3 December 2024 Quarry Management Ian Riley, WCA CEO, has authored an article on the impact of decarbonization on the outlook for cement ..read more

London, 21 November 2024 - The World Cement Association (WCA) announced today that Siam Cement (Thung Song) Co., Ltd., a prominent producer and distributor of cement in Thailand, has joined WCA as its newest Corporate Member ..read more

Developed as a new US and Canadian standard,  CarbonStar® To Help Decarbonize Concrete and Slow Climate Change WASHINGTON, D.C., October 30, 2024 - The Smart Surfaces Coalition, CSA Group (formerly the Canadian Standards Association), the World Cement Association, and the American Public Health Association announce the introduction of CarbonStar®, a new binational standard to quantify the carbon impact of concrete. CarbonStar [CSA/ANSI R118:2024, CarbonStar®: Concrete Carbon Intensity Quantification and Verification] provides a simple, rigorous way to compare the embodied carbo ..read more

23 October 2024 Heidelberg Materials, one of the world's largest integrated manufacturers of building materials and solutions, has recently commissioned the first industrial concrete recycling plant in Poland, near Katowice, to recycle 100% of demolition concrete. It is equipped with Fives' breakthrough FCB Rhodax® technology, which releases all the components of demolition concrete in the highest quality ..read more

4 October 2024 S&P Global Commodity Insights Ian Riley, WCA CEO, has been interviewed by S&P Global Commodity Insights on the UK government's pledge of nearly GBP22 billion for carbon capture and storage ..read more

9 October 2024 International Cement Review WCA Member Carbon Re have authored an article on the application of AI to the kiln process and the results in improving kiln stability, lowering fuel costs and specific heat consumption, for the latest issue of International Cement Review.  ..read more

9 October 2024 World Cement Gang Yu, the head of Industrial Intelligence at Huaxin Cement and WCA Member, has authored an article for World Cement, explaining how advanced digital technology has helped to decarbonise production processes across the cement industry ..read more

13 September 2024 Aggregates Business WCA CEO, Ian Riley has commented on China’s recent announcement to expand its national carbon trading market to include the cement industry, among other hard-to-abate sectors, by the end of this year ..read more

11 September 2024 Gulf News WCA has been quoted in an article by Gulf News on the 'urgent quest to decarbonise the cement industry ..read more

6 August 2024 Energy Monitor Ian Riley, WCA CEO, has been interviewed by Energy Monitor on the cement industry’s urgent but thorny transition to net-zero emissions ..read more