Cement News tagged: Environmental
Lucky Cement wins sustainability award, Pakistan
Lucky Cement Limited, Pakistan's largest cement manufacturer and exporter, has received the Best Sustainability Report and the Best Corporate Report Awards - 2011. Lucky Cement secured overall Top position in the category for Best Sustainability Report Award, whereas its Corporate Report received 1st position in cement and sugar category. ??These awards for year 2011 were announced in a cer...
Lafarge awarded Carbon Trust Standard recertification
Lafarge, has joined an elite set of ‘green' firms to achieve recertification of the Carbon Trust Standard. Only a third of companies have succeeded in regaining the Standard - the world's first carbon reduction award for organisations taking action on climate change. Lafarge Aggregates & Concrete UK, based in Syston, Leicestershire, obtained recertification thanks to ever evolving energy sa...
PPC receives environmental approval for Western Cape modernisation, South Africa
South Africa’s leading cement producer Pretoria Portland Cement has been granted environmental authorisation by the Western Cape Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning for phase 2 of its Western Cape modernisation strategy. The upgrade project encompasses the replacement of two ageing cement kilns at the Riebeeck plant with a new five stage preheater kiln. This mark...
Germany alternative fuels usage over 3Mt in 2011
The German cement industry reported stable alternative fuels usage in 2011, but growth in cement production and fuel consumption meant that the absolute tonnage was higher than in the year before, according to recent figures from the German Cement Works Association (VDZ). The alternative fuels share in total fuel use stood at 61 per cent in 2011 and 2010. In 2009, alternative fuels sh...
Ambuja Cements wins safety awards
Ambuja Cements has won two national awards for safety at its Rabriyawas plant in Rajasthan. The company bagged the first prize for its good performance in industrial safety and was runner-up in the category, ‘Accident Free Year.’ This is for the second consecutive year that the plant has won the National Safety Awards, according to The Hindu Business Line. The awards have been institute...
Continental Cement Co to upgrade clinker storage facilities
Continental Cement Company LLC has agreed to complete a Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) valued at US$300,000 at its Hannibal (MO) facility. The SEP is part of a consent agreement with The Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 in which Continental Cement has also agreed to pay a US$22,025 civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act in 2007 and 2008. Th...
Taiwan Cement and Asia Cement to upgrade environmental equipment in China
Anticipating stricter environmental regulations for cement producers in China, Taiwan Cement Co plans to invest TWD700m (US$23.8m) to upgrade its NOx and SOx abatement equipment, while Asia Cement is considering the same step. Taiwan Cement International Holdings Ltd. has started installing new equipment in its Chongqing plant, aiming to decrease NOx emissions by 60 per cent, with the same...
Reliance Cement awaits clearance for new plant, India
Reliance Cement expects to start its first integrated unit located at Mahiyar in Madhya Pradesh, India by mid-2014. However, there may be a gap of six months at least for another one planned at Mukutban in Yavatmal district to get commissioned. The lag is due to a forest clearance being awaited for a part of the limestone mines in Mukutban from where raw material will be sourced. "The mines a...
Enersource and Holcim (Canada) launch heat recovery project
Enersource has assisted Holcim (Canada) in securing a financial incentive from the Ontario Power Authority of US$6.37m to support the development and construction of a waste heat recovery project at their Mississauga cement plant. "Projects like this are both economically and environmentally-sound," said Craig Fleming, President and CEO at Enersource. He added, "Conservation initiatives cap...
Guangdong producers buy CO2 permits
Four cement producers in China's Guangdong province have bought 1.3 million CO2 permits from the local government at CNY60/unit (EUR7.25), according to local press. China Resources Cement, Sinoma, Taipai and Yangchun Hailuo bought the permits in a bid to hedge their carbon exposure as they plan to expand cement production capacity by 25Mta over the next few years, newspaper 21st Century Bus...
Kohat Cement plans waste heat recovery project, Pakistan
Pakistan cement producer Kohat Cement is planning to construct a 9MW waste heat recovery project (WHRP). Sources say the plant will reduce electricity dependency on the national grid by 38 per cent. Kohat is currently under negotiations with different suppliers, although the project cost and its timeline are as yet undisclosed. The company achieved YoY profitability 26 times higher with ...
Holcim to employ more co-processing in China
Holcim will focus on co-processing technology to get ahead in China’s competitive market. The Swiss major views China as a valuable market where its profits improve in future years. "The current market is flat. As the market continues to flatten, the nature of competition will change. The values of sustainability and environmental performance will play a much bigger role for a company's fur...
USA: Buzzi Unicem trials use of hazardous waste fuel at Cape Girardeau plant
A series of trials is underway at Buzzi Unicem’s Cape Girardeau cement facility in an effort to use more hazardous waste as fuel. The company invested US$1m in the project, aimed at cutting its operating expenses by replacing more of its coal with alternative fuels. For about 20 years, the company, formerly known as Lonestar Industries, has used hazardous waste as fuel to heat its kiln. In ...
China: State Council plans to invest CNY2.366tn over 2011-15 on energy conservation
China plans to invest about CNY2.366tn (US$372.5bn) in projects for energy conservation and carbon-emissions reduction over the 2011-15 period, the State Council, said in a statement. The statement, which was issued to ministries and provincial-level governments on 6 August but only released to the public this week, didn't disclose the amount already invested or how much would be spent over...
India: “Cement factories must adhere to safety norms to check pollution”
Cement factories should play a vital role in checking pollution by strictly adhering to specified norms, said D Vasudevan, former chief inspector of factories and advisor to National Safety Council-Tamil Nadu chapter. At the inauguration of a two-day training programme on ‘health and safety management in cement industries’, organised by Tiruchi sub-committee of National Safety Council on Frid...
Indian producers sign pact signed to support low-carbon cement investments
Indian cement majors, including ACC Ltd, Shree Cement Ltd and Ultratech, have signed a co-operation pact to support low-carbon investments in India, Business Line India report. The pact was signed in Geneva with member companies of the World Business Council (WBC) for Sustainable Development’s Cement Sustainability Initiative and International Finance Corporation (IFC). Under the pact, a L...