US/Europe: Spain-based Cemex Ventures and nine other venture capital partners have named 13 finalists for their Construction Startup Competition 2026. Eight will pitch in Las Vegas, US, on 9 – 11 November 2026 and a further five in Helsinki, Finland, on 17 November 2026.

Finalists include Germany-based Bton Holding, which has developed the Hybrid Suspension Mixing two-stage processing technology for low-cement concrete production, and Canada-based Universal Matter, which has developed graphene dispersions to increase concrete strength.

Mozambique: Cimentos de Moçambique has started operating a new clinker production line at its Dondo plant in Sofala province. The upgrade project to the former grinding plant started in mid-2025, according to the O Jornal Notícias newspaper. Project work was conducted by China Railway No.20 Bureau (Mozambique). It included installing a 5MW waster heat recovery (WHR) unit. The unit’s cement grinding capacity has risen to 1.3Mt/yr from 0.75Mt/yr previously. The plant is owned by China-based Huaxin Cement.

Australia: Green360 Technologies recorded sales of US$2.53m in the three months to the end of September 2026, the first quarter of its 2027 financial year, up by 9% quarter-on-quarter. The producer said that its sales rose in part due to customer pricing adjustments. It reported net operating cash outflow of US$82,900, down by 89% quarter-on-quarter.

During the quarter, Green360 Technologies won a 12-month contract to supply 4800t of its Metacon X kaolin clay-based supplementary cementitious material (SCM) to Holcim Australia. It deployed 3500m³ of the SCM in on-going infrastructure projects in Melbourne, Victoria. The company also established an Industry Advisory Board of cement and concrete industry specialists to support uptake and approval procedures.

Latvia: Sweden-based Cemvision has been selected by the European Union's (EU) Innovation Fund to receive a grant of up to €27.5m to build a 0.5Mt/yr low-carbon cement plant. It will be the company’s first commercial scale unit. Cemvision will now prepare the grant agreement with the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). The agreement is expected to be signed by March 2027.

Claes Kollberg, the CEO of Cemvision, said "This grant brings us a decisive step closer to building our first commercial plant, and to showing that Europe can make the cement it needs from its own industrial residues, with a fraction of the emissions."

Cemvision uses industrial by-products, including steel slag, and an electrified production process to produce cement with lower greenhouse gas emissions than ordinary Portland cement.