Cement News tagged under: Environmental
Cementir opens alternative energy facility, Turkey06 July 2010, Published under Cement NewsItalian-based cement producer Cementir has move towards diversification of its waste to energy business with the opening of a new facility in Kula, Turkey. This is the company’s first integrated site encompassing management, recycling and disposal techniques. The unit was inaugurated by Cementir chairman Francesco Caltagirone Jr yesterday. This ambitious project focuses on converting municipal and industrial waste into energy. The project is being piloted in Turkey, with other facilities s... |
Buzzi Unicem: a raw material called PLP06 July 2010, Published under Cement NewsBuzzi Unicem USA and Amazon Environmental, Inc, a national company involved in the recovery of latex paint, have forged an alliance which has led to the realization of a recycling center at Buzzi Unicem’s cement plant in Pryor, OK. From its inauguration in January 2008 up until now, the system installed by Amazon Environmental has transformed almost 6,150,000 liters of residual paint, by then unusable, into 10,000t of PLP (Processed Latex Pigment) to be used in the production of cement. PL... |
Roanoke makes plans to use biomass, USA05 July 2010, Published under Cement NewsRoanoke Cement Co. (RCC) is putting the necessary equipment in place so it can start trials to begin using “biomass” to help fire its cement kilns. The investment, which Plant Manager Kevin Baird called substantial, is the latest effort by RCC to reduce its overall “carbon footprint.” Baird said the company has set November as a target date to start trials to include biomass as a fuel for the kilns. Right now, the company is building the system to “dose” biomass material into the kiln sy... |
Disagreement over Padeswood investigation time-frame, UK04 July 2010, Published under Cement NewsCommunity leaders and Hanson Cement are at odds over how long an investigation into a factory should take. Health and environmental studies will be carried out into the Hanson Cement plant in Padeswood after a meeting between public health experts and community representatives. The firm wants to see the investigation completed as quickly as possible to confirm its belief that the factory is safe, but councillors have said that if the studies are rushed they will not receive the answers... |
Sri Lanka: call to develop waste management techniques04 July 2010, Published under Cement NewsWaste management techniques should be developed in Sri Lanka, the Central Environment Authority (CEA) provides assistance to improve the waste management said CEA Chairman Charitha Herath. He said that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) with Geo Cycle a member of the Holcim group to dispose of waste generated by the CDPLC is a positive step towards better waste management. The Bluechip companies and medium and small scale ventures have shown a health... |
China and India CO2 emissions rise04 July 2010, Published under Cement NewsA new report shows just how important greenhouse gas emissions from China and India are in the worldwide context. The two countries alone managed to offset the developed world’s recession-induced fall in carbon dioxide emissions last year. The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), a national policy institute, estimates that total CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement in the OECD and Russia collectively fell by 7 per cent last year. China and India’s emissions rose by 9... |
Open for entries: Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction02 July 2010, Published under Cement NewsThe 3rd International Holcim Awards competition for projects and visions in sustainable construction offers a total of US$2m in prize money and is open to: sustainable building and civil engineering works; landscape, urban design and infrastructure projects; and materials, products and construction technologies. Entries must be submitted online at http://www.holcimawards.org by March 23, 2011. In addition to construction projects at an advanced stage of design, the competition seeks vi... |
Lehigh to reduce mercury emissions, USA02 July 2010, Published under Cement NewsLehigh Permanente cement plant announced June 23 that it has installed equipment to reduce mercury emissions by 25 per cent. The move is in preparation for new federal emission standards that the Environmental Protection Agency plans to announce by August 3. The standards, which will set the nation’s first limits on mercury emissions from existing cement plant kilns, could require some facilities to cut mercury emissions by more than 80 per cent by August 2013. Lehigh officials are unsur... |
EPA Rejects Texas flexible air-quality permit authority01 July 2010, Published under Cement NewsThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday rejected air-quality permits for refiners and other industrial plants issued by Texas, saying they didn’t meet federal environmental standards. The federal agency proposed striking down the so-called flexible air permits issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, last September, saying they violate the Clean Air Act. Under the act, all states have to develop a state implementation plan to meet federal requirements... |
Cementos Portland awarded European Excellence Award27 June 2010, Published under Cement NewsCementos Portland Valderrivas has been awarded the European Excellence Award granted by the Autonomous Community of Madrid, said today a subsidiary of FCC. The distinction highlights the management of the factory in Morata de Tajuña (Madrid) which has been in operation since 1972. The plant currently has two 3,500tpd lines. President and CEO of Cementos Portland, Dieter Kiefer, collected the award at a ceremony held in the morning at the headquarters of the Community of Madrid, chaired... |