Australia: MCi Carbon has completed low-carbon cement trials with cement producer Boral. The material was produced at MCi Carbon’s Myrtle demonstration plant in Newcastle, New South Wales. The plant was officially opened in June 2026 and has been used by Boral in concrete field trials at its Maldon cement plant. The project investigated new supplementary cementitious materials for potential use in lower-carbon concrete for infrastructure applications. The trial incorporated a low-carbon binder called PozzLock, a synthetic pozzolan. Each tonne of MCI’s cementitious material can reportedly avoid up to 0.5t of CO₂.

US: Sewell Brother Ventures has applied to build a new ready-mix concrete batching plant at a site outside Harlem in Georgia’s Columbia County. Local press has reported that the plans entail rezoning of the site. The company intends to produce concrete for supply to local non-residential projects. The development will also include a recycling centre, with a total investment cost of US$2m.

US: SRM Concrete has acquired North Carolina-based Troy Ready Mix. The company operates one precast and one ready-mix concrete plant.

The acquisition brings SRM Concrete's total locations in North Carolina to 20. The group employs 8500 people and describes itself as the US’ largest ready-mix concrete producer.

UK: Heidelberg Materials subsidiary Marley has launched Edgemere 2.0, a concrete roof tile produced using Heidelberg Materials’ EvoZero reduced-CO₂ cement. UK-produced EvoZero cement attains to its CO₂ reduction through the transfer of Environmental Attribute Certificates (EACs) from cement produced at the group’s Brevik cement plant in Norway. An installed carbon capture system at the plant prevents 50% of the plant’s CO₂ emissions from entering the atmosphere.

Heidelberg Materials UK is in the process of building a 95% carbon capture installation at the Padeswood cement plant in Flintshire, Wales.