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country’ s infrastructure is over 100 years old in places and it needs rebuilding. Data centres and new energy facilities to support AI are adding further demand, and housing remains a pressure point everywhere, including Europe. We’ re already exporting three million tons a year to third-party customers in the US, and our quality and service have been proven in that market. We’ re now considering opening our own terminals to sell directly, rather than solely through third parties.”
Improving efficiencies
When it comes to reducing the cement industry’ s carbon footprint, Medcem has two ways of approaching it – first, enhancing the use of alternative fuels, switching to low-carbon electricity, improving energy efficiency, optimizing logistics and improving quality through R & D to reduce clinker content. The second covers measures that are more difficult to apply under current market conditions, which Mehmet elaborates on.“ Carbon capture and utilisation systems, for example, are extremely capital- and
We’ ll build out logistics cont further through shipping and c growing our ready-mix operatio every country that we operate
operationally-intensive, and hydrogenpowered or fully electrified plants remain very expensive. We follow these technologies closely, through consultants, 200