Cement News tagged: Environmental
Geocycle and Lafarge Canada to divert waste to Brookfield plant
Driven by its Strategy 2025 ‘Accelerating Green Growth’, Geocycle Canada and Lafarge Canada have been paving the way to use low-carbon alternative fuels to divert household, commercial, and construction and demolition wastes away from landfills. The project will significantly increase the plant’s capacities to pre-process plastics and high biogenic waste materials (banned from landfills i...
Holcim invests in Coomtech
Holcim invests in Coomtech, a cleantech start-up that offers an innovative low-emission kinetic drying technology for raw materials. Coomtech's technology combines low-carbon and circular benefits to emits up to 75 per cent less CO 2 than traditional drying methods, enabling the use of recycled materials in cement and concrete that would otherwise require a high amount of energy to dry. The...
Fletcher Building secures pond ash supply
Fletcher Building has teamed up with Genesis to use ash from Huntly Power Station as an alternative raw material in cement. This includes up to 20,000t of pond ash, also known as bottom ash, which is produced each year after coal is used to generate power. The pond ash is extracted from existing settling ponds and used in the manufacturing process at Golden Bay Cement as a raw materia...
Cementos Avellaneda starts Olavarría wind farm
Cementos Avellaneda ( Cementos Molins group ) has announced that it has starting the PECASA wind farm project together with YPF LUZ. This wind farm will supply sustainable energy to the Olavarría cement plant, contributing to a cleaner and greener future. This is an important step in the cement producer’s mission to promote renewable energy and sustainable development, which adds to...
Irish Cement named as one of biggest polluters
Irish Cement Ltd (part of CRH ) has been named among Ireland’s biggest climate polluters, according to a report in the Irish Independent. The cement producer joins other household brands, such as Ryanair and Pfizer, with the latest records showing that a group of just 100 factories, power plants and airlines emitted around 25Mt of CO 2 in Ireland in 2022. Irish Cement currently runs th...
Canada's Cement Association releases Concrete Zero plan
The Cement Association of Canada (CAC), together with its members and partners in the concrete sector, has released Concrete Zero, an Action Plan to ensure Canada’s cement and concrete industry achieves its carbon emissions reduction goals by making cement net-zero by 2050. The Concrete Zero Action plan shows that greater emissions reductions are possible, claims CAC. Relying on developed ...
Lafarge Africa launches its Ewekoro bagging plant
Lafarge Africa ( Holcim group ) has launched a bag manufacturing plant in Ewekoro , Nigeria. The plant features cutting-edge and state-of-the-art machinery and equipment, the first of its kind in the country. With an installed capacity of 105m bags, of which 8.8m will be produced monthly, the plant is designed to handle large-scale production of bags in a safe and efficient manner. In ...
Taiwan Cement Group plans green bond
Taiwan Cement Group is planning to issue green bonds through its subsidiary in Europe, marking the first time the group has sold such bonds to finance environmentally-friendly projects. In a statement to the Taiwan Stock Exchange, Taiwan Cement Co (TCC) said its energy storage subsidiary NHOA SA in Italy will sell convertible green bonds with a maturity of five years, aiming to raise EUR25...
ASTM proposes new standards for SCMs
ASTM International’s concrete and concrete aggregates committee (C09) is developing a proposed standard specification for a broad range of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) in the USA. According to ASTM International member Larry Sutter, this performance specification (WK70466) will ease the adoption of new materials used for SCMs as established sources become less available. “For...
Carbon Upcycling receives SCM project investment funds
Carbon Upcycling and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), funded by the US Department of Energy, has been awarded international funding to advance carbon utilisation technology in the cement and concrete industry. The CAD$600,000 (US$442,102) investment will support the development of a framework that will assess the suitability of various alternative feedstocks to produce sup...
India focusses on net zero concrete
Representatives of more than 75 renowned academic institutions and businesses from across the world have gathered in New Delhi, in India, to participate in the Innovandi Global Cement and Concrete Research Network (GCCRN) Spring Week. They are meeting to help drive critical research and innovation towards decarbonisation of concrete. The GCCRN brings together more than 450 researchers and ...
UltraTech Cement transports phosphogypsum on inland waterways
A 57,000t consignment of phosphogypsum has been transported in a bulk cargo carrier from Paradeep port in Odisha and reached the jetty of UltraTech Cement’s ( Aditya Birla Group ) integrated cement plant, Gujarat Cement Works (GCW), in Kovaya, Amreli district, Gujarat, on 26 April 2023. Mr KC Jhanwar, UltraTech Cement Ltd 's managing director, said, “The cement industry plays a pivotal r...
Cementa prepares groundwork for 2030 electricity supply at Slite plant
Cementa ( Heidelberg Materials ) is working purposefully in three areas to enable the transition to its carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at its Slite plant by 2030. The plant will need significantly more electricity, which will place great demands on the company as part of Gotland's electricity system as well as on the collaborations on which Cementa depend. Cementa is wo...
Cem'In'EU launches FusioVrac cement
Cem'In'EU 's Rhône cement plant, in Portes-lès-Valence, has launched FusioVrac cement with a CO 2 footprint 18 per cent less than conventional cement. FusioVrac is a low-carbon cement that contains less clinker, which is partly replaced by pozzolan, a natural substitute from volcanic rocks in the nearby region. The new cement offers " the same performance, respecting the s...
Trials begin on graphene-enhanced green cement
Trials on graphene-enhanced green cement are due to begin in June this year, lead by a consortium including First Graphene Ltd, Breedon Cement Ltd , Morgan Sindall Construction and The University of Manchester. The consortium first received funding for its research in February 2022 when its was awarded GBP190,034 (US$235,585) by the UK government’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. Since the...
Viking CCS project targets UK cement emissions
Harbour Energy and BP have entered into an agreement to develop the Viking carbon capture transportation and storage project near the heavily industrialised Humber region in the UK. According to BP, the Viking CCS project has the potential to meet one third of the UK government’s target to capture and store up to 30Mta of CO 2 by 2030 from the local steelmaking, refining, chemicals and cement...