Oman: Jindal Steel Oman and Oman Cement have signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support the sustainable utilisation of approximately 1Mt/yr of steel slag in the latter’s clinker manufacturing process. The MoU was signed by Jiang Tao, Acting CEO, Oman Cement (part of Huaxin Cement) and Harssha Shetty, CEO of Jindal Steel Oman.

Under the partnership, steel slag generated as a byproduct of steel manufacturing will be used as an alternative raw material in clinker production. The companies say that the initiative will help conserve natural resources, reduce reliance on virgin raw materials and improve the productive use of industrial by-products.

The collaboration brings together Oman’s steel and cement industries to promote industrial symbiosis and a circular economy, while supporting efforts towards lower-carbon cement production. The initiative also contributes to Oman’s Net Zero 2050 ambition by creating a circular link between two key industrial sectors and enabling the productive use of resources.

Latvia: Sweden-based Cemvision has been selected by the European Union's (EU) Innovation Fund to receive a grant of up to €27.5m to build a 0.5Mt/yr low-carbon cement plant. It will be the company’s first commercial scale unit. Cemvision will now prepare the grant agreement with the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). The agreement is expected to be signed by March 2027.

Claes Kollberg, the CEO of Cemvision, said "This grant brings us a decisive step closer to building our first commercial plant, and to showing that Europe can make the cement it needs from its own industrial residues, with a fraction of the emissions."

Cemvision uses industrial by-products, including steel slag, and an electrified production process to produce cement with lower greenhouse gas emissions than ordinary Portland cement.

US: The American Cement Association (ACA) has partnered with the American Coal Ash Association, the Natural Pozzolan Association and the Slag Cement Association to develop consolidated product category rules (PCR) for cementitious materials. The new PCR, called Smart Environmental Product Declaration Part B (Standard 1000-017), merges three PCRs for cement, slag cement and supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), including coal ash and natural pozzolans. ACA's EPD consultant has initiated a survey of cement producers in order to collect data for new industry EPDs.

ACA director of environmental measurement and metrics Jamie Farny described the move as a ‘logical next step’ to reduce duplicative measures regulating cement and concrete producers and users’ environmental impact reduction.

Oman: Jindal Steel Oman and Oman Cement have signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support the sustainable utilisation of approximately 1Mt/yr of steel slag in the latter’s clinker manufacturing process. The MoU was signed by Jiang Tao, Acting CEO, Oman Cement (part of Huaxin Cement) and Harssha Shetty, CEO of Jindal Steel Oman.

Under the partnership, steel slag generated as a byproduct of steel manufacturing will be used as an alternative raw material in clinker production. The companies say that the initiative will help conserve natural resources, reduce reliance on virgin raw materials and improve the productive use of industrial by-products.

The collaboration brings together Oman’s steel and cement industries to promote industrial symbiosis and a circular economy, while supporting efforts towards lower-carbon cement production. The initiative also contributes to Oman’s Net Zero 2050 ambition by creating a circular link between two key industrial sectors and enabling the productive use of resources.