Australia: The former Suvo Strategic Minerals has changed its name to Green360 Technologies, Proactive Investors News has reported.

The company’s joint venture (JV) with precast concrete products company PERMAcast recently commissioned a chemicals handling plant at its reduced-CO₂ concrete demonstration plant in Western Australia. The JV has also completed engineering design for the next phase of the plant’s expansion, namely a dry materials handling plant, scheduled for commissioning by mid-2025.

Green360 Technologies Executive Chair Aaron Banks said “The upgrades that are being implemented to our batching plant will allow for a greater degree of production accuracy in our cement-free, low carbon concrete. This is a pivotal step in the pathway towards commercialisation. The batching plant has been designed to seamlessly accommodate future scalability which would allow the plant to produce low-carbon concrete at increased quantities, which is timely as the joint venture company is now actively quoting jobs.”

US: Vulcan Materials has secured approval for a zoning change for a planned industrial park in Terrell, Texas. The proposed park will include a ready-mix concrete batching plant and a rail yard. Vulcan Materials told local residents that it will implement dust suppression and other measures to minimise noise.

Russia: The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade has added reinforced concrete products and modular prefabricated structures to its list of critical industrial products for the building materials industry for 2025 – 2027. The ministry’s partner publication Stroygazeta News has reported that the Russian government will now support producers with preferential lending arrangements through the Russian Industrial Development Fund.

Ukraine: Kovalska will launch its upcoming Rozvadiv concrete products plant in Lviv in June 2025, Delo News has reported. The plant will replace the company’s Nova Kakhovka plant on the Russian-occupied left bank of the River Dnieper in Kherson. It will produce aerated concrete blocks and U-blocks, concrete panels and reinforced concrete products for the Western Ukrainian market and for export. Netherlands-based Aircrete Europe is supplying some production equipment for the facility. The project has funding from the Dutch Good Growth Fund.

Director Igor Subotenko said that, after commissioning the plant at full capacity, Kovalska will immediately begin construction of another one adjacent to it. Eventual investments will reach €100m, of which Kovalska has already spent €50m.