Cement News tagged under: Environmental
Kenya must set up environmental policy22 February 2006, Published under Cement NewsThe Kenyan Government has been asked to formulate an environmental management policy. Mvita MP Najib Balala said yesterday that the Government needed to work closely with key partners, including NGOs and the business community, to develop the policy. Poor planning, he said, had made urban slums inaccessible, making their development difficult. The former National Heritage minister was speaking at Floringi in his constituency when he launched an infrastructure upgrading project. The pr... |
Holly Hill to use nonhazardous solid waste22 February 2006, Published under Cement NewsEnergis LLC, has begun supplying nonhazardous solid waste as fuel at the Holcim Holly Hill, South Carolina, plant. The waste, which will include plastics, oil absorbents, wood and paint solids, will supplement the company´s use of fossil fuels to power its cement kiln. The materials must have heat values of at least 5,000 BTUs, said Mario Romero, president of Energis. The program will divert waste from landfills while reducing the company´s reliance on fossil fuels. Energis is a wholly owned... |
Fairborn plant hopes for tyre burn17 February 2006, Published under Cement NewsGreene County Commissioners recently gave Cemex, with its cement production plant in Fairborn, permission to apply for a Scrap Tyre Grant as the company prepares to burn scrap tyres as fuel. Officials forecast the project, if successful, will generate a combined $440,000 in state and federal taxes. But a local environmental group has cried foul, claiming "burning tires is a dangerous business resulting in increased emissions of some of the most toxic chemicals known," according to Dawn Fal... |
No accidents at Italcementi Castrovillari Plant 2004-200517 February 2006, Published under Cement NewsNo workplace accidents took place at the Castrovillari cement production plan of Italian construction company Italcementi near Cosenza in southern Italy, in the last two years, the company said on February 16, 2006. According to Italcementi, that was the result of workplace security programme Zero Infortuni (No Accidents), launched in 2000 at all company plants in Italy and abroad. The incidence of workplace accidents in cement producing plants in Italy fell by 90 per cent since the start ... |
Tororo dust emissions anger16 February 2006, Published under Cement NewsThe Ugandan District Environment Officer, Mr John Gongo, has said Tororo Cement Industry Ltd faces closure due to the continued disposal of large amounts of dust in the air during the night. He said the industry has continued to defy regulations by the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) despite several warnings to stop. "These people are taking advantage of night time to dispose of large amounts of dust in the air which is illegal, they are defying the NEMA regulations that ... |
Castle’s help for green group09 February 2006, Published under Cement NewsCastle Cement has donated the use of offices within its Ribblesdale site, on the edge of Clitheroe, to the Ribble Catchment Conservation Trust. Since the Trust was established eight years ago, Castle Cement has donated hundreds of tonnes of stone to help stop the erosion of riverbanks along the rivers Ribble, Calder and Hodder. Now the company has stepped in to help the Trust with its growth plans by offering free use of a semi-redundant office block within its Ribblesdale works. Trust ... |
Tyre-burning to re-start?03 February 2006, Published under Cement NewsManagers at Rugby Cement, now part of Cemex, are confident tyre-burning will start again very soon on a permanent basis. The plant has just completed its trials into the controversial method, which protesters claim causes dangerous emissions to be pumped out over the town. But Mexican owners Cemex, who took over the plant last March, has always denied the claim and said its annual figures showing a record-breaking year in 2005 shows that Rugby Cement is improving its environmental performan... |
Investment cements plant’s future in Laramie03 February 2006, Published under Cement NewsMountain Cement’s Kiln No. 1 makes cement at a prodigious 576t per day. The larger by Kiln No. 2 fires its way to 1345t of cement every day. However, both kilns are being eliminated in favor of a single smaller, but far more productive, US$120m replacement increasing cement production by 60 per cent. Construction is scheduled to begin in spring 2007 and will be completed in fall 2008, a spokesman said. Mountain Cement’s parent company, Texas-based Eagle Materials, is also upgrading its Nev... |
Activists ask Cemex to clean up31 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsAn environmental watchdog group that successfully challenged a proposal to exempt the oil and gas industry from water-quality regulations last year is shifting its focus to the maligned Cemex cement plant in Lyons, colorado (reports The Daily Times). Denver-based Colorado Citizens Campaign wants the cement company to adopt more stringent pollution controls at its plant and is knocking on doors in the area to ask for help. The plant’s neighbors have questioned Cemex’s pollution-control pract... |
Cement plant dispute unresolved30 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsAfter three months, the settlement between Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, the Sierra Club and Mountain Cement that all parties agreed to in court still hasn’t been finalised. The environmental groups alleged that the cement plant repeatedly violated its emissions permit, and the settlement was agreed to midtrial. In part, the settlement requires Mountain Cement to reduce emissions by replacing the electrostatic precipitator on kiln No. 2 with a more efficient baghouse within 18 month... |