Cement News tagged: Environmental
N+P's new Teeside Subcoal® plant will come on-stream in 3Q18
N+P is investing in a new Subcoal ® facility, which is being constructed in Teesside, UK. Once erected, this will be one of the most modern alternative fuel producing facilities in the world, according to the company. The input capacity of this new facility will be between 200-250,000tpa and will mainly consist of RDF streams with a high calorific value (CV). The output capacity is arou...
Bestway Cement bags five CSR awards
Bestway Cement has won five awards at the 10th Annual CSR Awards 2018 ceremony, held on 18 January in Islamabad, Pakistan. Bestway won the coveted awards by the National Forum for Environment and Health (NFEH) in the categories of Green Energy Initiatives, Community Development and Service, Education and Scholarship, Vocational Trainings and Sustainability Initiatives.
Tata Steel launches branded LD slag product for clinker making
Tata Steel has launched two new products, Tata Aggreto and Tata Nirman, India's first branded Linz-Donawitz (LD) slag products for applications in road, fly ash brick and clinker making. This is the first foray by any domestic steel major in branding processed steel slag. Speaking on the launch of the brands, T V Narendran, CEO & MD, Tata Steel, said: "We at Tata Steel are extremely happy to...
UK co-processing report receives MPA backing
The MPA has welcomed a report entitled 'From waste to resource productivity', which draws on evidence on waste from a range of industry, academic and government sources. Written by the former Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Mark Walport, and co-authored by Professor Ian Boyd, the Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the report ...
Lafarge Canada provides update on its two low-carbon fuel studies
Lafarge Canada’s kiln-fuel study in Alberta announced last week will not be the same as the tyre-burning pilot it has applied for at its Brookfield plant, reports The Chronicle Herald. The Alberta study will examine the environmental effects of introducing low-carbon fuels into its Exshaw plant and will not be completed until December 2019. "It's different processes, it won’t be the same ty...
Cembureau highlights role of cement industry in EU plastic waste disposal
Following the European Commission's initiative to develop a dedicated plastics strategy in a circular economy, published on 16 January, the European cement association, Cembureau, has highlighted the part played by the cement industry in reducing plastic waste. Apart from the importance of the need for a ban on landfill of recoverable and recyclable waste, the organisation urges policymaker...
UltraTech to take waste of railway workshop
UltraTech Cement has entered into an agreement with Golden Rock Railway Workshop based in Tamil Nadu, to take its waste for co-processing. The workshop expects to provide Ultratech with approximately 400t of zero-value non-hazardous waste over the next 3-6 months, according to The Hindu. "It is a win-win situation for both organisations as the zero-waste would serve as an alternative fuel i...
Republic Cement honoured with Quarry Operations Award
Republic Cement’s Teresa, Rizal, plant site has won the Presidential Mineral Industry Environmental Award-Platinum Achievement Award for Quarry Operations at the 64th Annual National Mine Safety and Environment Conference in Baguio City. This honour is given to companies that have exhibited outstanding levels of dedication, initiative and innovation in working toward environmental protection...
Lafarge starts low-carbon fuel research project
Lafarge Canada Inc, in cooperation with the University of Calgary, Queen’s University and Pembina Institute, is carrying out a million-dollar study on the environmental benefits of introducing lower-carbon fuels at its Exshaw Cement plant in Alberta, Canada. “Our estimates show each 20 per cent incremental replacement of natural gas at the Exshaw Cement Plant with lower carbon fuels could r...
Vicat enters EUR1.3m ARM venture with Serpol
Vicat and Serpol have entered a EUR1.3m joint venture, Terenvie, to treat oil-polluted soil and turn it to cleaned, mineral-rich land. This source of silica or clay can then be used as “a partial replacement (five per cent) of quarry materials, to save natural resources without impacting the quality of the cement, perfectly standardised,” said Stéphane Rutkowski, manager at Vicat. Earthwork...
Punjab cement industry to be regulated after three decades
The cement industry in Punjab, Pakistan, is being brought under regulatory control of the provincial government again, after 29 years. The decision to once again regulate the cement industry was taken during a marathon meeting of a committee, led by Chief Secretary Zahid Saeed, two days ago at the Civil Secretariat. Five provincial ministers, several administrative secretaries of the depart...
Loma Negra to buy 15MW of renewable energy from Genneia
Argentina’s Loma Negra will purchase 15MW of power from renewable energy company Genneia. The power will be generated by Genneia’s Rawson wind farm in Chubut province. Genneia has invested US$40m to expand the installed capacity of the wind farm by 24MW to 108.7MW. Most of the additional power will be bought by Loma Negra in a 20-year power supply agreement that will see the cement company l...
Vietnam to place 28 industrial facilities under special environmental control
The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) in Vietnam is planning to place 28 industrial production facilities across a range of sectors under special environmental control, reports Vietnam Net. MONRE has highlighted the cement industry as being one of the industrial production sectors at a high-risk level. The special control project will assess the efforts of fac...
Beijing's pollution control measures on industry result in improved air quality
Beijing experienced the best air quality in 2017 since pollution control measures were introduced five years ago, reports Free Malaysia Today. As part of these measures, the city closed six cement plants and completed upgrades in other industrial sectors. The average PM2.5 level, measuring particulate pollution, was 58μg/m 3 in 2017, a decrease of 20.5 per cent from the previous year. Th...
Bamburi Cement suspends plans to switch to solar power
Bamburi Cement has put its plans to switch to solar power on hold, reports Standard Digital. The high cost of the project has left the company to resort to other methods to reduce its rising energy expenses, such as using waste tyres for fuel. Bamburi Cement spends KES2.4bn (US$23.2m) annually on electricity to run its two plants in Mombasa and Nairobi. These figures make it the second-hig...
Cementos Argos sets up waste recycling company
Colombian cement producer Cementos Argos announced the creation of Granulados Reciclados de Colombia, a company that will recycle construction waste into aggregates, bases and subbases. The new firm will operate from Argos' Cota plant in Cundinamarca and will process up to 200tph of waste into wood, metal, plastic and stone as well as up to 1Mta of construction waste.