Cement News tagged: Environmental
Starlinger releases its first sustainability report
Starlinger, the Vienna-based machine manufacturer and woven plastic bag producer, has presented the first sustainability report for the year 2022. It provides information about the CSR policy that Starlinger has included in its corporate strategy, and measures the company has already implemented. Clarissa Graf has been responsible for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Starling...
Carbon Clean to expand North American presence
Carbon Clean, a leading global carbon capture solutions business, has announced a significant expansion in North America to meet booming demand for its carbon capture technology. The company has opened its US headquarters in Houston, Texas and will double its US headcount to meet demand for CycloneCC, its fully modular technology, in what is expected to become its biggest market. The Inf...
Cockburn Cement fined for odour breaches
Cockburn Cement Ltd (CCL) has been fined AUD290,000 (US$191,000) for odour breaches from its Munster cement plant, according to the Government of Western Australia. The company was charged with six counts of causing unreasonable odour between January and April 2019, contravening the Environmental Protection Act 1986. The company pleaded not guilty to the charges. According to the witne...
Progressive Planet launches PozGlass pilot plant
Canada-based Progressive Planet, a CleanTech and manufacturing company specialising in the creation of planet-friendly products, has announced that it will be building a pilot plant to produce up to 3200tpa of PozGlass™ 100G, a CleanTech low carbon cement that can dramatically reduce the cement industry’s carbon footprint. Made from 100 per cent post-consumer glass, PozGlass replaces carb...
Geminor HUB supplying Aalborg Cement has record year
Geminor's waste treatment HUB in Aalborg, Denmark, processed 99,538t of waste in 2022. Last year, the waste treated in the Aalborg HUB went to 10 different off-takers, the biggest being the Aalborg Portland cement factory which receives tailor-made SRF as secondary fuel. The Aalborg HUB was actually closed down in 2019 due to low activity but was soon after moved to a bigger location a...
Holcim Switzerland start deliveries with Hugelshofer Logistik electric truck
A fully-electric truck from Hugelshofer Logistik AG is supplementing Holcim Switzerland’s fleet of electric vehicles and delivering cement quietly and without CO 2 emissions to concrete plants in Thurgau. Electric mobility is an important step for Holcim Switzerland in the development of its sustainable transport solutions. “Two years ago, Holcim was one of the first building material...
Lafarge Canada fined for dust pollution
Lafarge Canada Inc has been fined CAD$200,000 (US$145,395) for breaching the Environmental Protection Act, reports The Intelligencer. In October 2019 clinker dust from the company’s Highway 33 cement plant in Loyalist, Ontario, was blown onto cars, homes and lawns in Bath, a village lying 3km away from the plant. An investigation into the incident, led by the Ministry of Environment, r...
Heidelberg Materials at White House decarbonisation roundtable
Heidelberg Materials was invited by the White House to join a wide range of industrial sector executives and labour leaders for a productive roundtable conversation to discuss innovation and ways to accelerate industrial decarbonisation on 3 March. The meeting centred around ways that the US administration can support both private and public investments in reducing carbon emissions while...
Vassiliko Cement to build new alternative fuel storage site
The Environment Service has given the go ahead for a designated new alternative fuels storage site a year after a fire destroyed Vassiliko Cement plant’s original storage yard. The new site will be in Larnaca district’s Tochni, about halfway between the cities of Larnaca and Limassol, with the designated fenced site situated within an industrial zone, Philenews reports. The block ...
Carbon Upcycling and A3&Co® sign strategic partnership
Carbon Upcycling has signed a strategic partnership with A 3 &Co ® to support Carbon Upcycling’s engineering and project delivery. The partnership sets the foundation for Carbon Upcycling and A 3 &Co ® to pave the future of low-carbon concrete and the development of a circular economy. The partnership comes at a critical moment as Carbon Upcycling expands its operati...
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd takes delivery of first LNG trucks
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd (DCBL), subsidiary of Dalmia Bharat Ltd (DBL), has deployed its first fleet of LNG trucks. DCBL has tied up with GreenLine Logistics (Green Planet Logistics Pvt Ltd), India’s first and only LNG-fuelled heavy trucking logistics company, for this significant initiative towards building a ‘green’ supply chain with an initial order of 35 trucks. The first batc...
Alamo Cement completes Texas solar power system
Alamo Cement has announced completion of its new solar power system in San Antonio, Texas, advancing the company’s commitment to reduce carbon emissions and align itself with the cement industry’s goal of reaching carbon neutrality. The company has made a significant investment in this renewable power project, which has the capacity to generate up to 17,800MWh per year. The 45-acre solar ...
Construction of Catch4climate's Mergelstetten CCUS project begins
The Catch4climate project , which involves various international producers together with Buzzi Unicem has begun. Work started in February 2023 on the construction of a research and development plant for the capture of CO 2 in Mergelstetten , Germany, at the Schwenk Zement cement plant. The plant, of which construction and operation will involve over EUR120m, will use the pure-oxyf...
Rohrdorfer starts CO2 capture plant
ANDRITZ partner Rohrdorfer has started up Germany's first amine-based CO 2 capture plant for cement plants at its main site in Upper Bavaria. This technology developed by ANDRITZ will prospectively make a considerable contribution to CO 2 reduction and thus to a sustainable circular economy. The special separation process recovers CO 2 as a basic material for a large number of valuable in...
CEMEX extends VeryNile plastic waste initiative
The CEMEX and VeryNile initiative have expanded the scope of the partnership to reach the CEMEX Egypt's hometown of Assiut. This comes after the success achieved by their partnership in cleaning the Nile River from plastic waste in Cairo and Giza governorates. The expansion process included contracting a group from the local fishing community from Assiut who collected four loaded trucks of ...
FLSmidth achieves waste heat bypass record at Cement Panam
Cement Panam ’s greenfield cement plant in the Dominican Republic set a new record for FLSmidth for the 300m distance covered for a waste heat bypass system from the clinker cooler to the finish mill. FLSmidth used modelling to engineer a suitable system for such a long waste heat recovery system. “We had to main concerns: heat loss and velocity,” explains Srdan Nisic, FLSmidth’s sales ma...