Environmental
Essroc agrees to pay fine on reporting violations, USA
Essroc Cement Corporation has agreed to pay a US$82,000 fine for alleged violations. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imposed the fine to settle alleged violations of toxic chemical reporting requirements at Essroc’s plant in Nazareth, PA. According to the EPA, a June 2011...
HeidelbergCement Quarry Life Award
The first edition of the Quarry Life Award launched by HeidelbergCement raised strong interest from students and researchers. Over 300 project proposals will be competing in 18 countries on four continents. At the...
DG Khan waste heat project registered with UNFCCC
Pakistan's DG Khan Cement’s waste heat recovery project, has been registered with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for carbon credit. The project, situated at Dera Ghazi Khan, is gen...
Pakistan: DG Khan Cement receives UN carbon credits
DG Khan Cement Company is to receive CO2 credits from the UN for setting up its new waste heat recovery project. “The Waste Heat Recovery Project of the company situated at Dera Ghazi Khan, generating 10.4MW of ele...
USA: Tehachapi cement plant has one of nation's highest mercury emission levels
The Environmental Protection Agency has rated Lehigh Southwest Cement plant’s mercury emissions as the second highest in the USA. The Lehigh Tehachapi plant produced 872lb of mercury in 2010, according to the Envi...
USA: Lehigh proposes land swap
Under a proposal with Lehigh Southwest Cement Co, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest around Lake Shasta could grow by about 246 acres. Lehigh Southwest Cement wants to swap about 78 acres of Forest Service land ne...
Suez Cement bag filter project completed, Egypt
Egypt’s Head of Environmental Affairs, Eng. Hossam Hegazy, accompanied by a number of senior officials from his ministry visited on Tuesday, February 7th, 2012, Tourah Portland Cement Company (TPCC), a subsidiary of ...
China considers tougher emission rules for cement producers
China's environment ministry is considering launching stricter rules regarding NOx emissions from cement plants, which, if implemented, could sharply affect the net profits of local producers. Chinese Vice Minister...
Ash Improvement Technology and Sika alliance
Ash Improvement Technology Inc (AIT) and Sika AG of Switzerland announced today that they entered a Strategic Alliance to develop products to help reduce the CO2 emissions related to the production of cement. As part...
Cemex waste fuel agreement, Mexico
Cemex has been using waste from Mexico city as part of its production process since last November. The company ships between 500tpd and 600tpd, a figure that could rise to 1000t soon, to feed Cemex's plants in the ne...
WBCSD – quarry rehabilitation guidelines released
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has released Guidelines on Quarry Rehabilitation which provides practical guidance for managing the impacts of quarrying activities and ensuring that env...
Holcim files lawsuit over EUA theft, Romania
Holcim has filed a lawsuit against Romania’s carbon registry for damages relating to EUR1m allowances that were stolen from the company in a hacking attack in 2010, Reuters reports. The company said it had filed a E...
Dyckerhoff Ukraine in alternative fuels initiative
Dyckerhoff Ukraine intends to use briquettes of household fuel as waste at its Volyn Tsement plant in Zdolbuniv, Rivne region. Ukrainian News reported the company’s head of ecology, Roman Naumenko, as saying that t...
St Marys Cement to pilot new CO2 absorption system
Toronto-based Pond Biofuels is piloting a new CO2 absorption system at St Marys Cement, Canada. The new equipment will cut greenhouse gases by absorbing dirty stack emissions to grow algae which can subsequently b...
Lehigh quarry development discussions, USA
Residents of New Windsor, Maryland, USA, are hoping that a public hearing will be granted by the US Army Corps of Engineers on a permit application by Lehigh Cement Co in relation to the development of its New Windso...
India: NCP demands closure of illegal cement units
India's opposition, National Congress Party, today demanded the government should stop all cement plants operating illegally in Jaintia Hills district