Global Cement News

India: ThyssenKrupp Industries India has appointed Prashant Jamadar appointed as Senior General Manager – Marketing. He has worked for ThyssenKrupp Industries India since 2006 in a variety of marketing roles. Jamadar holds a qualification in mechanical engineering from the G M Choudhary Engineering Collage and a master’s of business administration (MBA) degree from the Indo-German Training Centre in Mumbai.

Austria: Australia-based FCT Combustion has appointed Átila Soares as its Sales Manager for Europe and Africa. He will be based at the company’s office in Vienna. Soares previously worked for Aumund Group in Brazil in a variety of roles since 2005. The latest position was as a Sales Manager based in São Paulo. He also holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial (FEI) in Brazil.

US: Sublime Systems has acquired a site in Holyoke, Massachusetts, to build its first commercial-scale cement plant. The planned unit is expected to be commissioned in 2026, create 70 jobs, and will eventually have a capacity of 30,000t/yr. The selected site previously housed paper mills and is powered by local hydroelectric resources. The project is also being supported by a state tax credit from the Economic Development Incentive Program and local Tax Increment Financing from the City of Holyoke to offset property taxes. The commercial-scale plant is being developed as a stepping-stone before building a larger 1Mt/yr plant in the future.

Sublime Systems chief executive officer and co-founder Leah Ellis said “The same qualities that made Holyoke a world-class industrial hub in the past perfectly position it to now be the home for clean tech manufacturing of the future.” She continued, “The Water Street site exemplifies that in its ample space, industrial zoning, access to renewable hydroelectricity, utilities and even rail.”

Sublime Systems is commercialising an electrolysis cement production process that will manufacture cement at ambient temperature from a variety of calcium sources. Its Sublime Cement product received an ASTM C1157 designation in September 2023. The company has raised over US$50m from a consortium of climate technology investors, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) funding and strategic investor Siam Cement Group.

India: Anjani Portland Cement has completed the amalgamation of Bhavya Cements into itself. Bhavya Cements operates the 1.4Mt/yr Bhavya cement plant in Andhra Pradesh.

Saudi Arabia: Al Jouf Cement Company has awarded a contract to Rabou’ Al Taybeh for the export and sale of its clinker. Local press has reported that the contract has a value of US$8m and a duration of six months, subject to renewal.