Cement News tagged under: Lafarge Canada
Geocycle and Lafarge Canada to divert waste to Brookfield plant11 May 2023, Published under Cement NewsDriven by its Strategy 2025 ‘Accelerating Green Growth’, Geocycle Canada and Lafarge Canada have been paving the way to use low-carbon alternative fuels to divert household, commercial, and construction and demolition wastes away from landfills. The project will significantly increase the plant’s capacities to pre-process plastics and high biogenic waste materials (banned from landfills in Nova Scotia), and then sustainably co-process these wastes in the cement manufacturing process. T... |
Lafarge Canada acquires Westridge Quarries01 May 2023, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Canada (Holcim) has acquired Westridge Quarries operations. Westridge is a well-established supplier of construction aggregates and contract crushing services for the Okanagan Valley. The acquisition is in alignment with Lafarge’s Strategy 2025 to expand its aggregates business through critical acquisitions of pits, quarries, docks, and depots in strategic high growth markets. “This is an exciting step forward in our 2025 growth strategy,” said Brad Kohl, President & CEO, Lafar... |
Lafarge Canada installs EV chargers as part of net zero goals30 March 2023, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Canada has installed two electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at its Innovation Hub at Winterburn, as part of the company's sustainability goal to reduce indirect carbon emissions from sources. Following the installation of EV chargers at the Kent Avenue ready-mix site in Vancouver, Lafarge's Innovation Hub in northern Alberta's prairie region is Lafarge’s first location in the province, and contributes to the target of 100 charging stations planned for installation across Br... |
Lafarge Canada fined for dust pollution09 March 2023, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Canada Inc has been fined CAD$200,000 (US$145,395) for breaching the Environmental Protection Act, reports The Intelligencer. In October 2019 clinker dust from the company’s Highway 33 cement plant in Loyalist, Ontario, was blown onto cars, homes and lawns in Bath, a village lying 3km away from the plant. An investigation into the incident, led by the Ministry of Environment, resulted in Lafarge Canada being charged, despite there being no health implications from the dust. L... |
Lafarge Canada begins low-carbon concrete project11 January 2023, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Canada and TransAlta Corp have entered into an agreement to advance low-carbon concrete projects in Alberta with a project to repurpose landfilled fly ash. Landfilled fly ash must first go through a beneficiation process to be used in concrete. This project will utilise the Ash-TEK Ponded Ash Beneficiation System (PABS) technology, which consistently produced high quality ash during trials and has proven to have a low carbon footprint and an economical operating cost. Lafarge pl... |
Lafarge Cement fully converts Brookfield Cement Plant to OneCem21 December 2022, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Canada has announced the full transformation of its Brookfield Cement Plant in Nova Scotia to a greener portfolio. From now on, the plant will only produce reduced carbon Portland limestone cement - branded as OneCem - the company’s eco-efficient alternative. Brookfield is Lafarge’s third cement plant to be converted in 2022 and the first Atlantic market plant to convert - the others being the Bath Cement Plant in June and the Richmond Cement Plant in March. OneCem is a su... |
Lafarge Canada opens first EV charging station16 August 2022, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Canada (Holcim group) has announced the opening of the company’s first four electric vehicle charging stations in Canada at its Kent Ave ready-mixed concrete plant in Vancouver, British Columbia. The project was initiated in March 2022 by Lafarge’s Vancouver team with support from Lafarge Canada for secured funding of CAD50,000 (US$38,669) and an additional CAD20,000 from the CleanBC Go electric vehicle (EV) charger rebate programme administered by BC Hydro. The Kent Ave stat... |
Lafarge Exshaw plant receives carbon capture funding21 July 2022, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Canada ’s Exshaw Cement plant is one of 11 recipients to receive funding from Emissions Reduction Alberta’s (ERA) CAD40m (US$31m) investment to kickstart CAD$20bn in carbon capture projects in Alberta. This investment could position Exshaw to be Canada’s first net zero cement plant. The Exshaw plant will receive CAD5m ERA funding towards its CAD10m CCUS project costs. The project will collaborate with strategic partners across the value chain and includes considerations fo... |
Canada’s Bath plant converts to OneCem production29 June 2022, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Canada’ s Bath cement plant, near Kingston, Ontario, is converting its entire production of general use cement to OneCem, the company’s low-carbon Portland limestone cement. “At the Bath Plant, we are excited to increase our OneCem production and to provide our customers with this sustainable product, so that every project they build with our product can have a smaller carbon footprint,” said Bath cement plant manager, Ignacio Arroyo, in a statement. Since 2011 Lafarge Canada, ... |
Lafarge Canada's Point Anne Quarry wins OSSGA Award08 March 2022, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Canada 's Point Anne Quarry in Thurlow has received the 2021 Progressive Rehabilitation Award from the Ontario Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (OSSGA). The award, which was presented at OSSGA’s 2022 Conference & AGM at the end of February, recognises the ongoing efforts of individual operators to progressively rehabilitate their sites in accordance with their site plans. From 2009 to 2020, Point Anne Quarry has been rehabilitating its south and west faces, which total approxi... |