UK: Material Evolution has partnered with CRH subsidiary Tarmac to launch a pilot project to test applications of its heat-free, 85% reduced-CO₂ cement, MevoCem. The partners aim to demonstrate the suitability of MevoCem cement for use in concrete production in line with the prospective BSI Flex 350 performance-based standard.

Material Evolution’s CEO Liz Gilligan welcomed Tarmac as an ‘early adopter’ of MevoCem cement. In a post to LinkedIn, she said “We have been quietly building something game-changing with CRH and their team at Tarmac. It is bold, it is industrial scale and it is all about cutting carbon where it counts. We are only just getting started.”

Material Evolution currently operates a 120,000t/yr plant in Wrexham, Wales.

Qatar: UCC Holding, in partnership with Qatar's Public Works Authority, has commenced the printing of two schools with a combined built-up area of 40,000m², on 100 x 100m plots. Gulf Construction News has reported that Denmark-based COBOD supplied two customised BODXL printers for the tasks. UCC Holding says that each building is 20 times more massive than any existing 3D-printed building. Its dedicated 3D printing team has conducted more than 100 full-scale test prints using a BOD2 printer, and completed intensive training alongside COBOD engineers.

COBOD General Manager Henrik Lund-Nielsen noted the scale of UCC Holding’s custom selection of BODXL printer. "The world has never seen such a large 3D construction printer before, and it is more than four times bigger than the second biggest printer. On its own, this printer can produce a 1500m² footprint up to five floors."

US: National Ready Mixed Concrete has suspended pay and healthcare cover for over 300 locked-out drivers, mechanics and bulk material haulers at 10 of its sites in Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura Counties. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters union has reported that the workers, its members, rejected a new contract offered by the company. It reportedly included cuts to seniority-related job security, expansions of managerial control and ‘substandard’ wages. The union has demanded an immediate end to the lockout, full reinstatement of affected workers and a restart of negotiations.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters says that it has filed ‘multiple’ unfair labour practice charges against National Ready Mixed Concrete over its alleged surface bargaining and bad faith conduct.

The union noted its success in contract negotiations with local producer Catalina Pacific Concrete earlier in July 2025, where the parties concluded a contract on favourable terms for workers, including real wage increases.

Europe/India: Finland-based Elematic and Netherlands-based Hendriks Formwork have concluded a cooperation agreement for the supply of turnkey precast concrete structures for high-rise building and infrastructure construction. The partnership will deploy Elematic's production equipment and software with Hendriks Formwork's custom steel moulds and modular formwork systems. They will target markets globally, with a particular focus on India.