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EPA recognises ENERGY STAR cement plants

20 March 2024, Published under Cement News

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognised 103 manufacturing plants that earned the agency’s ENERGY STAR certification in 2023, an accolade reserved for manufacturing plants in the top 25 per cent in terms of energy efficiency in their sector. Of the 11 cement plants receiving this year's accolade, Ash Grove ’s Seattle plant was recognised for its efforts to save energy by increasing the amount of limestone in its Portland limestone cement. Meanwhile, GCC ’s Rapid Ci...

MDG wins bucket elevator order for Paulden plant

20 October 2022, Published under Cement News

Following the installation of Drake Cemen t’s new vertical roller mill (VRM) for milling cement slag and raw material grinding, MDG America was selected to supply the plant with four high-quality chain bucket elevators to feed the mill section. The bucket elevators will operate from 26-362tph of material. MDG bucket elevators 1 and 2 moving material for grinding at Drake Cement Plan MDG has supplied a variety of bulk handling equipment for the the plant located in Paulden ,...

Drake Cement inaugurates new finish mill

24 May 2022, Published under Cement News

Ricardo Rizo Patrón, chairman of Skanon, the Board of Directors of Skanon Investments and Skanon CEO, Enrique Rozas, visited the Drake Cement plant on 11 May to inauguration the new finish mill at Drake Cement, Paulden , Arizona, USA. With this new project, Drake Cement and Materials continues to expand, reduce its environmental footprint and improve sustainability while offering high-quality products to its customers. The new mill is a vertical roller mill and the draft environmental re...

United States: Drake Cement’s Paulden plant seeking to expand clinker production

03 January 2017, Published under Cement News

Drake Cement has submitted an application to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to increase clinker production at its Paulden plant from 660,000tpa to 726,000tpa. The plant’s current permit runs until September 2017. A public hearing will be held on the decision to grant Drake’s application on 19 January 2017. Local newspaper the Daily Courier reports that the Paulden plant has been running co-firing trials in a bid to reduce its dependence on coal. These trials are examin...