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Dangote donates bags for agro-waste and alternative fuel payback

30 January 2023, Published under Cement News

Dangote Cement’s   Ibese plant has donated 25,000 of 100kg capacity bags for management of agro-waste in communities across Nigeria. Being burned or left rotten on the fields by farmers once, agriculture waste, known as agro-waste, has turned into the best alternative fuel for industries. As an eco-friendly initiative, industries have started using agro-waste briquettes along with coal or other non-renewable sources of fuel. Green activists saw increased usage of agro-waste for indus...

Tarmac introduces a fully-recyclable hybrid bag

17 March 2021, Published under Cement News

Tarmac (CRH Group) has moved to using 50 per cent recycled plastic in its packaging, with the release of new all-weather, fully-recyclable hybrid bag.  Manufacturing facilities in Scotland and Wales are all now in production with the new bag, which offers rip, tear and puncture resistance, as well as providing essential protection against rain and water damage. Other sites currently producing a 30 per cent recycled content bag are due to switch to the latest packaging in the coming months...

Diamond Cement Mali awards sack contract to SCS DMC

12 December 2019, Published under Cement News

Diamond Cement Mali has awarded the contract to produce its cement bags to the new Société Malienne de Cartonnerie (SCS MDC). The contract was signed on 6 December by Prasad Motaparti, CEO of Diamond Cement Mali and Moussa Silvain Diakité, CEO of MDC. Under the contract, the bag manufacturer will produce more than 20m cement bags to pack the cement producer’s entire output, estimated at 1Mta. "This is our first big contract. From the first quarter of next year, we will start with the deli...