Dear readers,
the first issue of 2025 of ZKG Cement Lime Gypsum lies ahead of you. And the new year is still relatively new to us. Always a good opportunity to look back on the past year and what lies ahead.
Competition between the leading industrial nations continues to intensify. At the same time, new technologies such as artificial intelligence are opening up opportunities for immediate leaps in...
On the occasion of the federal election on 23 February, Philip Nuyken, Managing Director of Politics at the German Lime Association, urges the future government to act quickly: “Strengthening the industry also means averting damage to it."
The return side of the conveyor may be the most deceptively hazardous part of a conveyor system. With long gaps between rollers and carrying no cargo, there is an extensive list of injuries inflicted on workers from the return side of conveyors in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) database.
For the 10th time, the International Drymix Mortar Conference idmmcX takes place at Kleine Meistersingerhalle, Nuremberg/Germany (on Monday, 24th March 2025).
Cembureau’s nine industry associations have commissioned SGS Intron to prepare a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) report exploring the environmental impacts of treating End-of-Life (EoL) composites by co-processing in a cement facility.
A consortium comprised of Cemex and Linde has been selected to receive € 157 million in funding from the EU Innovation Fund for a pioneering CO2 capture project at Cemex’s Rüdersdorf Cement Plant in Germany.
Austrian Starlinger & Co Gesellschaft m.b.H. takes over the woven packaging division from German machinery producer Windmöller & Hölscher (W&H), based in Lengerich/Germany, as well as its Viennese subsidiary company “W&H Machinery GmbH” which specialises in woven packaging.
The extensive decarbonisation work being carried out by the global cement and concrete industry to cut CO₂ emissions is set out in a newly published progress report, launched at CO29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
The building materials industry has been in a sustained economic downturn since the beginning of 2022. The industry’s production has slumped by around a quarter compared to 2021.
