UK/India: Gigaton has secured contracts with JK Cement and Adani Cement, specifically AI-powered process optimisation and control at JK Cement’s Mangrol plant in Rajasthan and at Adani Cement’s Marwar Mundwa facility. Coinciding with the announcement of the UK-India trade deal on 15 July 2026, it targets savings across the company’s facilities of US$100m and 4Mt of CO₂ emissions over five years. The software has been running at the Mangrol plant for nine months and is expected to be deployed at the Marwar Mundwa facility soon, with the agreement having been signed earlier in July 2026.

Spain: Cemex España has received €200m in funding under the PERTE Industrial Decarbonisation Program (Line 1), earmarked for the development of SOMZERO, its carbon capture project at the Alcanar plant in Tarragona. The news was first reported by Diari de Tarragona on 29 May 2026, and the company’s press release now reveals more details. The project will reportedly allow the plant to achieve carbon neutrality and produce cement with zero CO₂ emissions. SOMZERO aims to capture more than 0.5Mt/yr of CO₂. It was announced previously that the total investment will amount to €450m.

India: Dalmia Bharat laid the foundation stone for its second cement plant in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh. CEO Puneet Dalmia and senior government officials were in attendance. The integrated plant received an investment of US$321m and is part of an expansion announced in 2025. It will be commissioned by the third quarter of the 2028 financial year and is expected to become the company’s largest integrated plant in southern India, with a clinker capacity of 6.1Mt/yr and a cement capacity of 9.6Mt/yr.

Armenia: Armenia’s State Revenue Committee has reportedly uncovered ‘large-scale’ tax violations in the construction materials sector, alleging millions of dollars in losses to the state budget, according to Panorama news. Investigators said that they have received intelligence suggesting that cement and concrete producers were underreporting sales, issuing false invoices and using fake transactions to reduce tax liabilities. Official secretly tracked trucks leaving a cement plant in Ararat province and compared delivery routes with company tax filings. Authorities reported that on one day, 101 trucks left the plant, but 35 shipments worth about US$117,891 were not recorded in tax documents. This omission allegedly deprived the state of US$19,648 in value-added tax. Further analysis raised suspicions that the company had also documented US$3.2m in diesel purchases using ‘potentially fictitious’ invoices, reducing both VAT and profit tax obligations.

Investigators also examined a concrete producer operating in Yerevan and Kotayk province. Officials said that the company failed to declare US$199,214 in sales, causing a US$62,766 shortfall in taxes. Preliminary investigations are underway, and the committee said that it would continue to pursue tax evasion schemes ‘aggressively,’ using surveillance and data analysis to protect state revenues.