The final manufacturing process for cement has numerous steps. Raw-meal is grounded into a fine powder and burned in the kiln. The blending is done in silos. The raw-meal is continuously circulated ...

Besides water, cement is used more than any other material on Earth. Its manufacture begins by combining limestone with ...

A new technique can produce cement using waste from demolished buildings, which researchers say could save billions of tonnes of carbon by 2050. “We have definitely proved that cement can be recycled ...

Cement production is the second-largest industrial contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, but its carbon footprint could be dramatically reduced with a new low-cost, scalable approach ...

The modern world is built on concrete, and cement is what makes it possible. You've probably heard these two terms used interchangeably, especially while watching DIY videos on YouTube. However, they ...

Norway’s Statoil saves hundreds of millions of euro in avoided carbon taxes by using CCS. Since 1996, the Sleipner gas field has stored about one million tonnes CO2 a year. A second project in the ...

Cement scientist Brent Constantz wants concrete to be the "hero" that cleans up dirty coal. "The reality is, coal is not going away," he says. "We need to meet the world’s power demands without ...

Cement is one of those materials you don’t think about until it breaks — until the bridge you drive across, the house you live in, or the sidewalk you walk on shows cracks. Yet it is everything ...