Peru: Cement shipments reached 1.04Mt in February 2026, up by 11% year-on-year and by 9% over the previous 12 months. Cement production was 0.95Mt, up by 9% year-on-year and by 6% over the previous 12 months, while clinker production was 0.82Mt, up by 10% year-on-year and by 5% over the previous 12 months.

Cement exports reached 9630t in February 2026, down by 13% year-on-year but up by 2% over the previous 12 months. Clinker exports reached 37,003t, up by 1% year-on-year and by 39% over the previous 12 months. Cement imports reached 69,699t, up by 31% year-on-year and by 55% over the previous 12 months, entering through the Port of Chancay from Vietnam (87%) and the Tacna land terminal from Chile (13%). Clinker imports reached 35636t, down by 1% year-on-year and up by 14% over the previous 12 months, entering solely through the Port of Callao from Ecuador.

US: Utilities provider Georgia Power will extract and transport 2Mt of coal ash currently stored at its former Arkwright coal-fired power plant in Macon, Georgia. The ash is destined for Georgia Power’s nearby Branch power plant in Milledgeville. From there, the company plans to supply it for use in cement and concrete production. Tex Energy Report News has reported that shipments will commence in 2027 and continue until 2033. Georgia Power expects sales revenues to offset costs.

UK: Wirral Borough Council leader Paula Basnett will write to UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband to urge the government to scrap the Peak Cluster CO₂ pipeline project, according to local press. The €69m scheme will transport CO₂ from cement and lime plants in Derbyshire and Staffordshire for storage in depleted gas wells in the Irish Sea. Local residents and campaign groups have opposed the project, with nearly 17,000 people signing a petition.

Campaign for the Protection of Rural England representative Jackie Copley said “When the government are weighing the balance between the benefits and the harm of projects like this, make sure those landscape harms are fully weighed in the balance. Because at the moment it feels like development is almost automatic, as if it does not matter what’s happening to the landscape.”

Peak Cluster chair David Parkin said “We acknowledge a 200km pipeline is a very significant infrastructure project and will have a level of construction disruption. The main process we are going to do is called trenched construction so essentially, we dig a large trench in a field, we weld up the pipe, drop it in, put the soil back and then the farmer can re-use the field as it was before.”

India: Cement producer Adani Cement has entered a strategic partnership with 15,000-member residential construction body the National Real Estate Development Council. The partners will coordinate efforts to advance sustainable construction practices and the adoption of new technologies, as well as upskilling and knowledge exchange. FCC News has reported that joint initiatives will include builder certification programmes.