Belgium: TotalEnergies and Holcim have commissioned a 31MW floating solar power plant in Obourg, located on a former chalk quarry site rehabilitated into a lake. The plant is expected to generate approximately 30GWh/yr of electricity, which will be self-consumed by Holcim’s facilities. TotalEnergies said that the installation is the largest floating solar power plant in Europe dedicated to industrial self-consumption. The project included more than 700m of horizontal directional drilling to connect the floating panels to the electrical substation.

Olivier Greiner, managing director of retail power & gas Belgium at TotalEnergies, said “We are delighted to inaugurate this floating solar power plant, which demonstrates TotalEnergies’ teams’ ability to innovate to meet the needs of our partner Holcim, whom we support along with other industrial customers in their efforts to decarbonise their operations.”

India: RCCPL, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birla Corporation, has commissioned a third production line at its Kundanganj unit, increasing grinding capacity by 1.40Mt/yr. Following the expansion, Birla Corporation’s consolidated production capacity has reached 21.4Mt/yr.

The company said that the Kundanganj expansion is expected to strengthen the company’s competitiveness in its core markets of central and eastern Uttar Pradesh, with clinker supplied from its integrated plants at Satna, Chanderia and Mukutban. The project cost is estimated at US$32m.

The expansion includes technology upgrades to increase fly ash utilisation for the production of Portland Pozzolana Cement, as well as improvements to infrastructure and logistics. A 5MW solar power plant is also being installed at the site and is expected to be commissioned in the second quarter of the next financial year, increasing the share of renewable energy at the plant from just over 30% to around 40%. Birla Corporation plans to further increase total production capacity to 27.6Mt/yr by the 2028-2029 financial year through additional expansions and new grinding units.

Vietnam: Sinoma (Nanjing) and MeyGroup have signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for an 8000t/day clinker production line in Vietnam, according to a post on Linkedin by Sinoma’s marketing director, Anton Zhou. The signing ceremony was attended by representatives of both companies and took place in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Azerbaijan: Clinker production reached 654,000t in the first two months of 2026, representing a 7% increase compared to the same period in 2025, according to the State Statistical Committee. As of 1 March 2026, the country held 354,000t of clinker in stock, which reportedly indicates sufficient supply for ongoing construction projects across the country. Despite this increase, clinker production in the full-year 2025 totalled 3.95Mt, down by 12% compared to 2024.