeverri said, “We are very excited about being included in the FTSE4Good because it recognises the importance of sustainability management and value creation for us, as well as the efforts we have been making to communicate our goals in a transparent and timely manner in environmental, social commitments and government aspects.”

Mexico: Cemex has supplied over 100,000m³ of its Vertua concrete product range to projects in its home country. Deliveries reached 113,000m³ to 1700 projects by the end of July 2021. Outstanding orders exceed 500 projects. The company launched the low and net-zero CO₂ concrete products in early 2021.

US: Martin Engineering has launched new online conveyor training content. The supplier says that the content integrates with client customer learning management systems (LMS). It is intended to enable users to independently assign, monitor and certify progress of participants across all of a producer’s locations.

Training manager Jerad Heitzler said, “With this new effort in place, Martin has taken another step forward in global conveyor training.” He added “We’ve emerged as an LMS content provider to deliver greater flexibility and control over employee learning, helping customers attain the highest levels of efficiency and safety.”

Russia: Denmark-based FLSmidth has won a contract with Sebryakovcement for the supply of a grinding mill for its Sebrakovsky cement plant in Volgograd Oblast. The mill will have a capacity of 175t/hr. The supplier plans to commission the mill in 2023.

Russia: Kaluga Cement Plant has put its unfinished cement plant in Kaluga Oblast up for auction. AK & M News has reported that the auctioneer has valued the site at US$374,000, with a reserve of just US$243,000. The reason for the sale is the bankruptcy of Kaluga Cement Plant.