Hover Cement Plant

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Hover Cement Plant (Hover Zementwerk) is an integrated cement plant operating in Sehnde, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Location

The map below shows the exact location of the cement plant in Sehnde, Niedersachsen, Germany:

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Coordinates (WGS 84): 52.353420, 9.888530 (exact)

Background

In 2021, owner Holcim signed a contract to provide their Lagerdorf and Hover cement plants with 30,000MWh of offshore wind power. Also in 2021, Holcim signed a memorandum of understanding with Holcim Deutschland to deliver a carbon capture system for a carbon capture and storage trial. The system was installed by Cool Planet Technologies based on Hereon’s PolyActive membrane technology, and ran from 2022-2023, with subsequent expansions planned for 2024 and 2026. In 2024, Cool Planet Technologies raised €23.7m in funding to support the development of Cool Planet's ‘low-energy, low-cost’ membrane-based carbon capture technology. It will also go towards the construction of a new membrane manufacturing facility at the Höver cement plant.

Cement Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant type	Plant status	Start date
integrated	Operating	1908

Table 2: Ownership Details

Additional information including parent company references and full ownership trees available at the Global Energy Ownership Tracker.

Parent company	Parent company GEM ID	Owner name	Owner company GEM ID
Holcim AG [100.0%]	E100001000571 [100.0%]	Holcim Germany AG [100%] (Holcim Deutschland AG (German) [100%])	E100002006800 [100.0%]

Table 3: Capacities

Cement capacity (million metric tonnes per annum)	Clinker capacity (million metric tonnes per annum)	Unspecified capacity (million metric tonnes per annum)
1	0.8	–

Table 4: Cement Production

Primary cement color	Primary cement type	Production type	Green cement technology
grey	blended	dry	Carbon capture, utilization, and/or storage ; Alternative fuels

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Additional data

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