Cement News tagged: Environmental
US EPA extends comment period for NESHAP Residual Risk rule
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has extend the comment period on its rule “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from the Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry Residual Risk and Technology Review” from 6 November to 21 November 2017. The EPA is making this change due to a request for additional time to prepare comments on the proposed rule.
Newberry and Roberta plants receive EPA Energy Star certification
Cementos Argos' Newberry and Roberta cement plants, located in Florida and Alabama, respectively, have received the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ENERGY STAR ® certification for outstanding performance and commitment towards reducing energy consumption and preserving environmental resources. The two plants had to perform in the top 25 per cent of similar facilities nationwide...
Petcoke ban in NCR expected to raise fuel costs and cement prices
Cement producers in northern states of India can expect rising fuel costs on the back of the Supreme Court's ban on petcoke use in the National Capital Region (NCR) from 1 November 2017. The Supreme Court acted to direct Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh governments to notify the ban immediately after it was informed that pollution in the NCR had shot up after Diwali, due to toxic gase...
Cemex Victorville wins California energy award
Cemex‘s Victorville Cement plant received the Southern California Edison (SCE) 2017 Energy Efficiency Award for its land stewardship and commitment to conserving energy. The award was presented during the 7th Annual Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, reports Aggregates Manager. "Cemex considers energy usage and the environment at all of our operations," says Eric Wittmann, Cemex USA region...
Irish Cement and local residents kept waiting on hazardous waste burning
An Bord Pleanála, Ireland's Planning Board, has said they need more time to decide on the planning permission granted to Irish Cement to enable it burn hazardous waste as a power source at its manufacturing plant in Mungret. In March Limerick City and County Council approved a EUR10m plan by Irish Cement that would allow the company burn up to 115 types of hazardous material, including ani...
Pollution control authority requests plant closure
India's Kakatiya Cement & Sugar Industries Ltd have been informed to close its cement division operations on directions from the pollution control authority. Following instructions sent by the Pollution Control Board, the supply of power to Kakatiya Cement and Sugar Industries Ltd's cement division was disconnected yesterday evening. The company, which operates a plant in the Nalgonda Distri...
Spain's cement industry in drive to reduce CO2 emissions 80% by 2050
According to a new report by Oficemen, the Spanish cement industry is undertaking steps to reduce its CO2 emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 when compared with 1990 as base year. In its “Roadmap of the Spanish cement industry for the reduction of carbon emissions by 2050”. Conventional means such as increased energy efficiency and co-processing will enable the sector to reduce its CO2 footprin...
Vietnam’s GENCO 1 in cement deal
Vietnam’s Power Generation Corporation 1 (GENCO 1), a unit of the country’s state utility Vietnam Electricity (EVN), has signed deals with seven partners to sell some 2.9Mt of fly ash from the Duyen Hai 1 and 3 thermal power plants in the southern province of Tra Vinh. The fly ash will be used as additives in cement production, reported the Thoi Bao Kinh Doanh newspaper, citing Nguyen Hai H...
Dalmia Cement picks up Green Award 2016
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd, Dalmiapuram, has won the Green Award-2016 from Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board for the second time. The industry is the only cement plant and one among the three organisations in the State to be bestowed with the honour. Thirty-three organisations were short-listed, based on scrutiny of questionnaires from several participating units, this year. RA Krishnaku...
Cemex fleet first to achieve carbon neutral certification in Colombia
Cemex announced that it has received de Sello Verde de Verdad (True Green Label), granted by Colombian company Ecologic SAS, and the certification of neutralisation of transport-related GHG emissions in Colombia, issued by the Colombian Institute of Technical Standards and Certification (ICONTEC Internacional). This certification makes the cement producer the first company in the country with ...
Indonesia’s Negeri Sembilan Cement agrees WHR JV with Tenega Nasional
Negeri Sembilan Cement Industries Sdn Bhd (NSCI), owned by Cement Industries Malaysia Bhd, has agreed with Indonesian utility giant Tenega Nasional Bhd (TNB) to a joint venture that would see waste heat from the cement plants used in the generation of electricity. TNB subsidiary TNB Repair and Maintenance Sdn Bhd will develop, operate and raise financing for the waste heat recovery (WHR) pl...
German cement industry invests considerably in environmental protection
German cement producers further invested in plant optimisation in 2016, keepign them in a leading role worldwide in terms of environmental compatibility, according to the German cement association, VDZ. The sector has taken action to reduce NOx emissions through plant optimisaiton as well as extensive research to test innovative exhaust gas cleaning technology under the particular condition...
Vikram Cement recognised with water management award
UltraTech Cement Ltd (UTCL) has been recognised at the Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII) National Awards for Excellence in Water Management 2017. Vikram Cement Works, an integrated cement manufacturing unit of UTCL, won the Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII) National Awards for Excellence in Water Management 2017 in the ‘outside the fence’ category. This award is a recognition f...
European Parliament releases waste-to-energy study
On 25 September 2017, the European Parliament Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) panel published a study entitled “Towards a circular economy-Waste management in the EU” to examines the role of waste management in the context of a circular economy transition and current state of policy development. The report provides an overview of the state-of-play of incineration and other wa...
Petition bill submitted against Lafarge Brooksfield's tyre burning project
Nova Scotia's opposition New Democrats have presented a petition and a bill in the legislature calling on the Liberal government to ban tyre burning in the province. The party held a news conference with opponents of the government's July decision to approve a one-year pilot project allowing Lafarge Canada to burn tyres at the Brookfield cement plant. NDP environment critic Lenore Zann said h...
China will impose new environmental tax from 1 January 2018
Businesses in China are being urged to prepare themselves for a new environmental tax for the start of next year. China will abandon its current system under which polluters are charged locally in favour of the nationwide environmental protection levy to reduce air, soil and water contamination, reports South China Morning Post. The new regime will see firms that cause pollution taxed under a...