Expect plenty more sustainability stories everywhere over the next few weeks as the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) started this week in Belém, Brazil. The GCCA will be present ...

Australia: The Cement Industry Federation has appointed Denise Sparks as its CEO with effect from 17 November 2025. She has held senior roles in the Australian and Queensland governments. The CIF says ...

That cement prices will rise due to decarbonisation policies is not in itself news. This debate is really about how much and who pays. T he WCA's latest analysis asserts that the cement sector will ...

US: The American Cement Association (ACA) has elected Monica Manolas as the chair of its board of directors. Manolas is the Region President at Ash Grove East. She is the first woman in the ACA ...

Netherlands: N+P Group has appointed Stijn Jennissen as CEO. He has worked for N+P Group since 2009 when he started as a trainee. He became Chief Commercial Officer in 2017 and joined the board of ...

Germany: Hosokawa Alpine has appointed Michael Kuhnen as its CEO. Kathrin Dörle has also been appointed as chief financial officer. They succeed Antonio Fernández and Jürgen Wilde respectively. Both ...

India: Adani Cement and Finland-based Coolbrook have announced an agreement to implement the world’s first commercial deployment of Coolbrook’s RotoDynamic heater (RDH) at Adani’s Boyareddypalli ...

According to the association, the country’s cement production peaked at 61.8Mt in 1997 before plunging to 44.6Mt during the 1998 financial crisis. Although production recovered to 56.71Mt by 2017, ...

Tajikistan: The country produced 3.7Mt of cement between January and September 2025, up by 512,000t or 16% year-on-year, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan. The ...

Egypt: Titan Egypt, a subsidiary of Greece-based Titan Group, plans to invest US$63.5m over the next two years to expand production capacity and increase the use of alternative fuels to reduce costs, ...

Germany: Gebr. Pfeiffer will supply an MVR vertical roller mill to Thomas Zement’s Karsdorf plant in Saxony-Anhalt, replacing the existing Horomill to reduce CO₂ emissions.

Italy: Cementir Holding’s cement volumes rose by 2% and aggregates by 5%, while ready-mix concrete remained stable at -0.3% in the first nine months of 2025, compared to the same period in 2024.