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Mannok’s greater fuel flexibility

04 March 2024, Published under Cement News

As a key step in the decarbonisation of its cement plant operations, Ireland-based Mannok Cement has installed a FUELFLEX® Pyrolyzer combustion system which enables the producer to burn up to 100 per cent alternative fuels in the calciner while reducing its NOx emissions. The next obvious step for Mannok was to upgrade its coal dosing system to reduce the amount of coal going into the preheater to an absolute minimum without sacrificing flexibility. By Peter Norek, FLSmidth, Denmark. ...

Mannok's commitment to energy efficiency pays dividends

05 February 2024, Published under Cement News

Ireland’s Mannok Cement has revealed that since 2017 it has saved 59mkWh of energy at its cement manufacturing facility through a multi-million-euro investment in energy-saving projects, while adhering to and retaining the energy management standard, ISO 50001. The saving is equivalent to the annual electrical energy usage of 14,047 Irish households, each consuming 4200kWh of electricity. The company began its journey of improving energy efficiency in 2017 while preparing for ISO 50001...

Natural gas and CO2 abatement across the Atlantic

30 June 2023, Published under Cement News

This week we look at the differing attitudes to alternative fuels (AFs) on each side of the Atlantic. While CEMBUREAU in its 2022 Activity Report has demonstrated the rising level of co-processing in the EU-27 as achieving 52 per cent, in the USA a study by Global Efficiency Intelligence (GEI) has argued that US cement plants may well do better replacing coal and petcoke with natural gas rather than alternative fuels. Europe is considered the leading proponent of co-processing and the use...

Meeting the biodiversity challenge

26 May 2023, Published under Cement News

This week saw the UN-sanctioned "International Day for Biological Diversity", dedicated to promoting its new theme "From Agreement to Action: Build Back Biodiversity". The next UN Climate Change Conference, COP 28, which takes place in Dubai, UAE at the end of the year will advance this agenda further, as well as take stock of the implementation of the Paris Agreement objectives for biodiversity. Recognition of biodiversity loss and the need to change damaging practices is a starting poin...

Mannok Holdings records 18% rise in turnover in 2022

21 April 2023, Published under Cement News

Mannok Holdings   2022 operating performance for the 12 months ended 31 December 2022, saw turnover increased by 17.7 per cent on the prior year period from EUR269.9m to EUR317.7m, largely driven by inflationary induced pricing.   Despite the inflationary environment, EBITDA was unchanged on the prior year period at EUR25.8m, reflecting a gradual pass through of rising input costs, fluctuations in the euro-sterling exchange rate and a softening of demand in response to price pressur...

Mannok Cement hosts research team from Denmark

28 March 2022, Published under Cement News

Mannok Cement has hosted a team of six senior student researchers from the Technical University of Denmark. The students are part of a project, which also includes FLSmidth and Rockwool, to make cement production more sustainable by reducing the use of fossil fuels as well as CO 2 and NO x emissions at the cement plant. Led by FLSmidth’s research and development specialist and project manager, Lars Skaarup Jensen, the students collected data and analysed their newly-developed technolog...