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The French company Vicat has received a second grant for the implementation of the VAIA (Vicat Advanced Industrial Alliance) carbon capture and storage project at the cement plant in Montalieu-Versier, the largest in France.

At the Höver cement plant of Holcim in Germany a membrane CCS technology is under construction.

UltraTech announced the commissioning of a second grinding unit (GU) at its Aligarh plant in Uttar Predesh in India.

Danish cement manufacturer Aalborg Portland has officially submitted a bid for the development of carbon capture and storage Technologies (CCS) by the Danish Energy Agency.

BUA Cement has signed a contract for the construction of a new cement line with a capacity of 3.0 million tons of cement per year in Sokoto State in Northwest Nigeria.

The Egyptian Government has held the 37th meeting of the Ministerial Group on Industrial Development. During the meeting, the group discussed the initiative to issue three new licenses for cement plants, each with a single production line, alongside expansion projects for existing cement factories.

The Pakistani company Cherat Cement Co. Limited has approved the installation of a 25 MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) along with an additional 5.4 MW solar power plant at the company’s factory site in Nowshera, Pakistan.