International Cement Review articles tagged under : Case Studies

12 March 2024

Gearing up for Geseke GeZero

Under the GeZero project at its Geseke cement plant in Germany, Heidelberg Materials envisions establishing the first inland cement plant featuring a “first of its kind” full-chain carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility. Spanning from source to sink, the company outlines the scale, scope and set-up of the project, as well as the oxyfuel technology process at its core. By Tolga Timirci and T...

04 March 2024

Mannok’s greater fuel flexibility

As a key step in the decarbonisation of its cement plant operations, Ireland-based Mannok Cement has installed a FUELFLEX® Pyrolyzer combustion system which enables the producer to burn up to 100 per cent alternative...

20 February 2024

Grey to white in Algeria

Retrofitting cement plants can give provide a new lease of life, as shown by the conversion of grey to white cement production at Biskria Cement Co, Algeria. CBMI was awarded the contract and explains some of the key...

12 February 2024

Solar power for Avellaneda

Argentine cement producer Cementos Avellaneda recently inaugurated its 22MW La Calera Solar Park in San Luis, Argentina. The project will provide the company with over half of its electrical power requirement at its ...

Edmonton’s edge: CCUS pilot readies for testing 09 January 2024

Edmonton’s edge: CCUS pilot readies for testing

With several CCUS projects in various stages of development, the global cement industry is looking to use CCUS as a key part of its decarbonisation efforts. At Heidelberg Materials’ plant in Edmonton, Canada, the com...

24 July 2023

Pipe conveying in Portugal

Pipe conveyors offer several advantages compared to conventional conveyors, including the ability to easily overcome obstacles with curves, no need for transfer points, the absence of material spillage and very limit...

Cam Pha Cement: descending dragon 26 June 2023

Cam Pha Cement: descending dragon

To arrive at Cam Pha Cement’s (CPC) plant in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam, you must first pass through the UNESCO world heritage site of Halong Bay – or literally ‘where the dragon descends to the sea’ – whose drama...

30 May 2023

New capacity for new cement

Titan America LLC has fully converted its cement production to low-carbon Type IL limestone cement. To enable this change the company has opened and expanded several terminals and additional facilities are also under...

17 April 2023

Right cooler at the right time

Phoenix Cement’s plant in Beckum, Germany, has benefitted from a year’s worth of operational experience with thyssenkrupp’s new polytrack eco clinker cooler. The first installation of its kind, the cooler has proven ...

17 January 2023

Lucky turns to the sun

Lucky Cement is looking forward to a new solar PV plant with energy storage to improve the efficiency and sustainability of energy generation at its Pezu plant in Pakistan. The combined energy assets will not only de...

09 January 2023

Sinoma’s Latin American debut

Loma Negra’s L’Amali Line II project in Argentina is the first EPC project contracted by Sinoma Overseas Development Co Ltd (a subsidiary of CNBM) in South America. Involving the successful integration of internation...

14 November 2022

Taking a different route

A modal shift in the transport of raw materials and finished product alike can bring significant benefits in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions for cement producers. CEMEX explains how and why it is in part l...

13 September 2022

A plant for the future

Cementos Molins Industrial’s Sant Vicenç dels Horts plant, which can be visited during this year’s Cemtech Europe conference and exhibition on 2-5 October in Barcelona, has seen significant investment into sustainabi...

09 August 2022

Argos triples port capacity

Cementos Argos recently inaugurated a second port terminal in Cartagena, Colombia. The project is part of the company’s wider port expansion project and represents the Latin American cement producer’s ambitions to in...

28 June 2022

Suez Cement to build Egypt’s first cement WHR

Egypt-based Suez Cement is preparing to commission the country’s first waste heat recovery (WHR) facility in a cement plant by 2023. The project aims to reduce the plant’s carbon emissions by approximately 40,000tpa....

09 May 2022

Inside Lehigh Hanson’s Mitchell K4 project

Lehigh Hanson’s Mitchell K4 project represents one of the largest and most significant investments in new capacity for parent company HeidelbergCement. As a leading North American cement producer, Lehigh Hanson’s inv...