Sweden: SaltX Technology has signed a joint development agreement with Holcim to develop a fully electrified clinker production process, with the goal of building Europe’s first fully electric cement ...

For every 1,000 kilograms of cement the world produces, 600 kilograms of carbon dioxide are dumped into the atmosphere. If that doesn’t sound like a lot, consider that last year the world made about 4 ...

Making cement requires a lot of heat and releases large amounts of carbon dioxide. The heat helps transform limestone (calcium carbonate) into clinker, which is largely calcium oxide. This process, ...

On the edge of a nondescript industrial park in Lancaster, at the site of an abandoned driving range, glimpses of a 55-foot tower outfitted with black pipes and cameras and that sometimes glows with ...

Concrete is very versatile, inexpensive, literally hard, and can be cast into almost any shape. It consists, in principle, only of sand, gravel, water, and the binder cement. The latter is made by the ...

On the edge of a nondescript industrial park in Lancaster, at the site of an abandoned driving range, glimpses of a 55-foot tower outfitted with black pipes and cameras, and which sometimes glows with ...