Cement News tagged: Environmental
Costa Rica: residents seek relief from dust
Residents of Lourdes de Agua Caliente, Cartago, Costa Rica, have spoken out about dust emissions from a nearby Holcim Costa Rica plant. The Ministry of Health visited the plant in question this week, ordering it to control its dust emissions. Reports of dust clouds date back three years and have reportedly been a regular occurrence ever since. A company official from Holcim Costa Rica said ...
Australia: Adelaide Brighton Cement agrees gas deal
Adelaide Brighton Cement Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Adelaide Brighton Ltd, has signed a gas purchase agreement with Beach Energy Ltd for the delivery of exMoomba of processed sales gas from Beach's 100 per cent owned Western Flank acreage. Supply of gas over a 12-month term is expected to commence on 1 January 2017, with the agreement replacing Beach's existing ex PEL 106 raw gas sale...
Shree Cement awaits environmental clearance for West Bengal grinding unit
Shree Cement is awaiting environmental clearance for its cement grinding unit in West Bengal, India. The company plans to build a 5Mta grinding plant at Prabatpur and Digha villages, Raghunathpur, Puralia district. The estimated INR6bn (US$88m) project also includes a 20MW coal- and petcoke-based captive power unit. A public hearing is scheduled for 9 December 2016. Shree Cement is y...
Protests again Semen Indonesia plant
Approximately 300 people from Rembang, Central Java, have marched 150km in protest of the construction of a cement plant in the area by state-owned Semen Indonesia. The march was undertaken in a bid to force Central Java Governor, Ganjar Pranowo, to revoke the environmental permit issued to Semen Indonesia for the project in 2012.
Vietnam: Ha Long Cement dust complaints
Residents of the northern Quang Ninh Province's Hoanh Bo District have complained about dust emissions, noise and smoke from the Ha Long Cement plant. Nguyen Van Ty head of Dat Do Village’s residential area said dust had been continuously discharged for 20 days. A representative from the cement plant responded to this claim, saying the plant had suffered technical errors and that the issue ...
USA: Orcem receives backlash over new plant
Orcem America has said it wants to set up operations in Vallejo, California, opposite the Mare Island peninsula. Under Orcem’s proposal, slag would be brought in from Asia via the Mare Island Strait. Despite the project providing a guaranteed 30 well-paid jobs to an area of economic plight, the plans have not been met positively by locals, who have raised concerns over the pollution and dis...
EU urged to end carbon credits system
Carbon Market Watch is urging EU lawmakers to abolish the carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS) after it was revealed that cement producers took EUR5bn windfall from scheme between 2008 and 2015. The watchdog used analysis by consultancy CE Delft and delved into the leading cement producers annual reports to find out the financial benefit of the ETS to cement producers. Companies lik...
A TEC commissions its Rocket Mill at Wiener Neustadt
To optimise the production of highly-caloric residue-derived fuels for the cement industry the Austrian company ASA has installed an A TEC’s Rocket Mill ® RM 2.50 double at its treatment plant in Wiener Neustadt. Folowing seven months of engineering, construction works and installation on-site A TEC’s Rocket Mill ® was commissioned on 7 November 2016. Pre-sorted and shredded household and...
Irish Cement's tyre burning plans could end up in High Court
The dispute on Irish Cement's plans to burn used tyres at its Castlemungret plant look set to end up in the High Court as residents seek to prevent the implementation of the EUR10m project. Members of Limerick Against Pollution (LAP) protested outside County Hall on Monday for the full council meeting to show their opposition to the scheme, with spokesperson Aongus Mitchell saying: “We ar...
Philippines: Taiheiyo contributes to National Greening Programme
Employees from Taiheiyo Cement Philippines Inc and Solid Earth Development Corp planted 5350 seedlings across different sites in San Fernando in support of the National Greening Programme (NGP). Taiheiyo Philippines plant manager and senior vice president for operations, Kazuhiko Ichizawa, and Kazuhiko Soma, operations division manager, led 30 employees in the tree-planting activity that wa...
Gaza residents oppose new cement plant
In October 2016 Sanad Construction Industries (SCI) announced the launch of the first phase of a project to build a cement plant in a vacant lot in the West Bank. This first phase would see the construction of the plant’s crusher following the company obtaining approval from the Ministry of Economy and Minister of Local Environment Quality Authority (EQA). However, when representatives from SC...
Kenya: Bamburi Cement and Geocycle form partnership
Bamburi Cement (LafargeHolcim Group) and a global waste management firm have signed an agreement for alternative fuels. Geocycle will help Bamburi Cement that will see the firm's Kenyan subsidiary Geocycle Kenya incinerate waste in Bamburi's kilns. Bamburi Chief Executive Officer, Bruno Pescheux, described the partnership as timely considering that Geocycle's waste management solution lea...
India: Dalmia Cement commits to 100% renewable power
Dalmia Cement Ltd is the first cement company in India to join RE100, a global collaborative initiative of the world’s most influential companies committed to running their operations with 100 per cent renewable power, led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP. Following the addition of 8MW solar photovoltaic capacity for its captive use, the company said it would aim to raise its sha...
USA: Cemex Victorville receives WHC certification
Cemex USA's Victorville cement plant in southern California recently celebrated its 100th anniversary and has received the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) Conservation Certification for its ongoing sustainability, environmental protection and land stewardship efforts. WHC presented the Victorville plant with the certification 3 November during a ceremony at the 2016 WHC Conservation Conferen...
Cement producers won't ignore climate change
In a week when Donald Trump, a staunch sceptic of climate change, has become the US President-elect, there was better news for environmentalists – not only because the Paris Agreement came into force, but also because the European Commission announced that it would invest some EUR227m in 144 green and low-carbon projects in member states. While there is no single answer to the challenges pr...
Irish Cement AF proposal receives backlash
Willie O’Dea, technical director or Fianna Fáil (Irish political party) has accused Irish Cement of “an illegitimate and wrongful attempt” to influence a planning decision after company bosses insinuated that it may not have a future in the region should its plans to switch to alternative fuels be blocked. Irish Cement’s EUR10m proposal will apparently secure the future of 80 jobs and see f...