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Colombia: Cementos Argos has inaugurated four new ready-mix concrete batching plants in Bogotá. One plant is fixed and the other three are mobile, with a combined investment value of US$1.59m. Cementos Argos says that it has gained 276,000m³/yr in additional capacity as result.

Cementos Argos Colombia Central manager Alexander Pedraza said "The mobility situation in Bogotá has challenged us to innovate and develop solutions that allow us to be ever closer to our customers.”

Colombia: Cemex Colombia has announced the launch of its 40% reduced CO₂ Vertua mortar.

The company said "Vertua aims to enable builders to adapt the sustainable features of their projects through its five specific and measurable attributes: lower carbon emissions, energy efficiency, water conservation, recycled materials and design optimisation."

Colombia: Cemento País expects to commission its upcoming Aguas Prietas grinding plant in Turbaco, Bolívar, soon. The plant will have a capacity of 0.48t/yr, and cost US$20m in total. ESEuro News has reported that investors in Cemento País include engineering and construction firm AGM Desarrollos. The owners expect to corner a 15% share in Colombia’s Atlantic Coast cement market. The Aguas Prietas grinding plant will also produce 300,000m³/yr of ready-mix concrete.

Colombia: Cemex has announced the launch of the Tunjuelo Circularity Centre at its former Tunjuelo quarry near Bogotá. Having rebuilt parts of the 50m-deep quarry with demolition waste, Cemex will now work on its ecological restoration, while continuing to receive excavation waste for reconstruction of the ground. It will meanwhile divert demolition waste deliveries for recycling in aggregate production. In Bogotá, Cemex has launched an initiative for urban construction partnerships in collaboration with local authorities. It will also collect municipal solid waste (MSW) there for use in its cement production and collect its used plastic cement bags for recycling in building materials production.

Cemex’s Colombia and Peru president Alejandro Ramírez said "This is a pioneering model for Cemex in the construction materials industry globally, which we aim to position as a benchmark for circularity within the sustainable development of large cities in Colombia and the world. A piece of land that supplied materials for Bogotá's development for decades has received construction and demolition waste for its redevelopment and was transformed into a green area to the south of the city, an epicenter of the circular economy and an opportunity for urban development for the capital city of Colombia."

Colombia: Cementos Argos has shared plans for an 80% increase to its planned aggregates production capacity in Colombia to 4.5Mt/yr by 2024. In 2022, the company predicts that its aggregates business will contribute full-year earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of US$2.8bn.

Colombia's annual aggregates consumption is 130 - 140Mt/yr.