USA: Lafarge Bath plant applies to burn railroad ties and shingles
Three years after backing off on a plan to burn tyres at its cement plant in Bath, Lafarge is applying to introduce railway ties and asphalt shingles into its kiln. The “low-car...
Alternative fuels in cement production
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Hima Cement’s alternative fuels initiative, Uganda
Uganda-based producer Hima Cement is looking to increase its use of coffee husks as an energy source for cement production. The East African reports that the company is to spend...
Taiheiyo Cement recycles waste into profits
Taiheiyo Cement Corp is boosting its bottom line in an efficient and ecological way by recycling industrial waste into materials for making cement.
Cemex nearer to alternative fuel permit, USA
Cemex is a step closer to using alternative fuels at Kiln No 2 of its Brooksville South plant with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) reportedly poised to...
GCC tyre burning permit nearing approval, USA
A plan to burn tyres at GCC’s Rio Grande plant in Pueblo, Colorado, USA is nearing final approval. State air pollution regulators have issued a draft permit for GCC Rio Grande's...
Holcim Lanka’s alternative fuels option, Sri Lanka
Holcim Lanka Ltd is beginning to use agricultural waste to generate power in the cement manufacturing process. Speaking to the Daily News Business, Chairman of Holcim Lanka, Man...
RDF – stored and delivered Premium
When Cementos Molins Industrial of Spain needed a new RDF preparation, storage and transport facility, the cement producer turned to Vecoplan FuelTrack. The German firm put its ...
Semen Padang in alternative fuels initiative, Indonesia
Indonesia's Semen Padang is developing the use of waste materials to replace coal, according to Abusyamsari, a member of the company’s innovation team. The state-owned cement pr...
Dyckerhoff Ukraine in alternative fuels initiative
Dyckerhoff Ukraine intends to use briquettes of household fuel as waste at its Volyn Tsement plant in Zdolbuniv, Rivne region. Ukrainian News reported the company’s head of ecol...
How to burn more secondary fuel Premium
The trend towards ever-higher substitution rates of noble primary fuel by waste-derived secondary fuels has been strong for some decades already and still there is no sign for t...