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The Department of Trade and Industry of the Philippines, together with international partners, has launched the first Cement and Concrete Industry Decarbonization Roadmap to 2050. The document provides for reducing emissions in the sector while maintaining cement supplies for infrastructure, housing and other construction projects.

The local government of Anbar Province announced the start of implementation of the Ramadi cement plant project. The facility will become the largest and first investment project for a cement plant wholly owned by the private sector, with a production capacity of one million tonnes per year.

SaltX Technology, Holcim and Paebbl are implementing a demonstration project for electrified cement production and the utilization of captured CO₂ across the industrial value chain. The project has received funding through the CET Partnership, an EU programme supporting energy and climate technologies.

Japan’s Taiheiyo Cement Corporation has begun supplying cement from Indonesia to the United States through SBI, a company in which it holds an equity stake. The first shipment was sent to Taiheiyo Cement’s U.S. subsidiary on June 1, 2026.

Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies has announced the launch of H-CLAY®, a new technology for the cold processing of clay for use in the production of 0 % clinker cement.

Cement sales in Brazil totaled 5.7 million tonnes in May 2026, down 1.0 % from the same month a year earlier, according to the National Cement Industry Union (SNIC).

Holcim has launched the cement sector’s first industrial-scale test platform for CO₂ capture technologies in France. The new facility, CaptureLab, located in Martres-Tolosane, is designed to test and validate advanced solutions for reducing CO₂ emissions both for the company itself and for third-party partners.