The company executed initial trials of this technology at the Alicante Cement Plant in Spain in July 2019 and quickly confirmed its potential as a lever to significantly reduce CO 2 emissions. The technology was installed in 2020 in all cement plants in Europe. In 2021, CEMEX will roll this out to substantially all its global operations.
Research, Benchmarks and Plant Projects are Ongoing As The Industry Tackles Sustainability Challenges. By Mark S. Kuhar. Whether it is Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage; Climate and Energy …
Sarens has been on site at the cement plant since July 2019 and will continue to be involved with the project through March of 2020. In all, seven personnel are working with the LG-1550 SDBW, AC-1200, and AC-200 to perform simple lifts of the plant structures and cement silo, handling weights of 82 tonnes, 40 tonnes, and 35 tonnes, as well as ...
The plan includes investing around $15 million to fire up an idled kiln at its CPN cement plant in northwest Mexico, yielding more powder for terminals north of the border by the second quarter of 2021. "Many cement customers in California, Arizona and Nevada have been impacted by supply constraints this past year," said Joel Galassini ...
US: Colombia-based Cementos Argos subsidiary Argos USA's Newberry, Florida cement plant produced 140,000t of cement in June 2021. The plant shipped 129,000t of cement. The company says that the production figure beats its previous production record of 128,000t in June 2019 by 9%.
Mexico: Cemex plans to start using hydrogen as part of its fuel mix at its cement plants around the world in 2021. The estimated cost of the roll-out is US$40m. The company says it completed the deployment of its hydrogen technology across all of its cement plants in Europe in 2020 following trials at the Alicante Cement Plant in Spain …
Mexico/US: Cemex has invested US$15m in recommissioning a 1Mt/yr cement kiln at its CPN cement plant in Hermosilla, Sonora. The decision is intended to …
In 2011, Mexico produced 35.4 million tons of cement, 3% more than a year earlier. The first cement-making plant was built in Mexico in 1906, a few years after cement was first officially approved for use in the construction sector. Cement demand grew only slowly prior to a spate of public infrastructure projects in the mid 1940s.
In Mexico, global building materials company CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. (CEMEX) has announced that it will implement hydrogen injection technology at four of its cement plants in Mexico as part of its Future in Action program to achieve sustainable excellence and become a net-zero carbon company.
The optimization includes a kiln's recommissioning at a cement plant in northwest Mexico. This announcement leverages CEMEX's unique supply chain synergies in North America to alleviate cement shortages and project delays in California, Arizona, and Nevada. ... customers avoid or mitigate any potential delays to their projects in …
Mexico: Cemex says that it has supplied its low-CO 2 Vertua concrete to 786 construction works in Mexico. The El Sol de San Luis newspaper has reported that …
Mexico: Cement production in Mexico grew by 24% year-on-year to 56Mt in 2020. This was its highest figure in the last five years, according to BNamericas. Data from INEGI, Mexico's national institute of statistics, shows that production in January 2021 grew by 14.5% year-on-year to 4.2Mt.
Mexico/US: GCC plans to spend US$450 - 500m on upgrade projects to its cement business over the next three years to 2024. It is considering building a new 1.1Mt/yr clinker production line at an unnamed existing plant but the board of directors has yet to make a final decision.
The data on cement consumption for 2021 in Spain is out this week and it looks promising. ... candidate plants could be in the US or Mexico, as well as Spain. ... Another side of the drive to cut energy and carbon costs can also be seen in a couple of photovoltaic solar projects supplying cement plants that were announced in 2021 for …
CEMEX has successfully introduced ground-breaking hydrogen technology as part of its fuel mix in all of its cement plants in Europe. With an estimated $40 million investment program, it is also moving quickly to extend the technology to the rest of its operations around the world, including Mexico and the United States.
Mexico: Holcim subsidiary Holcim Mexico has inaugurated its new 650,000t/yr cement grinding plant at Umán in Yucatán. The cost of the project was US$40m. The cost of the project was US$40m. The …
CEMEX is investing approximately U.S. $15 million to recommission a kiln with a production capacity of about 1 million tons of cement annually at the CPN cement …
CEMEX is investing approximately U.S. $15 million to recommission a kiln with a production capacity of about 1 million tons of cement annually at the CPN cement plant in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
The price of grey cement in Mexico increased on average 14.5 per cent per 50kg bag and 20 per cent per tonne of bulk cement in January 2022 when compared with December 2021, according to industry sources and material distributors, reports El Norte.
CEMEX announced today that it will implement hydrogen injection technology at four of its cement plants in Mexico as part of its Future in Action program to achieve sustainable excellence and become …
Cemex appears to be a leader in using hydrogen in this way. The Mexico-based company started injecting hydrogen in 2019 and retrofitted all of its European cement plants with the technology to do so in 2020. It then said it wanted to roll this out to the rest of its operations. The project in the Dominican Republic is an example of this.
Keep up-to-date with the cement news updates and current cement projects. ... The McInnis cement plant, located in Port-Daniel–Gascons, and part of St. Marys Cement (Canada) (Ciment St. Marys), continues to make its mark on the industry. ... achieved a 10% reduction in carbon emissions from transporting aggregates and …
Mexico: Cementos Moctezuma recorded a 20.8% increase in revenues to US$1.1bn in 2023, according to its 2023 Integrated Annual Report. During the same period, the company invested more than US$37.2m in active projects, producing more than 7Mt of cement. The company also reported an earnings before interest, depreciation and …
CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. ("CEMEX") (NYSE: CX) announced today that, following its successful restart of one kiln at its CPN cement plant located in northwest Mexico in 2021, it is now reactivating the second CPN kiln.
Cemex will inject hydrogen into its cement kilns as a catalyst at four of its cement plants in Mexico. The company said it "may optimize" the combustion process and decrease its use of fossil fuels.
Ethiopia: Halala, the director of Ethiopian Chemical and Construction Inputs Industry Development, says that the Abay Cement plant is 60% complete and due to start operation in 2021. The 2.5Mt …
Thanks to the implementation of safety and vaccination measures both in cement production plants and in infrastructure works, the main indicators of the cement and construction industry registered a significant increase compared to 2020 and in some cases reaching the same levels of 2019. ... (-13.5%) in 2020 and 3,214,000 (+21.2%) in …
OneStone also analysed the cement plant contracts from 2017 to the first half of 2021 in detail, including greenfield projects, new lines, plant upgrades and separate grinding plants. In total in the period under review it identified 312 projects in the RoW.
Mexico: Cemex says that it will invest US$925m in 2021 – 2023 in production capacity expansions and upgrades, as well as in other projects to improve financial margins. Chief executive officer Fernando González said at its Cemex Day 2021 business update that the group is planning a 10Mt/yr cement capacity expansion …
The Afghan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum's Jabal Seraj cement project aims to build a new cement plant in the country and reduce Afghanistan's dependence on imports from Iran and Pakistan. The cement plant would supply a critical input to construction and other industries, while generating needed jobs and tax revenues.
2 MEXICO PROJECTs INTERNATIONAL CEMENT REVIEW JULY 2021 via rail and road, feed material storage capacity, a customised mill feed system, product storage capacity, a dispatch system allowing for bulk, bagged or palletised transport, plant automation and all electric motors. Fast-track project Although the project includes some
Mexico: Cemex says that it has supplied its low-CO 2 Vertua concrete to 786 construction works in Mexico. The El Sol de San Luis newspaper has reported that the volume so far delivered totals 33,000m 3. In late May 2021, 398 further projects have placed orders for future deliveries.
Where is Mexico's cement industry headed? Bnamericas Published: Monday, May 17, 2021 . Building Materials Industrial Materials Supplier Cement plant. ... 31,000+ projects in Latin America.
Project CO2Ment Rolls on in Spite of 2020's Challenges. January 2021. Lafarge Canada Inc. (Lafarge), Svante Inc. (Svante), and Total S.A. (Total) have reached a major milestone of Project CO2MENT, a first of its kind partnership to capture industrial levels of CO2 emissions from a cement plant.
Modern milling in Mexico Encouraged by healthy construction demand and promising growth potential, two regional cement manufacturers have decided to invest in cement grinding facilities in Yucatán, Mexico. Both Cementos Fortaleza and Holcim México …
Mexico/US: GCC plans to invest US$500m over the next three years to the end of 2024 on increasing its production capacity and strengthening its logistics and distribution network in North America. New projects in development include the expansion of a cement plant, debottlenecking at the integrated Samalayuca plant in Mexico, the …
