Cement News tagged under: Environmental
Australia: dust fears from cement factory01 December 2009, Published under Cement NewsResidents near Cockburn Cement in Munster were concerned to see a large plume of dust rising from the plant and settle on cars and homes in their street last Monday. Cockburn Cement WA general manager operations Darrin Strange told the Gazette that equipment failure was behind the emission of calcium carbonate dust, a raw material used to manufacture lime from the kiln stack. A failed switch had cut power to the Kiln 5 electrostatic precipitator, meaning it was unable to trap dust from the... |
ACC uses municipal waste to fire its kilns01 December 2009, Published under Cement NewsACC Ltd is discussing with a number of urban local bodies to co-process municipal solid waste and industrial waste in its cement kilns. The company, which has a dozen cement units distributed across several States, has so far replaced about 2.5 per cent of the coal it uses to fire its kilns with about 3 lakh tonnes of ‘substitute fuels and raw materials.’ These are primarily urban solid waste and industrial wastes, according to Mr Ulhas Parlikar, Director, Alternative Fuels and Raw Materia... |
Australian quarry worries unresolved26 November 2009, Published under Cement NewsMarino and Hallett Cove residents remain unconvinced after a fiery public meeting at which Boral was supposed to clear the air over its Linwood Quarry. The two-hour meeting held last week at Hallett Cove Baptist Church was attended by about 75 residents and representatives from Boral, Marion Council, Primary Industries and Resources SA (PIRSA) and the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA). Residents told the meeting that loud blasts and clouds of grey dust from the Boral-operated quarry... |
Cement: a solution to global warming?20 November 2009, Published under Cement NewsIn 2011, a cement factory will open in South Kensington, London, UK. In fact, the Novacem industrial pilot plant will be housed on campus at Imperial College. This is where scientists initially developed a cement that is carbon negative as it produces far less CO2 during the manufacturing process but then will actually absorb CO2 from the air. Now a company created from this research is attempting to make this discovery commercially available. Chairman of Novacem, Stuart M Evans, ack... |
Petition launched to stop Lafarge Canada quarry expansion18 November 2009, Published under Cement NewsA group of residents opposed to the expansion of a gravel mine in Pitt Meadows are now gathering signatures for a petition to send to the province. The Sheridan Hill residents vow to ramp up protests against expansion of Pitt River Quarries, despite being told the decision will be free from political interference. We are going to forward the petition to the minister in charge, said Brent Richards. “We are also trying to encourage council to put pressure provincially because we got the ... |
Holcim commissions waste management unit, Sri Lanka18 November 2009, Published under Cement NewsGeocycle, a business unit of Holcim (Lanka) Ltd was commissioned yesterday with an investment of LKR200m as a dedicated waste management organization at the Katunayake Export Processing Zone (KEPZ). Lack of appropriate methods for the treatment of industrial waste in Sri Lanka has caused socio-economic and ecological problems. In this context, the cement industry is obliged to offer the services of its kilns to develop sustainable industrial waste management solutions, employing a globall... |
Lafarge permit study continues, USA16 November 2009, Published under Cement NewsWhile community members and advocacy groups review the proposed Title 5 operating permit for the Lafarge cement plant, two groups – the state Department of Health and representatives at the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health – are working on separate health studies relating to effects of the plant’s potentially toxic emissions. Jeffrey Hammond, spokesperson for the state Department of Health, said the agency’s public health assessment will “recommend ac... |
EPA Critical of Titan’s Air Permit, USA04 November 2009, Published under Cement NewsThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has told North Carolina regulators that their draft air permit for the proposed Titan Cement plant near Wilmington isn’t tough enough to meet the new pollution standards for cement plants that EPA will soon release, according to a press release from the North Carolina Coastal Federation. In a letter to permit engineers at the state’s Division of Air Quality, Gregg M. Worley, EPA’s chief of the Air Permit Section in the Southeast, echoed many of the c... |
Sugar Creek must wait on Lafarge decision27 October 2009, Published under Cement NewsIt might be December or January before residents know whether a limestone mining proposal can move forward in Sugar Creek. About 50 protesters demonstrated Monday night outside Sugar Creek City Hall, where a new evidence hearing represented the latest installment in a long-running debate over the proposed subsurface mining operation. Last year Lafarge Aggregates, a construction materials company, filed a rezoning request to mine limestone underneath a former dairy farm called Cedar Crest. ... |
Air quality to improve near Rugby plant, UK26 October 2009, Published under Cement NewsAir quality in Rugby looks set to improve after Cemex UK won permission to use environmentally-friendly Climafuel at its Rugby plant. Trials of the greener, sustainable fuel – which is derived from household waste – showed significant environmental and sustainability benefits, including a 30 per cent reduction in emissions of oxides of nitrogen, high levels of which can hospitalise those with respiratory conditions such as asthma and bronchitis. During a detailed air quality assessment* un... |