In the long arc of industrial civilization's reckoning with its own environmental costs, Holcim's mid-2026 earnings offer a quiet but telling signal: a century-old materials business is finding that the turn toward sustainability is not a constraint on growth, but a source of it. Reporting from Zurich on July 31st, CEO Miljan Gutovic presented numbers that did something unusual — they improved as the year progressed, with organic net sales rising to 6.4% and recurring EBIT to 13.1% in Q2 alone. The story here is less about a single quarter and more about whether the construction industry's gre