Indonesian cement plants to burn medical waste
Indonesia’s Environment and Forestry Ministry has asked four cement plants to burn untreated medical waste. In early April the ministry requested PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa,...
Alternative fuels in cement production
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Burning used tyres Premium
One way of reducing the fossil fuel requirement in clinker production is through the use of alternative fuels (AFs). Walter Materials handling, part of the ATS Group, looks at o...
Alternative fuels and clinker crystal characteristics Premium
Arthur Harrisson examines the effect of alternative fuel use on the characteristics of crystals present in clinker. Figure 1: difference in alite quantity measured by microscopy...
Vassiliko Cement in talks to take SRF/RDF waste
The Water Development Department (WDD) in Cyprus is in talks with Vassiliko Cement Works to use byproducts generated at the municipal waste treatment plant at Pentakomo as alter...
Actions not words
Climate change is one of the key issues of our time, but the world is far from achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement. Like every energy and CO2-intensive sector, the g...
Increased demand for alternative fuel in Egypt
Egypt’s Minister of Environment, Khaled Fahmy, has opened a cement production line at Arabian Cement Co’s facility in Ain Sokhna, Suez, that uses Hot Disk technology for alterna...
LafargeHolcim treated 10Mt of waste in 2017
LafargeHolcim’s global waste treatment arm, Geocycle, treated 10Mt of waste in 2017, an increase of 13 per cent YoY. The company co-processed many different types of waste, incl...
MPA challenges government for level playing field on energy pricing and biomass fuels
The Mineral Products Association's (MPA) 2017 annual sustainable development report highlights that although domestic sales have steadily improved since 2012, UK manufacturers c...
Waste to wealth Premium
Lafarge Africa’s Ewekoro plant, some 50km north of Lagos, in Ogun state, Nigeria, pioneered the use of alternative fuels in the country. The company charts the milestones and lo...
Bid to block LafargeHolcim burning tyres is rejected
The bid to block LafargeHolcim burning tyres at its plant in Brookfield, Nova Scotia, Canada, has been rejected by a Supreme Court judge, according to CBC News.