International Cement Review articles tagged under : Environment

30 June 2014

Go process: sun and cement

Cemex has been researching concentrated solar energy as a cement manufacturing method of the future.

03 June 2014

Project Slite 75%

HeidelbergCement's Slite cement plant works towards meeting an ambitious fuel substitution rate.

23 May 2014

CO2 - a catalyst for change

Joule examines the challenge of making captured CO2 into a fuel to help meet increasing energy demands. Could a SolarConverter be the way forward to revolutionise the cement industry?

16 May 2014

Mercury in Latin America

Kline Consulting discusses the implications of the 2013 Minimata Convention on Mercury.

MACT rule brings challenges 08 April 2014

MACT rule brings challenges

Cemtrex Inc and Durag Inc highlight industry needs and new technologies for emissions monitoring.

12 March 2014

China's new emission limits

Sintef assesses what the Ministry of Environmental Protection's laws mean for co-processing in China.

Alternative opportunities 05 February 2014

Alternative opportunities

Jebel Ali Sewage Treatment Plant offers local cement producers potential for a new fuel option.

27 January 2014

Reducing the carbon footprint

Suez Cement has made a commitment to alternative fuel usage at its Kattameya plant to keep one step ahead of the fuel supply problems in Egypt and to improve sustainable production.

13 January 2014

Integrated carbon capture

A new project to devise an integrated carbon capture system for a cement plant could be a very cost-effective way of reducing CO2 emissions.

10 December 2013

Responsible waste disposal

Lafarge Surma launched its Industrial Ecology approach to waste management in Bangladesh a year ago and is already seeing great benefits following the introduction of co-processing at its Chhatak plant.

15 April 2014

Cement plants of the future

Kline Consulting explains how reducing carbon emissions could impact the design of cement plants of the future.

24 October 2013

MSW co-processing in China

An inside look at how municipal solid waste is co-processed by China's leading cement companies.

09 October 2013

India's waste win-win

The Institute for Industrial Productivity assesses the use of RDF and hazardous waste in India's cement industry.

23 September 2013

Reporting value

ICR looks at the increasingly important role of integrated reporting in the cement industry.

17 September 2013

Microalgae: the big fix?

Cementos Argos turns to cultivating microalgae as a sustainable method to capture carbon

16 September 2013

Promising leaps

Taiwan Cement and the Industrial Technology Research Institute employ calcium-looping technology.