Cement News tagged: Environmental
Cement Australia signs Central Queensland decarbonisation cooperation agreement
Cement Australia is among the six partners to sign the Central Queensland Statement of Cooperation (SoC). The agreement has been formed to provide opportunities for businesses in the area to decarbonise their supply chains and for those wanting to invest directly in renewable energy sources. The SoC sets out the commitment of the State and Central Queensland stakeholders to work towards ...
Hatschek plant to combust CO2-reduced fuels
Rohrdorfer’s Hatschek cement plant will have its rotary kiln shut down for repair work between 2 January - 12 February 2023. In addition to the annual routine maintenance at the German plant and the renewal of the refractory kiln lining, numerous improvement measures will be carried out again this year. Rohrdorfer Group -owned Südbayerisches Portland-Zementwerk Gebr Wiesböck & Co G...
Japan Energy Fund invests in Svante CCUS technology
Japan Energy Fund has invested in Svante through its Decarbonised Tech Fund managed by Japan Energy Capital. Canadian-based Svante was founded with the goal to make carbon capture solutions for hard-to-abate industries. It offers non-intrusive end-of-the-pipe solutions for existing industrial infrastructure to deliver pipeline-ready CO 2 for safe storage at the gigatonne scale. This U...
Holcim hosts Decarbonisation Accelerator Demo Days
3D-printed custom formwork and AI-powered supply chain software were among the new technologies on display during the annual Holcim Accelerator Demo Days at Lyons, France. Nine start-ups from seven countries came together to explore breakthrough solutions to reduce carbon emissions at production, material, design and construction level. During the Demo Days event, the start-ups pitched th...
Lafarge Cement fully converts Brookfield Cement Plant to OneCem
Lafarge Canada has announced the full transformation of its Brookfield Cement Plant in Nova Scotia to a greener portfolio. From now on, the plant will only produce reduced carbon Portland limestone cement - branded as OneCem - the company’s eco-efficient alternative. Brookfield is Lafarge’s third cement plant to be converted in 2022 and the first Atlantic market plant to convert - the othe...
Hanson awards contract for CCS plant at Padeswood
UK-based Hanson , part of Heidelberg Materials , has awarded a contract to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering to deliver the preliminary front-end engineering design for a CO 2 capture plant at Hanson’s Padeswood cement plant in Flintshire, north Wales. Once operational it will capture 800,000t of CO 2 and store it in spent gas fields off the coast of northwest England. According...
Holcim receives Double 'A' ranking for climate and water leadership
CDP has recognised Holcim’s sustainability leadership with a double “A” ranking for climate and water management. Holcim is one of 15 companies in Europe and the first in its sector to achieve a double ‘A’ CDP score, out of 15,000 companies scored globally. Maxfield Weiss, executive director, CDP Europe: “CDP saw nearly 20,000 companies disclose environmental data this year, including...
Siam Cement Group invests THB100bn in environmental performance
Siam Cement Group has laid out its investment plans for the next five years, showing a strong emphasis on environmental issues and moving towards establishing circular economies. The company announced that it will invest THB100bn (US$2.89bn) through the end of 2027 in areas such as renewable energy, while also continuing efforts to decarbonise its main building materials and chemicals bus...
Synhelion receives new funding for solar fuel technology
Solar fuel specialist Synhelion has raised CHF22m (US$23.7m) in another successful financing round. The funds were primarily provided by existing investors, including CEMEX and CEMEX Ventures, CEMEX’s corporate venture capital and open innovation unit, as well as selected new strategic investors. The proceeds of the investment round will accelerate Synhelion’s growth and support the scaling ...
Dangote Cement receives CDP rating upgrade
Dangote Cement Plc has had its CDP rating raised from B- to B in recognition of the cement producer’s commitment to climate change. The rating upgrade indicates that Dangote Cement has addressed the environmental impact of its business and ensures good environmental management. This upgrade demonstrates the continued efforts made by the company to increase its levels of non-financial disclos...
Teesside University to develop Mevocrete project
Academics from the University are collaborating with industry partners on a GBP7.6m (US$9.24m) project entitled ‘Mevocrete’, aiming to develop a new form of concrete made from the by-products of the steel and chemical industries. Teesside University has won funding from Innovate UK to work with Material Evolution to help the business scale up its technology to create a full scale on-site faci...
CEMEX announces first Circularity Center
CEMEX has announced the launch in Colombia of its first Circularity Center worldwide. The site is located south of Bogotá in an old quarry that has been restored recently and will become a model for other CEMEX operations. The 300ha property, located in the Tunjuelo sector, was used for more than 70 years as a source of building materials for the growth of Bogotá. By having excavations mo...
Coolbrook achieves first demonstration of its RotoDynamic Technology
Coolbrook has conducted the first live pilot of its RotoDynamic Technology to electrify high-temperature industrial processes. Hosted at the Brightlands Chemlot Campus in Gelleen, The Netherlands, on 12 December 2022, the demonstration marked the technology’s debut activation in an industrially relevant environment setting the scene. The large-scale pilot plant will demonstrate the perfo...
EU reaches deal on carbon border tariff
Following a night of negotiations, the European Union came to a political deal in the early hours of this morning to impose a carbon dioxide emissions tariff on polluting goods, including cement, in a scheme described as a world-first to support European industries on their decarbonisation journey. According to Reuters, negotiators from EU countries and the European Parliament reached a dea...
Adani Cement launches Geoclean waste management solution
Adani Cement has launched its new waste management initiative, Geoclean, to reduce emissions from its cement production processes. Built on the foundation of sustainability and circular economy, Geoclean offers innovative waste management solutions to the agricultural, industrial and public/municipal sectors. Through the co-processing of waste from these sectors, Geoclean ensures the recover...
AALBORG SOLID for civil engineering and infrastructure is launched
Aalborg Portland A/S ( Cementir ) launches a new type of cement that is particularly useful for civil engineering and infrastructure projects, according to the company. The new cement is called AALBORG SOLID, which is a nod to its extra good durability, states Aalborg Portland A/S. The cement is approved for use in all exposure classes, including environments such as high-moisture and ...