Article from ‘Materials World’, Volume 33, Number 3, March 2025. Pages 26-30 England’s National Highways is travelling concertedly along the route plotted by its net-zero roadmap. Nick Warburton navigates how low-carbon asphalt materials have been developed and tested in a drive to decarbonise the road network. In 2022, England’s National Highways announced it had become […]
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Fast-setting Solution?
Article from ‘Materials World’, Volume 33, Number 4, pp.36-39 The cement manufacturing process is well known for being energy intensive and emits approximately 0.8kg of CO, for every kilogramme of traditional Portland cement(PC) clinker produced.The combination of high emissions, coupled with the scale of production (4Bt globally annually) contributes to roughly 8% of total anthropogenic […]
Lost in the Sand?
Article from: ‘Materials World’, Volume 31, Number 12 and Volume 32, Number 1. December-January 2025. Pages 41-44 Is time running out to deal with the quicksand of diminishing sand supply, and how do we mitigate the environmental and social impacts of extraction? Michael Ward finds out more. Sand – like water – is at long […]
Clay it Again!
Article from the journal ‘Mineral Products Today’ published by the Mineral Product Association (PMA). Summer 2024, issue 27, pp. 16-17 Using cementitious industrial by-products as a supplement for Portland cement is a well-established way to make efficient use of resources and reduce net carbon emissions. And new research led by the MPA has revealed another […]
Recycled Aggregates Volumes Hit Record High
Article from the journal ‘Mineral product today’, published by MPA. Summer 24, Issue 27, p.3. The amount of construction aggregates from recycled and secondary sources in Britain has reached an all-time high as producers invest in more advanced ways to turn ‘waste’ into valuable materials. That’s one of the key findings of a new MPA […]
Decarbonising the Cement Industry
Interview to Luke Olly, Decarbonisation Manager at Holcim. Part of an article entitled within the article entitled: ‘Manufacturing progress’, published in ‘Materials World’, June 2025, pp.39-40,What decarbonisation projects have you undertaken in recent years? We launched our net-zero strategy in 2023 with a focus on five key areas – renewable energy, alternative materials, low-carbon fuels, […]