Cement News tagged: Environmental

DG Khan waste heat project registered with UNFCCC

16 February 2012, Published under Cement News

Pakistan's DG Khan Cement’s waste heat recovery project, has been registered with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for carbon credit. The project, situated at Dera Ghazi Khan, is generating 10.4MW of electricity, according to a filing with the Pakistan Stock Exchange yesterday.

Pakistan: DG Khan Cement receives UN carbon credits

15 February 2012, Published under Cement News

DG Khan Cement Company is to receive CO2 credits from the UN for setting up its new waste heat recovery project.  “The Waste Heat Recovery Project of the company situated at Dera Ghazi Khan, generating 10.4MW of electricity has been successfully registered with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for carbon credit,” said DG Khan Cement. The Pakistani cement pr...

USA: Tehachapi cement plant has one of nation's highest mercury emission levels

15 February 2012, Published under Cement News

The Environmental Protection Agency has rated Lehigh Southwest Cement plant’s mercury emissions as the second highest in the USA. The Lehigh Tehachapi plant produced 872lb of mercury in 2010, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory data – the most of any cement plant in California and the second highest among all cement plants in the United States. Over...

USA: Lehigh proposes land swap

14 February 2012, Published under Cement News

Under a proposal with Lehigh Southwest Cement Co, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest around Lake Shasta could grow by about 246 acres. Lehigh Southwest Cement wants to swap about 78 acres of Forest Service land near its Mountain Gate plant for about 246 acres it owns near the McCloud arm of Lake Shasta. Jim Ellison, plant manager at Lehigh, said his company has been using the 78 acres fo...

Suez Cement bag filter project completed, Egypt

Suez Cement bag filter project completed, Egypt

09 February 2012, Published under Cement News

Egypt’s Head of Environmental Affairs, Eng. Hossam Hegazy, accompanied by a number of senior officials from his ministry visited on Tuesday, February 7th, 2012, Tourah Portland Cement Company (TPCC), a subsidiary of Suez Cement group of Companies (SCGC) to mark the completion of the project to replace the electrostatic filters in line eight with bag house filters. The project is funded part...

China considers tougher emission rules for cement producers

02 February 2012, Published under Cement News

China's environment ministry is considering launching stricter rules regarding NOx emissions from cement plants, which, if implemented, could sharply affect the net profits of local producers. Chinese Vice Minister of Environment Protection, Zhang Lihjun, last month said during a visit to Anhui Conch, that he ministry plans to introduce stricter rules, the Shanghai-based daily reported. ...

Ash Improvement Technology and Sika alliance

Ash Improvement Technology and Sika alliance

02 February 2012, Published under Cement News

Ash Improvement Technology Inc (AIT) and Sika AG of Switzerland announced today that they entered a Strategic Alliance to develop products to help reduce the CO2 emissions related to the production of cement. As part of the agreement, Sika has also made an investment to take an equity stake in AIT. "Construction markets worldwide are demanding innovation for more environmentally sustainable c...

Cemex waste fuel agreement, Mexico

30 January 2012, Published under Cement News

Cemex has been using waste from Mexico city as part of its production process since last November. The company ships between 500tpd and 600tpd, a figure that could rise to 1000t soon, to feed Cemex's plants in the nearby city of Puebla, 150km east of the capital.   The agreement between the Federal District (FD) city officials and Cemex came after the closure of the Bordo Poniente waste sit...

WBCSD – quarry rehabilitation guidelines released

27 January 2012, Published under Cement News

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has released Guidelines on Quarry Rehabilitation which provides practical guidance for managing the impacts of quarrying activities and ensuring that environments are properly revitalized. Led by the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI), the project was carried out by a group of member companies and is based on methods that they ...

Holcim files lawsuit over EUA theft, Romania

27 January 2012, Published under Cement News

Holcim has filed a lawsuit against Romania’s carbon registry for damages relating to EUR1m allowances that were stolen from the company in a hacking attack in 2010, Reuters reports. The company said it had filed a EUR1m claim in November 2011m in time to beat a one-year deadline imposed by Romanian law. "We've filed a claim with Romania's national environmental protection agency," a spokesman...

Dyckerhoff Ukraine in alternative fuels initiative

27 January 2012, Published under Cement News

Dyckerhoff Ukraine intends to use briquettes of household fuel as waste at its Volyn Tsement plant in Zdolbuniv, Rivne region. Ukrainian News reported the company’s head of ecology, Roman Naumenko, as saying that the alternative fuels usage will start by September this year at a cost of EUR2.6m. The waste will be sorted at a waste processing plant in Rivne and be delivered by trucks to the ...

St Marys Cement to pilot new CO2 absorption system

25 January 2012, Published under Cement News

Toronto-based Pond Biofuels is piloting a new CO2 absorption system at St Marys Cement, Canada. The new equipment will cut greenhouse gases by absorbing dirty stack emissions to grow algae which can subsequently be used in oil production, converted into biodiesel and bioplastics or act as a renewable coal substitute. “Algal biomass can produce the same amount of energy as the equivalent ...

Lehigh quarry development discussions, USA

23 January 2012, Published under Cement News

Residents of New Windsor, Maryland, USA, are hoping that a public hearing will be granted by the US Army Corps of Engineers on a permit application by Lehigh Cement Co in relation to the development of its New Windsor quarry. The Corps first held a formal public comment period last year, but residents have continued to comment on the impact the development could have on streams and wetlands...

India: NCP demands closure of illegal cement units

09 January 2012, Published under Cement News

India's opposition, National Congress Party, today demanded the government should stop all cement plants operating illegally in Jaintia Hills district

Essroc to improve environmental protection measures

03 January 2012, Published under Cement News

The Department of Justice and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Essroc

Philippine cement sector recognised

03 January 2012, Published under Cement News

In recognition awards outstanding practices in sustainable development, the Federation of Philippine Industries, FPI, has