UK: Design and engineering consultancies COWI UK and Curtins Consulting and contractor Keltbray Group have joined the Advance Market Commitment (AMC) to use reduced-CO₂ concrete. Innovate UK announced the signings at Concrete Transition Capital's London Climate Action Week event. The AMC commits signatories to purchasing reduced-CO₂ concrete, in order to send a demand signal to unlock investment in concrete decarbonisation. It now has 13 signatories.

Innovate UK launched the AMC with in November 2025, with investment body Carbon Limiting Technologies and backing from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Signatories are now working with the insurance sector to develop pathways for insuring reduced-CO₂ concretes.

Colombia: The Financial Superintendence of Colombia has authorised a proposed merger between Cementos Argos and Concretos Argos. The company explained that both entities carry out complementary activities and that the integration aims to move toward a ‘simpler, more agile, and more efficient’ corporate structure without disrupting operational continuity. Cementos Argos will act as the absorbing company in the transaction, while Concretos Argos will be the absorbed entity, given that the former is the sole shareholder of the latter.

The process had already been approved by the competent bodies of both companies on 17 March 2026. It received the backing of the General Assembly of Ordinary Bondholders for Cementos Argos’ outstanding issuances on 15 April 2026, prior to obtaining final authorisation from the Financial Superintendence on 30 June 2026.

Sweden: France-based precast concrete producer Consolis has divested its majority stake in Swedish subsidiary Strängbetong to prefabricated structures specialist CarlGustav Group. Consolis says that it will retain a minority shareholding in the company. The parties expect the transaction to complete later in 2026.

UK: The Guernsey Competition and Regulatory Authority (GCRA) has found that ‘significantly’ higher-than-UK concrete prices do not constitute anti-competitive behaviour by sole local producer Ronez. Local press has reported that the producer’s prices were found to ‘reflect the structural realities and costs of operating in a small island market.’

GCRA CEO Michael Byrne said "There is no single quick fix, but this highlights clear ways that the Channel Islands can help improve how the market works, addressing long-standing barriers to supply, strengthening competition over time, and delivering better outcomes for consumers and taxpayers."