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Holcim announces its financial investment in Magment, to expand their existing collaboration in the breakthrough field of road-based electric charging solutions. Together the companies have jointly developed an innovative concrete formulation enabling wireless inductive charging technology.

INSEE Cement has extended production of its Portland Composite Cement to its Ruhunu Cement Plant, increasing production of the new SLS 1697 product to meet the growing demand of the local market. Portland Composite Cement (PCC) is the result of years of research, and is a superior blended cement produced exclusively at the Puttalam integrated cement manufacturing facility earlier, to address the high carbon footprint of OPC cements, while also producing compressive strength equal to or beyond that of OPC at all ages.

Recently, Argos, the cement company of Grupo Argos, launched an innovative and highly specialized product called Super UHPC. This ultra-high performance concrete is already being used to rehabilitate two bridges over one of the most important roads in the state of Florida in the United States.

Eco Material Technologies ("Eco Material" or the "Company"), the leading producer of sustainable cementitious materials, today celebrated the opening of the Kirkland Pozzolan Mine in Yavapai County, Arizona.

To support local manufacturing and infrastructure development in Liberia, IFC today announced a partnership with Fouta Cement Corporation (Fouta Cement), Liberia's second-largest cement supplier, to help it increase production and reduce Liberia's reliance on imported construction material.

Marking a big shift in helping to reduce CO2 emissions in construction across Western Canada, Lafarge announced today that their Richmond plant will manufacture only OneCem, the company’s lower carbon portland limestone cement for use in materials across BC and the Pacific Northwest.

Holcim is partnering with the German startup Magment to improve its magnetizable concrete technology for road surfaces enabling electric vehicles to recharge wirelessly while in motion.