Cement News tagged under: Environmental
Crackdown on concrete21 December 2004, Published under Cement NewsA campaign is underway in Auckland, New Zealand to combat what is seen as an alarming rise in pollution from concrete products. The Auckland Regional Council’s campaign aims to prevent water pollution from concrete and thereby save the lives of native fish. The Council says concrete and cement runoff produces a strong alkaline solution that kills fish and insects. The council says over the last four years there has been a 600 per cent increase in cement-related water pollution, caused by a... |
Tyre surcharge for recycling21 December 2004, Published under Cement NewsScrap tire piles aren’t just unsightly; they’re dangerous, bad for the environment and costly to remove. A proposal from US State House Speaker Rick Johnson could go a long way toward cleaning up the blight they create. Johnson’s last-minute addition to the bill proposed a surcharge of 75 cents on every new tire purchased in Michigan. One-third of the money would have gone toward scrap-tire removal; two-thirds into grants for companies developing alternative uses for the tires. Legislator... |
Holcim opens development contest20 December 2004, Published under Cement NewsArchitects, engineers, developers and project owners in Asia, including Indonesia, have been invited to take part in a US$2m competition on sustainable development held by a Swiss foundation. "We are trying to stimulate these creative people to come up with ideas of sustainable construction that are beneficial in terms of the environment, community, economy and culture," contest committee chairman for Indonesia Rusli Setiawan said on Friday. The event is organized by the Swiss-ba... |
Waste site go-ahead16 December 2004, Published under Cement NewsA Landfill site which will take 10,000t of hazardous waste a year has been approved, despite concerns about its impact on neighbours’ health. The facility, at Castle Cement’s Lanehead Quarry, near Clitheroe, will dispose of 175,000 cubic metres of cement kiln dust (CKD) over the next 23 years. Three trailer loads of waste a day will be transported in covered wagons along private roads within the quarry. Residents in Chatburn, some of whom live just 250metres from the site, fear dust emissi... |
Balloons help depict planned cement plant profile16 December 2004, Published under Cement NewsPeople who saw balloons floating in the air near the City of Hudson Wednesday got a glimpse of how visible St. Lawrence Cement’s controversial cement plant would be if it is built. Wednesday’s test updated a similar balloon test in April. In August, the company announced plant changes it said would significantly reduce the plant’s visibility. St. Lawrence wants to close its Catskill plant and build one with three times its capacity in the Town of Greenport. The balloon test was required by... |
Davenport cement plans for Cemex16 December 2004, Published under Cement NewsLocal residents are wondering what changes might result if Cemex buys Britain’s RMC Group, which owns the cement plant on Highway 1. The $5.8 billion deal, slated to close Jan. 12, was approved Thursday by the European Union Commission, which saw no blocks to competition, but the US Federal Trade Commission has yet to clear the acquisition. "Hopefully we can get clearance in the next few days," said Eric Woodhouse, president of RMC Pacific Materials, based in Pleasanton. The cement plant,... |
’Hot rocks’ found at cement plant16 December 2004, Published under Cement NewsA former cement works in County Durham, UK is to be the site of the UK’s first "hot rocks" village. The Blue Circle cement works at Eastgate, near Stanhope, closed in 2002 with the loss of 147 jobs. A task force set up after the closure opted to search for natural hot water deep below the site. More than three months after drilling began, experts have revealed enough geothermal energy has been found to make the project viable. A team began drilling in September, boring 1000m below th... |
Plan to cut pollution rises from the ashes15 December 2004, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Cement’s Cauldon Works is to continue in its mission to reduce its impact on the environment by replacing some of the raw materials it currently uses with a by-product of the paper industry. The company is looking at reducing the amount of raw materials it has to dig from its quarries to make cement. Historically it has used limestone and shale as the main ingredients. Now, in an innovative way of using a derivative of the paper industry, Lafarge will use paper ash to replace some... |
Holcim Romania invests in environment protection15 December 2004, Published under Cement NewsHolcim Romania, a subsidiary of Swiss cement company Holcim Ltd, invested Euro3.0m in an environment protection project comprising equipment upgrade at its plants in Campulung, southern Romania and Alesd, northwestern Romania, the company’s country manager Markus Wirth, said on December 13, 2004. The equipment, complying with EU standards, enables the cement plants to process 100 types of waste among which petrol waste, plastic, paper, wood, rubber, packaging and organic products. Holcim ... |
Bonemeal to fuel cement plant, UK14 December 2004, Published under Cement NewsA cement works has been given the go-ahead to burn meat and bone meal as fuel at its South Wales plant. The Environment Agency Wales has confirmed that Lafarge Cement"s plant at Aberthaw, in the Vale of Glamorgan, will be given a nine-month trial to use the animal-derived substance as a source of energy. Earlier this year, Friends of the Earth announced its opposition to the burning of so-called "biowaste" at cement plants. But John Harrison, the area"s environment manager for the E... |