Cement in Europe's industrial transition

What is being built in European cement

34 projects on file — 4 running, 29 announced or funded, 1 paused — as of 2026-09-14

• Carbon2ProductAustriaPendingMannersdorf, AT — no public funding on fileby 2026-09-14
• CO2LLECTPendingRuedersdorf, DE — no public funding on fileby 2026-09-14
• Go4ECOPlanetPendingKujawy, PL — no public funding on fileby 2026-09-14
• ANRAVPendingDevnya, BG — €190 m committedby 2026-09-09
• Hoever carbon capturePendingHoever, DE — no public funding on file2026-08-21

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What does cement depend on

5 technologies, 2 materials, 5 constraints — as of 2026-06-26

• Post-combustion carbon capturetechnologyearly-commercial — Brevik, the first industrial-scale capture plant in the cement industry, opened on 18 June 2025 and is capturing at full scale. One operating plant is early-commercial, not commercial.2025-06-18
• Oxyfuel carbon capturetechnologydemonstration — Two full-scale oxyfuel kilns are under construction in Europe — GO4ZERO at Obourg and Carbon2Business at Lägerdorf — and none is operating. Under construction is demonstration.2024-05-16
• CO2 transport and storagetechnologyearly-commercial — Captured CO2 from Brevik is shipped and stored under the Norwegian Longship chain, which is the first full chain in Europe to take third-party industrial CO2. One chain in service is early-commercial.2025-06-18
• Alternative fuels in the kilntechnologycommercial — Substitution rates are set as ordinary operating targets in plant investment plans rather than trialled; EQIOM's Lumbres line is built around 80% substitution by 2027.2024-02-15
• Direct separation carbon capturetechnologydemonstration — Calix's own milestone list for Leilac-2: financial investment decision approved (2022), value engineering completed (2022), FEED study published (2023), procurement of long lead items underway (2023). One demonstration plant at 100,000 t/yr and none operating. THE PAGE CARRIES NO DATELINE, so the date is the capture that proves the text existed and is an upper bound.2025-02-26

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Which EU rules matter for cement

8 of 72 tracked measures are in this sector's view, ordered by what they cost or grant it — as of 2026-08-21

• Importers pay for the carbon in the cement they bring inThe carbon in imported cement is charged at €75.46 per tonne at today's carbon price, and from 2028 the certificates covering it have to be bought in the same year they are used.
• Free carbon allowances for European kilns are being withdrawnEuropean cement makers lose their free allowances on a fixed schedule that reaches zero in 2038, which costs €1.36 per tonne of clinker at today's carbon price and more every year after that.
• EU grants for cutting industrial emissions€615 million has been awarded from the Innovation Fund to European cement projects that capture their CO2.
• Public contracts must buy low-carbon concreteFrom 2029, public buyers have to require concrete that meets the low-carbon and Union-origin rules the act sets, in the contracts the act covers.
• Oil and gas producers must provide somewhere to put the CO2Europe's oil and gas producers have to open, between them, enough permanent CO2 storage to meet the Union's target for 2030, each taking a share in proportion to what it produces.

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What EU rules and money support in cement

€655 m committed across 7 allocations, 3 of them carrying no published figure — as of 2025-06-18

• EU grants for cutting industrial emissions€615 m of the €655 m committed to this sector was awarded under it, to 5 tracked projects. Eligibility ongoing.