Cemex’s CEO Fernando González joined a panel of other business representatives at the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly on 18 September 2023. The United Nations Global Compact, the UN’s 9500 member-strong stakeholder platform for sustainable business, hosted the panel. González and fellow panellists discussed issues including sustainable finance, global fairness and the effects
The Arab Union of Cement and Building Materials (AUCBM) has moved the location of its 26th Arab International Cement & Building Materials Conference and Exhibition (AICCE26) to Cairo in Egypt. The event will now take place on 15 – 17 January 2023. The event had previously been due to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Cement Australia has commemorated the 100th anniversary of the start of operations at its Railton cement plant in Tasmania with a centenary dinner. Production manager Garry Bissett said “When it opened up in 1923, they built the small kiln, and it was only capable of cement production of 25,000t/yr; now we’re producing 1.4Mt/yr.” He added