Cement News tagged under: Environmental
Holcim sets emissions and safety targets04 July 2006, Published under Cement NewsHolcim has announced that it has set new targets for emissions and occupational health and safety. Holcim is well on track to meeting its sustainability targets. Thus, for example, net CO2 emissions per ton of cement have been reduced by 14.7% since 1990. The voluntary target of a 20% reduction by 2010 is therefore within reach. For the first time, CO2 data have been assured by an external auditor. Holcim has set itself additional targets in the two important areas of occupational hea... |
Making tomorrow’s buildings more energy efficient04 July 2006, Published under Cement NewsAccording to the International Energy Agency, the consumption of coal, oil and gas rose by 700% between the early 1960s and the year 2000. Today approximately 40% of the total energy used in OECD countries is used in buildings. The goals of the WBCSD’s project on energy efficiency in buildings are energy self-sufficiency and carbon neutrality at reasonable costs by 2050. China has decided to make energy efficiency a top priority and as such has included some significant goals in its 11th fi... |
Tarmac’s eco-friendly approach to business04 July 2006, Published under Cement NewsTarmac is spearheading an ambitious eco-friendly restoration project to enhance the environment in one of the first initiatives of its kind in the UK. The firm has consulted a team of environmental specialists ahead of launching the restoration project at Swanworth Quarry, which is located in the Dorset countryside within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The quarry lies adjacent to a stretch of the Dorset coastline which forms part of the Jurassic Coast, a designated World Heritage Sit... |
Bryant Mather Scholarship Awarded to Raissa Ferron04 July 2006, Published under Cement NewsThe 2006 ASTM International Katherine and Bryant Mather Scholarship has been awarded to Raissa Ferron, a teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate studying self-consolidating concrete and cementitious materials at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. ASTM International Committee C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates administers the scholarship, which assists full-time undergraduate students who are completing their second/sophomore year of college, or graduate students pursuing degrees ... |
Cement dust is ’no real risk to health’30 June 2006, Published under Cement NewsFears that dumped cement kiln dust would be a risk to health cannot be proved experts say. Castle Cement wants to tip dust waste from its new UK£56m kiln on farmland at the firm’s Padeswood factory near Buckley. It will save the company hauling up to 10,000t of dust to special dumps outside North Wales. But Flintshire councillors threw out the firm’s tip application, against officers’ advice, saying it posed a risk to health and water courses. The company appealed to the Assembl... |
Siam City Cement to invest in alternative fuel21 June 2006, Published under Cement NewsSiam City Cement plans to set up a new power plant burning industrial waste, a report in Krungthep Turakij said. Holcim, the major shareholder in Siam City Cement, has been successful in building a trash-burning power plant at its factory in Ziggenthal, Switzerland. The company hopes to use the same technology to set up a trash-burning power plant to provide energy for its plant in Saraburi, Thailand. The project will cost US$20-30m. It will use mainly old tyres and used oil as fuel, as wel... |
Climb every mountain, swim every river16 June 2006, Published under Cement NewsHolcim has succeeded in using alternative fuel at many of its plants worldwide. Holcim has now begun to apply the new approach to its affiliate plant in Saraburi province, Thailand, with an investment amounting to Bt1 billion. "Holcim is using household and industrial waste to substitute for fossil fuels, including coal and lignite, in the production of cement," said Barbara Dubach, vice president of Holcim Group Support Ltd. "After 15 years of using alternative fuels and raw materials f... |
Meeting was not a secret, says Cemex16 June 2006, Published under Cement NewsOwners of Rugby Cement Works have hit back over claims they held a secret meeting to discuss new fuel-burning proposals. Cemex outlined plans to trial the new Climafuel system at a meeting on June 2, and as reported in the local press one of the reporters attended the meeting. Lilian Pallikaropoulos, of campaign group Rugby in Plume, claimed the event, which was also attended by councillors and interested parties, was a ’propaganda exercise’ and hadn’t been advertised correctly. However, Ian... |
Italcementi receives social award15 June 2006, Published under Cement NewsItalcementi achieved recognition for TX Active®, the photocatalytic active principle for cement products capable of fighting against air pollution, by receiving the Sodalitas Social Award. Italcementi was granted this prestigious honour in the category “Innovation - significant social and environment-friendly products”. “I am pleased to stress that this innovative outcome developed by Italcementi is the result of Italian research, said the company’s Chairman, Giampiero Pesenti. An important... |
Ghacem Briefs Parliamentary Select Committee15 June 2006, Published under Cement NewsGhacem Limited last week briefed a parliamentary select committee on Environment, Science and Technology delegation on the company’s Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) programme. The acting managing director of Ghacem, Mr. Graham Bell, disclosed that Ghacem was investing about ¢7 billion between 2005 and 2008 on HSE-related issues and that the investments would ensure Ghacem’s plants continued to comply with local and international standards as well as the company’s. Ghacem, he said, was ... |