International Cement Review articles tagged under : Case Studies

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 company is developing the world’s first industrial full-scale CCUS unit for the cement sector. By Corwyn Bruce and David Perkins, Heidelberg Materials North America, USA. Heide...

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...

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...

Right cooler at the right time 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...

Sinoma’s Latin American debut 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...

25 April 2022

Calciner NOx reduction and AF use

Computational modelling has helped Cyprus-based Vassiliko Cement Works to reduce NOx emissions in the calciner while increasing the use of alternative fuels, supporting the company’s drive to produce cement in a sust...

12 April 2022

Bringing down temperature

Vietnam’s tropical climate, with its high humidity, places extra challenges on FICO-YTL’s grinding plant operations in Tay Ninh, affecting the performance of the final product. However, following an upgrade the cemen...

28 March 2022

Optimising Salonit Anhovo’s crushing process

When Slovenia-based producer Salonit Anhovo looked to optimise its primary crushing process, thyssenkrupp Cement Technologies implemented a modern, alternative system into an existing building. The new double-shaft h...

25 January 2022

Powering up Pecém

In July 2021 Votorantim Cimentos announced the start of a new line at its grinding plant in Pecém, Brazil. The 0.8Mta expansion aims to produce cement in a more environmentally friendly way, in accordance with the co...