Denmark: Switzerland-based Sika has acquired mortars producer Marlon Tormortel for an undisclosed sum. Alliance News has reported that Sika’s Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Manager Christoph Ganz said "With our combined businesses and strengthened production capacities, we will have an excellent platform to accelerate growth in Denmark and the Nordic region." He added that the acquisition will help to complete Sika’s product offering.
Japan: US-based direct air capture (DAC) systems developer Aircapture has won a contract to install a DAC system at Aizawa Concrete Corporation’s Fukushima concrete research and development production hub in Namie Town, Fukushima Prefecture. The system will inject captured CO₂ into wastewater from operations at the hub to produce calcium carbonate as a raw material for concrete production. The project will be Aircapture's first in Japan.
Aircapture founder and CEO Matt Atwood said "This partnership demonstrates how DAC can seamlessly integrate into existing manufacturing processes, while creating permanent carbon sequestration. We're proving that atmospheric CO₂ has become a valuable industrial feedstock."
As a signatory of the Japanese concrete sector’s A-Net Zero Initiative, Aizawa Concrete Corporation is committed to achieving net-zero CO₂ emissions by 2035.
India: Twenty-eight ready-mix concrete plants are reportedly still operating in the Vasai East neighbourhood of Mumbai, Maharashtra, despite having received closure notices from the state’s Pollution Control Board (MPCB). The Times of India News has reported that authorities disconnected the plants from the grid, however they continue to run on diesel generators. The closure notices followed an observed decline in air quality in the local area.
46 legal ready-mix concrete plants currently operate in Vasai East.
Pakistan: Ready-mix concrete producer Safe Mix Concrete recorded sales of US$5.78m in the 2025 financial year, up by 31% year-on-year. The producer’s cost of sales rose by 39% to US$4.91m. As a result, it grew its profit after tax by 10%, to US$361,000.
