UK: Tata Steel plans to install a new electric arc furnace (EAF) at its Port Talbot steel refinery in Wales. Modern Railways News has reported that the upgrade will generate an anticipated 3.5Mt/yr of additional rail freight. The furnace will produce 255,000t/yr of EAF carbon steel slag. Tata Steel reportedly expects to sell the slag for use in roadbuilding, mainly in South East England.
UK: Construction firm John Sisk & Son has successfully concluded its construction of part of the Wembley Park mixed development using concrete produced with Ecocem’s ACT alternative circular cement. The concrete met design specifications for all elements, while reducing embodied CO2 emissions by 70%. Construction Index News has reported that Capital Concrete and Creagh Concrete also participated in the project, which commanded €594,000 in Innovate UK funding.
UK: Heidelberg Materials UK has secured a new Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for its EvoBuild 30% reduced-CO₂ ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) supplementary cementitious material (SCM). Norway-based EPD-Norge supplied the EPD, which confirms the material’s production in line with the European standard EN 15804.
Heidelberg Materials UK said “The company has a safe and secure volume of GGBFS available for supply across the UK for many years to come.”
EU: The FEhS Building Materials Institute has lauded the European Commission’s Clean Industrial Deal’s focus on increasing slag demand, such as proposed reforms to public procurement. The institute has urged rapid implementation by lawmakers and called for regulatory updates on the uptake of granulated blast furnace slag 2.0 (GBFS 2.0) and other circular raw materials in building materials production.
