Day: April 12, 2026

Just outside of Uzés

The Calcia cement plant in Beaucaire is among the 50 most polluting industrial sites in France, responsible collectively for 10% of the country’s CO2 emissions. President Macron has pledged five billion euros to help these sites decarbonize, with Heidelberg Materials, Calcia’s parent company, committing an additional 45 million euros to carbon capture infrastructure at the Beaucaire site. Who would have thought that a cement factory was worth so much!