Global CCS efforts accelerate 18 December 2020
This week Norcem (HeidelbergCement) received the Norwegian Parliament s carbon capture and storage (CCS) investment approval for a full-scale CCS facility at the company s Brevik cement plant in Norway. This is expected to be the first carbon capture facility for cement production and is scheduled for start-up in 2024. It is just one of many attempts to find suitable solutions for carbon capture at cement plants.
HeidelbergCement heads up the Low Emissions Intensity Lime and Cement (LEILAC 1) pilot project to capture CO
2 at the Lixhe cement plant in Belgium. Cemex and Tarmac are also among the partners in this project which aims to separate CO