Cement News tagged under: Slovenia
Salonit Anhovo to become Alpacem Cement Slovenia20 July 2023, Published under Cement NewsSlovenia’s Salonit Anhovo is changing its name to Alpacem Cement Slovenia. The announcement was made following the company’s general meeting on 14 July 2023. “We have been considering changing the brand for several years, now we think the moment is right,” says Tomaž Vuk, company president. He added that there has been a trend in the cement industry for “brands to connect into larger entities” to provide additional security for customers and enable them to “cope with the new challenges... |
Salonit Anhovo expands solar power plant29 March 2023, Published under Cement NewsSlovenia-based cement producer, Salonit Anhovo , is expanding its rooftop solar power plant by 1.5MW. The installation on the roof of the company’s cement plant near Anhovo is already the largest of its kind in Slovenia at 2.2MW. Ljubljana-based Interenergo, a subsidiary of Austrian energy company Kelag, has been awarded the contract for the expansion. According to Balkan Green Energy News, the new panels will be fitted to all suitable roofs at the plant and gradually connected by the ... |
Christian Pfeiffer wins Slovenian ball mill project25 June 2021, Published under Cement NewsChristian Pfeiffer has won the contract to build an efficient ball mill circuit for limestone milling for a Slovenian client. The centrepiece of the plant will be a 3.2m (diameter) air stream ball mill with drying compartment and a high performance DSL separator. The commissioning of the plant is scheduled for the end of 2021. |
Salonit Anhovo restarts cement production06 May 2020, Published under Cement NewsSlovenian cement producer, Salonit Anhovo (Wietersdorfer Group) has resumed cement operations after 14-day shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic that caused reduced demand for its domestic market and exports to Italy. Production was suspended on 20 April and resumed on 4 May, as the company used the two-week break to carry out maintenance works, while continuing to make cement shipments to meet the needs of its clients during the period, Salonit Anhovo said. "Construction sites in Italy ha... |
Salonit Anhovo suspends production for two weeks23 April 2020, Published under Cement NewsSlovenia’s Salonit Anhovo has suspended production for two weeks from 20 April, due to demand in its Italian and Slovenian markets falling amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis. However, the company will continue to make cement shipments to its customers. "We expect that cement sales on the domestic market will stabilise again as the government is providing incentives for construction activities," said Dejan Zwitter, Salonit management board member. |
Cementarna Trbovlje seeks to resume operations21 October 2019, Published under Cement NewsSlovenia’s Cementarna Trbovlje (LafargeHolcim) has requested an environmental permit from the country’s authorities to resume cement grinding, storage and dispatch, according to Delo. The company lost its environmental permit in 2014 and halted operations in February 2015. As the plant is not expected to produce raw materials, it will buy them alongside cement additives. The producer was once the second-largest on the domestic market with a capacity of 0.52Mta. |
Salonit Anhovo recognised for AF usage13 July 2017, Published under Cement NewsThe Slovenian cement producer Salonit Anhovo has won a bronze EBRD Sustainable Energy Award for substantial progress in the use of non-hazardous solid recovered waste in the energy mix. The prize was presented to the company by Dariusz Prasek, EBRD Director, Environment and Sustainability Department, in the presence of Slovenia’s Minister of Economy, Zdravko Počivalšek and EBRD Head of Office in Ljubljana, Jolanta Gabriel. Salonit Anhovo is introducing a new system which will allow the pro... |
Slovenia: Salonit receives EUR15m EBRD loan14 December 2016, Published under Cement NewsThe European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced it is to provide a EUR15m loan to Salonit Anhovo to help it improve its operations. The funds will be used for energy and resource efficiency improvements and to restructure the company’s balance sheet. Salonit operates the largest cement works in Slovenia and alternative fuels account for 64 per cent of all fuel used for burning clinker. The EBRD loan, which will enable the installation of state-of-the-art equipmen... |
Slovenia: Lafarge to appeal Environment Agency decision10 June 2015, Published under Cement NewsLafargeCement plans to appeal the decision by Slovenia's Environment Agency which rejected its request for an integrated pollution prevention and control permit for its plant close to Trbovlje. The company said Tuesday its request was rejected on a formality and that it had had supplemented its filing with all requisite documents, including the project documentation and an environmental impact report. The statement comes a week after the Environment Agency rejected the application, ... |
Lafarge makes renewed bid for environmental permit, Slovenia07 May 2015, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Cement (Slovenia) confirmed Wednesday it had filed a new request for an environmental permit, though it would not comment on the details of its filing, the Slovenian Press Agency reports. The Environment Agency (ARSO) said Lafarge had made the filing at the end of April. The news comes less than two months after Lafarge suspended cement production at its plant in Trbovlje following orders from environmental inspectors. The Administrative Court revoked the environmental permits issue... |