Hebei strengthens the quality management of ready-mixed concrete

The conference focused on industry trends and policies, and conspired for the coordinated and high-quality development of the concrete industry.

2025-09-23 15:30:59

According to the catalogue, in the catalogue of industrial water-saving processes, technologies and equipment encouraged by the state (2025 edition), there are three items related to the concrete and cement industries, namely, intelligent waste-free dry cleaning technology for ready-mixed concrete tankers, sewage treatment and reclaimed water recovery system, and zero-discharge concrete mixing device for waste water and waste residue.

2025-09-19 09:32:14

Shaoguan strengthens the supervision of the whole process of ready-mixed concrete quality, strengthens the management of production, transportation, entry, acceptance and information, and improves the quality of the project.

2025-09-18 13:47:00

Recently, the ready-mix plant, which belongs to the western construction of China Construction, has successfully obtained the three-star certification of "zero carbon plant", which means that through the implementation of a series of emission reduction measures, the plant has offset more than 50% of the remaining greenhouse gas emissions in a certain period of time under the dual accounting scope of direct and indirect emissions. This is the eighth "zero carbon plant" awarded by China Construction Western Construction, which also provides a new direction for the green upgrading of the industry.

2025-09-18 09:29:56

Recently, the project of Kangrunda E-commerce Industrial Building in Foshan, Guangdong, was notified due to quality problems. It is reported that the building has serious cracks and substandard strength of concrete due to excessive retarder caused by repeated illegal feeding adjustment at the mixing station site. The relevant units have been criticized and the construction units, supervision units and ready-mixed concrete units have been deducted 5 points of integrity.

2025-09-16 16:10:01

Morocco's construction industry continues to grow strongly. By the end of August 2025, the national cement delivery volume reached 9.63 million tons, an increase of 10.38% over the same period last year, indicating the simultaneous expansion of infrastructure and real estate projects. The demand structure is diversified, and distribution channels and ready-mixed concrete have contributed. In August, 1.34 million tons were delivered, an increase of 6.54% over the same period last year, and the continued growth was not affected by the season. Cement sales are in line with national projects such as the "2030 World Cup", which is a barometer of investment enthusiasm and confidence. Double-digit growth speeds up public and private projects, promotes employment and regional economic diversification.

2025-09-11 09:10:59

In the first half of 2025, the western construction realized business income of 9.021 billion yuan, a decrease of 8.85% compared with the previous year, and the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was-0.96 billion yuan, a decrease of 1810.39% compared with the previous year.

2025-09-05 17:00:49

The list shows that a total of 10 recycled products produced by 8 enterprises, such as C15-C25 ready-mixed concrete produced by Nanjing Conch Green New Material Technology Co., Ltd., were announced.

2025-09-02 11:45:20

Recently, Jinyu Group announced its mid-term performance in 2025. Among them, the concrete business in Hebei, Shaanxi, Jilin, Tianjin and Chongqing has newly acquired, leased and commissioned 10 websites, with an additional capacity of more than 9.23 million cubic meters, and the current production capacity of ready-mixed concrete is more than 60 million cubic meters.

2025-08-29 16:32:45

On August 27, Jinyu Group announced its interim results for 2025. In the first half of the year, the Company's operating income was RMB45.566 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 0.01%; the net loss attributable to shareholders of the parent company was RMB1.496 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of approximately 85.4%.

2025-08-28 17:20:32

The meeting pointed out that in recent days, steel slag, nickel slag and other industrial wastes and unqualified sand materials formed by their processing have flowed into our province. All ready-mixed concrete enterprises should attach great importance to it and earnestly implement the main responsibility of enterprise production from the aspects of market behavior, contract management, raw material control, entity quality, dust control and enterprise production and operation safety. Do not use unqualified sand materials.

2025-08-22 14:49:38

The project plans to adopt domestic advanced complete automatic concrete production line, concrete mixer truck and other equipment, and is expected to form an annual production capacity of 600000 cubic meters of commercial concrete.

2025-08-18 13:28:54

Purchasing units shall purchase ready-mixed concrete from production enterprises that have obtained professional contracting qualification for ready-mixed concrete, and shall strictly prohibit the purchase and use of concrete produced by enterprises without production qualification. Before procurement, the procurement unit shall inspect the professional contracting qualification of ready-mixed concrete of ready-mixed concrete production enterprises, and strictly prohibit ready-mixed concrete produced by production enterprises without corresponding qualification or during the period of suspension and rectification from entering the construction site of construction projects.

2025-08-15 17:24:18

Introducing distributed photovoltaic, new energy logistics and other technologies, applying digital platform "concrete system" and intelligent production line, relying on national R & D resources, carrying out research on key technologies such as low-carbon building materials and intelligent integrated manufacturing, and striving to become a benchmark demonstration project of green transformation and intelligent manufacturing in the construction industry. A series of achievements have been made in deepening the transformation of "digitalization and greening".

2025-08-15 10:46:59

The two sides conducted in-depth discussions on environmental protection, intellectualization and new green building materials of concrete ready-mix plants, hoping to take this visit and exchange as an opportunity to achieve resource sharing, complementary advantages and win-win development in long-term cooperation, and contribute to the high-quality development of China Construction Group's overseas business.

2025-08-11 10:46:47

After research, Foshan Lianyi Building Materials Co., Ltd. and Foshan Nanhai Tongda Concrete Co., Ltd. are now notified of the supply of concrete to illegal construction projects in the whole district and deducted 5 points for each. All enterprises are requested to take precautions, strictly examine the project data, obtain legal approval procedures for land use, planning and construction before supply, and put an end to the supply of ready-mixed concrete and ready-mixed mortar to illegal construction.

2025-08-11 09:32:50

A technical achievement declared by the company, a curing agent for environmentally friendly conductive cement-based materials and its preparation method and application, was authorized by the State Intellectual Property Office for invention patents. In order to solve the problems of slow development of early strength of concrete in winter construction, carbonization and environmental pollution caused by industrial by-products such as steel slag and rice husk ash, this achievement innovatively exerts the physical and chemical characteristics of industrial solid wastes such as ground steel slag powder, metakaolin and modified rice husk ash, and uses alkali-activated technology to significantly improve the low temperature carbonization resistance, early strength and durability of concrete.

2025-08-11 09:21:07

In order to accelerate the popularization and application of green building materials and promote the coordinated development of the construction industry and the building materials industry, the Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Bureau of Luzhou City has drafted the Implementation Plan on Accelerating the Popularization and Application of Green Building Materials (Draft for Comments), which is now open to the public for comments. Relevant units and individuals are requested to submit their comments through the following channels. The deadline for feedback is August 31, 2025.

2025-07-31 13:10:37

On July 29, the Chongqing Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Commission issued a notice on further strengthening the quality management of ready-mixed concrete in housing and municipal engineering. Among them, it is proposed to strengthen the procurement management of ready-mixed concrete. It is strictly forbidden to purchase and use concrete produced by unqualified enterprises. Before purchasing, the construction unit shall conduct field investigation on the ready-mixed concrete production enterprise, confirm its production conditions and technical quality assurance capability, and verify whether the actual production address of the enterprise is consistent with the production address specified in the qualification certificate.

2025-07-31 09:30:06

In order to give full play to the leading role of green finance, improve the standard system and basic system of green finance, and further strengthen financial support for the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development and the construction of a beautiful China, the People's Bank of China, the General Administration of Financial Supervision and the China Securities Regulatory Commission recently jointly issued the Catalogue of Green Financial Support Projects (2025). It will come into effect on October 1, 2025.

2025-07-28 14:53:29

What is happening in the cement industry?

2025-07-19 07:02:04

According to data from the Ministry of Land Planning, Urbanization, Housing and Urban Policy of Morocco, by the end of June 2025, the national cement sales volume was 6.89 million tons, an increase of 9.79% over the previous year, and 836400 tons were sold in June, an increase of 12.09% over the previous year. According to the purpose, the highest sales volume of distribution channels is 3.82 million tons, 1.67 million tons of ready-mixed concrete, and different sales volumes of concrete products, including 448,500 tons of infrastructure, 196,600 tons of housing construction and 28,800 tons of mortar.

2025-07-18 14:17:23

Zhangzhou Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau reported the results of spot checks on ready-mixed concrete enterprises in the first half of 2025. A total of 17 rectification notices were issued and 77 problems were found, mainly in laboratory management and production management.

2025-07-17 09:56:46

Recently, China Cement Network released the list of TOP30 production capacity of ready-mixed concrete in China in 2024.

2025-07-17 09:52:01

During the verification, enterprises such as East China Material Suzhou Co., Ltd. and Kunshan Jiandu New Material Co., Ltd. were praised for their quality management standards and environmental protection measures. Enterprises such as Suzhou Hangda Cement Products Co., Ltd., Jinfurong (Taicang) Commodity Concrete Co., Ltd. and Zhangjiagang Rongxiang Concrete Co., Ltd. were named and criticized for their outstanding problems, involving many irregularities such as dirty test environment, lack of management system and inadequate dust control.

2025-07-15 09:14:55

This training is closely linked to the two core themes of "quality control + solid waste utilization". In view of the weak links of quality management in the current ready-mixed concrete industry and the technical bottleneck of solid waste resource utilization, the course content is carefully designed, and authoritative experts in the industry are invited to give lectures to provide participants with dual guidance of "theory + practice".

2025-07-15 09:12:45

From January to June 2025, Swiss cement shipments increased slightly by 2% to 1.786 million tons. The proportion of CEM II cement increased, the bulk cement dominated and the shipment volume increased slightly, and the bagged cement volume increased. Ready-mixed concrete enterprises absorb nearly 70% of the supply. Transportation is mainly by highway, and the share of railway transportation is declining. Despite external uncertainties, the Swiss construction industry is expected to remain robust, with the country's cement association rating the outlook for cement demand in the second half as "positive".

2025-07-14 11:18:55

The project is designed to produce 800000 cubic meters of ready-mixed concrete and 300000 tons of asphalt concrete annually.

2025-07-10 17:23:43

Recently, in order to strengthen the control of the source of project quality and standardize the market order of testing institutions and ready-mixed concrete enterprises, the Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Department of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has launched a special spot check on testing institutions and ready-mixed concrete enterprises. This inspection directly points to the "pain point" of the industry, and directly "shines the sword" to the problems that seriously threaten the quality of the project, such as the random adjustment of the concrete mix ratio, the fraud of the factory inspection, and the inconsistency between the inspection report and the original record.

2025-07-09 11:04:51

For the house construction projects under construction in the whole city, if there are concrete structure construction parts on the site, the production and maintenance of concrete standard maintenance specimens on the construction site shall be carried out in accordance with the requirements of this circular; the urban comprehensive pipe gallery projects under the supervision of the construction administrative department can be implemented by reference.

2025-07-03 10:28:42

Prompt announcement shows that on June 30, the cost information of ready-mixed concrete in Shenzhen was released in June. Taking C30 pumping concrete as an example, the price dropped again by 12.8 yuan per square meter this month. From January 2025 to now, the cost information has dropped by 41.7 yuan per square meter, a decrease of about 8.4%. The cost information of ready-mixed concrete in Shenzhen has been declining for 15 consecutive months, and it is understood that most enterprises in the industry are losing money.

2025-07-02 11:13:07

In 2023, Irish building materials manufacturer CRH announced the acquisition of part of Italy's Buzzi Unicem business in Eastern Europe, involving cement plants, cement terminals and ready-mixed concrete production enterprises in Ukraine. After nearly a year of review, the Ukrainian Antimonopoly Commission approved in September 2024 a request for CRH to transfer part of its subsidiary's shares to independent investors. The acquisition, totaling 100 million euros, was the second largest investment in Ukraine during the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

2025-06-30 10:44:20

The successful convening of this symposium will provide a clear direction for the construction of group standards for ready-mixed concrete industry in Guizhou Province and gather industry consensus. It is clearly pointed out that to strengthen the construction of group standards, we should fully implement the principle of "defining the main responsibility, innovating the application orientation", start from the perspective of enterprises, strive to be close to the actual daily production and operation of enterprises, and strengthen the unified management of enterprises through the implementation of standards. This symposium is to realize the strategic coupling of group standard construction, and provides the mechanism guarantee and technical support for the high-quality development of the industry.

2025-06-25 14:51:46

In view of the increasingly severe market situation in Wuhan, the phenomenon of malicious low-price competition in the industry is frequent, the sales price is constantly breaking through the bottom line, and the enterprises are facing a full-line loss state. In order to give full play to the leading role of leading enterprises, strengthen the industry self-discipline convention, and abide by the operating standards, on the afternoon of June 13, Wuhan Concrete Association organized a symposium on market operation analysis of more than ten key enterprises in Wuhan Shenghuaxin Building Materials Co., Ltd. to analyze the market situation of the industry, study the industry response measures, unify ideas, reach consensus and work hand in hand to get out of the current predicament.

2025-06-16 15:09:17

Ningxia Market Supervision Department and others jointly issued the Implementation Plan for the National Pilot Project of Cement Carbon Footprint Certification (Yinchuan City), in which three time node targets were proposed: in 2025, the carbon footprint certification of three national pilot cement enterprises was completed; In 2026, the scope of pilot products will be extended to the Portland cement clinker and products prepared with carbide slag as the main raw material and the grinding station, and the carbon footprint label certification of 20 products will be completed; in 2027, the carbon footprint label certification of more than 30 products will be realized, and the carbon emission factor database of the whole chain of "mine-cement-ready-mixed concrete/products" will be promoted.

2025-06-12 11:56:42

By the end of May 2025, Morocco's cement delivery exceeded 6 million tons, an increase of 9.48% over the same period in 2024. From the breakdown of use, distribution delivery volume ranks first, and ready-mixed concrete and precast concrete have their own delivery volume data. In May alone, the delivery volume reached 1.52 million tons, an increase of 6.99% over May 2024. These data come from the monthly reports issued by the relevant departments of the Moroccan state, and the statistics come from the internal data of the members of the Moroccan Cement Manufacturers Association, which includes a number of member enterprises.

2025-06-11 10:30:21

Two subsidiaries of the Cementir Holding N. V. Signed an agreement with the Arkoz Madencilik A. S to sell 100% of the shares of the Kars Cimento AS, with an enterprise value of 51 million euros, and the transaction was cash-free and debt-free. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of the year (regulatory approval required, etc.). The Kars Cimento AS is a cement plant in northeastern Turkey, with revenue of about 26.9 million euros and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization of about 3.9 million euros in 2024. The sale is in line with Cementir Group's strategic plan.

2025-06-03 13:30:25

Recently, in the supervision and inspection, our Bureau found that some ready-mixed concrete production enterprises (annexes) with qualification certificates in the new area could not meet the requirements of the qualification standards for professional contracting of ready-mixed concrete.

2025-05-29 15:22:15

They were fined about 76 million lira (about 14 million yuan).

2025-05-28 08:58:33

By the end of 2024, the Group had 32 concrete mixing plants and 64 production lines with an annual production capacity of 16.04 million cubic meters; The Group also owns a total of 307 concrete mixers, loaders, aggregate transport vehicles and powder transport vehicles, including 114 electric vehicles (including 7 driverless electric loaders), 1 rooftop distributed photovoltaic power station, 1 heavy truck charging and storage integrated energy station, 3 mini power exchange stations and 21 charging stations.

2025-04-29 10:12:38

"Anti-involution" is the theme of the current development of the cement industry, but "anti-involution" does not mean "rain and dew sharing" of market interests, nor is it a fundamental means to solve the development dilemma of the industry. Under the general trend of sharp contradiction between supply and demand, a large number of cement enterprises will inevitably be out of the current round of shuffling. As the saying goes, "Striking iron needs to be self-rigid", only by taking advantage of the final window period created by the industry's "anti-involution" to enhance the hard power of enterprises, can we truly control our own destiny in the wave of industry changes.

2025-04-28 13:13:44

At the key point of deepening the implementation of the "double carbon" goal, this meeting is not only a "pressure relief valve" for the industry to cope with policy pressure, but also a "leverage fulcrum" to leverage the new momentum of green development. With the deep integration of carbon market mechanism and green technology, the cement industry is transforming from a high energy-consuming industry to a low-carbon circular economy participant, and this conference may become an important milestone in this transformation process.

2025-04-27 10:18:14

In order to accelerate the realization of the "double carbon goal" and actively promote the green and high-quality development of the industry, China Cement Network will hold the "2025 China Cement Double Carbon Conference and the 13th Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Technology Exchange Conference" on May 27-28, 2025, and hold the release ceremony of the "2025 Cement Industry ESG Ranking List" at the same time. This conference will bring together industry elites and multi-resources to provide all-round support for the industry in terms of technology, policy landing and resource docking.

2025-04-22 16:47:26

Generally speaking, the proposal issued by the association includes strengthening industry self-discipline, opposing unfair competition and jointly maintaining market price order, aiming at guiding enterprises out of difficulties and promoting the healthy and stable development of the concrete industry.

2025-04-17 09:30:19

Overall, the domestic concrete market demand rebounded further in April, coupled with the cost side continued to push up, the actual price trend is expected to be volatile.

2025-04-10 10:20:22

Looking forward to the future, the company will continue to strengthen the development and layout of major national strategic regions, rapidly form output contribution, increase market share and market primacy, and achieve double improvement of "scale" and "efficiency". While promoting the admixture business and aggregate business, the Company continued to cultivate the industrial Internet business, iteratively upgraded the "concrete networking" platform of the concrete industry chain, and actively developed the national markets with better foundation and continued to develop new national markets.

2025-04-03 13:11:51

Since last year, the ready-mixed concrete industry in Xi'an has been facing difficulties due to the contraction of market demand, poor repayment, cost and profit pressure, and the problem of overcapacity has become increasingly serious.

2025-03-21 11:12:26

The relocation of commercial concrete in Liudong is not only an active response of Yufeng Group to the policy requirements of Liuzhou Municipal Government on the relocation and resettlement of ready-mixed concrete production enterprises in the central urban area, but also an important measure for the company to further strengthen the management of losses and reduce losses, promote the quality and efficiency of assets, and realize the integration of resources.

2025-03-21 11:06:47

In 2024, Holcim Group's full-year net sales were CHF 26.407 billion, up 1.3% year-on-year in local currency. In 2024, recurring EBIT reached a record high of CHF 5.049 billion, an increase of 10.8% on the previous year in local currency terms. The strong foreign exchange impact was more than offset by Holcim's performance, with full-year recurring EBIT up 6.1% in Swiss francs from a year earlier.

2025-03-17 10:10:38

In December 2018, Jiangsu Jinmou Company and Kunshan Hongmou Concrete Co., Ltd. signed a contract for the purchase and sale of concrete, which stipulated that Hongmou Company would provide ready-mixed concrete for the construction of a residential project. After the quality problems of the project, the main reason for the insufficient strength of concrete was identified through the testing and professional demonstration of professional organizations. A residential construction department imposed a fine on Hongmou Company for selling substandard cement, and ordered the construction party to rectify the poured project within a time limit (after demolition, recasting and physical reinforcement, the acceptance was qualified).

2025-03-11 10:25:08