US: Finland-based Elematic has won a contract to provide precast concrete element plant design and construction services to Texas-based property developer S.H.A.R.E. Community Development Corp (SCDC). SCDC specialises in turnkey multi-family residential developments. The companies have a five-year plan to expand their partnership across the US.

Elematic supplies fully-integrated plants, production lines, standalone machines and services in over 100 countries. It holds a Concrete Construction Innovation Award and a Finnish Quality Award.

Cyprus: The Pancypriot Ready-Mix Concrete Producers and Distributors Association (PSKPÉS) dissolved on 2 December 2024, as workers began to return to work following a two-month strike. The Cyprus Mail newspaper has reported that 480 (86%) of 560 ready-mix concrete workers have now signed deals with employers. 25 companies have signed, out of a total 35 affected. This follows the failure of the PSKPÉS to produce a collective agreement with unions.

Union representative Stelios Efstratiou said "Next steps wherever employers have failed to sign are still to be determined."

India: Market research company Exactitude Consultancy has forecast that the ready-mix concrete market in India will increase at a composite annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9% between 2024 and 2030. It noted that this will result in a total market value of US$1.54tn. This is more than double its size one decade previously in 2020, of US$725bn.

Saudi Arabia: Canada-based CarbonCure Technologies has partnered with concrete producer Abdin and utilities provider Gulf Cryo to produce new reduced-CO2 concretes for The Line mixed development in NEOM New City. Under the partnership, Abdin will install CarbonCure Technology’s CO2 injection systems at its Gayal concrete plant.

Robert Niven, CEO of CarbonCure Technologies, said "By helping lay The Line's foundations with a more sustainable concrete, CarbonCure is proudly demonstrating the enormous potential to significantly reduce embodied carbon of future construction across Saudi Arabia, in the Middle East and worldwide."

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