Cement News tagged: Environmental
India Shree Cement gets `green’ award
Shree Cement, an ISO 14001 company, aiming at 20Mta capacity by 2012 has bagged the Golden Peacock Environment Management Award f
Cement works fuel trial starts, UK
Lafarge Cement’s Cauldon Works has started trialing the use of recovered fuel oil.
Preliminary hearing for cement plant tyre-burning plan, Canada
According to an article in The Kingston Whig-Standard, a date has been set by the tribunal that will hold an independent hearing to challenge Lafarge’s plan to burn tyres at its plant west of K
Second competition of the Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction launches
The second competition of the Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction was launched at the first annual symposium Greening and Densifying - How to envision sustainable cities.
Magnetic Resonance; Research from University of Surrey
Scientists discuss in "A unilateral NMR magnet for sub-structure analysis in the built environment: the Surface GARField"
Cement maker to save the whale shark
Cemex is set to infuse an initial funding of P1.44m to bankroll conservation efforts for the whale sharks of Donsol,
US looks to Canadian carbon rules
Cement makers in the United States are pointing to carbon "intensity" standards recently announced by Canadian officials as a potentially preferable alternative to strict greenhouse gas
China Targets Big Polluters To Reduce Greenhouse Gas
Funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a technological transformation programme is helping 100 rural enterprises save China
Oklahoma Inventors develop Cementing composition
Craig W. Roddy, Ricky L. Covington and Jiten Chatterji, all from Duncan, Okla., have developed cementing compositions that comprise cement kiln dust.
Independent panel for new cement plant
Emotions are running high in North Otago, New Zealand as debate about a proposal to build a NZ$200 million cement plant near Oamaru gathers momentum.
Carib Cement seeks tax credit to burn used tyres
Caribbean Cement Company (CCL) has proposed that it be granted a tax credit as quid pro quo for using its kiln to rid the country of used tyres, a move that the firm says will shave six per cent off i
Climate change and India
India’s planners find themselves in a fix in the wake of the fourth assessment report of the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change. On the one hand, the economy is growing at a robust 9 p
Cement in high demand
The problem of the shortage of building materials in Poland may become acute in the light of the investment which will be made in connection to Euro 2012.
India: stop unloading cement in goods shed
Aundh Road-based Laboni Towers Co-operative Housing Society Ltd has threatened legal action if the Central Railways (CR) declined to stop unloading cement at the Khadki goods shed.
Cement at construction sites - hexavalent inspection
Beginning immediately, at all US construction sites where Portland cement is being used, OSHA will specifically determine whether employers are in compliance
Emission rules to get tougher
The Indian cement industry will now have to follow stringent guidelines for the prevention and control of harmful emissions from factories.