Cement News tagged under: decarbonisation
Continental Cement signs hydrogen MoU24 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsSummit Materials , in partnership with its subsidiary Continental Cement Co , has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PCC Hydrogen Inc (PCCH2), a producer of negative carbon intensity hydrogen, to develop a fuel replacement strategy to lower carbon emissions from Continental's cement manufacturing process. The project aims to deploy negative carbon intensity hydrogen derived from ethanol as a replacement fuel for the existing hydrocarbon fuels used as a source of heat in the... |
Australia embraces low carbon23 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsThe carbon tax has had a profound effect on Australia’s cement industry, which has expanded its clinker grinding facilities and channelled investment into decarbonisation measures. New players are also keen to enter the market while the government looks at preventing carbon leakage in the face of growing imports. Australia’s cement industry looks firmly towards the future as it embraces decarbonisation with investments in current plants and future technologies (© AdBri) Austr... |
Bamburi Cement calls for collaborative approach on decarbonisation23 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsKenya’s Bamburi Cement has issued a rallying call to the country’s construction sector to encourage decarbonisation. According to Capital Business, the company is in talks with designers, engineers, developers, contractors, materials manufacturer and industry bodies across Mombasa, Kisumu and Nairobi on how to develop a low-carbon pathway. Speaking to over 120 sector players at a recent event in Mombasa, Mohit Kapoor, CEO of Bamburi Cement, said, “The construction process and the materi... |
Ironing out the carbon emissions of clinker production17 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsThe use of iron-rich industrial wastes can provide one of the pathways to decarbonising the global cement industry with high-ferrite cement types embodying less CO 2 than their ordinary counterparts. By Cecilia Pesce, Aniruddha Baral, Anna Simmons and Theodore Hanein, The University of Sheffield, UK. Figure 1: estimates of potential raw meal replacement, calcium replacement, and raw materials-related CO 2 savings by using different types of iron-rich waste products in differen... |
Study reveals cost of decarbonising India's cement industry16 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsIndia’s steel and cement plants will require INR47trn (US$627bn) in additional capital expenditure (capex) to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, according to independent studies by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW). The studies also suggest that both industries will require additional operational expenditure (opex) of INR1trn each year to go net zero. The study also found that an 8-25 per cent reduction in steel emissions and 32 per cent reduction in cement emissions is p... |
First Graphene enters development and commercialisation agreement with Breedon13 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsFollowing on from the positive results from First Graphene’s first round of trials of its graphene-enhanced cement at Breedon Cement’s Hope Cement Works , UK, First Graphene has now entered a joint development and commercialisation agreement with Breedon Group . The agreement will facilitate the company’s development of a range of graphene-enhanced solutions to reduce the clinker factor of Breedon’s cement and reduce its carbon footprint. Both companies have agreed to focus on enhancin... |
Limak Cement introduces printable mortar series for 3D concrete printers11 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsTurkey-based Limak Cement has introduced LimakCement 3DC-101, the first, lower-carbon product of its innovative printable mortar series suitable for 3D concrete printers at Cemtech Europe 2023 – Decarbonising the cement industry , the conference organised by International Cement Review and supported by TÜRKCIMENTO currently taking place in Istanbul, Turkey. Limak Cement has successfully designed LimakCement 3DC-101, which is a unique and environmentally friendly mortar mixture suitable ... |
Towards Germany’s first fully-decarbonised cement plant10 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsHeidelberg Materials’ new GeZero project will completely decarbonise cement production at the Geseke plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The first of its kind project will establish a full carbon capture and storage value chain for an inland site and is expected to capture 700,000tpa of CO 2 from 2029. Here, the company outlines the project’s scope and set-up for full-scale carbon capture. By Heidelberg Materials, Germany. Construction of Heidelberg Materials’ GeZero CCUS proje... |
Limak Cement launches Triple Transformation Project at Cemtech Europe 202310 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsTurkish cement producer Limak Cement has launched its Triple Transformation Project (TTP) at Cemtech Europe 2023 – Decarbonising the cement industry , the conference organised by International Cement Review and supported by TÜRKCIMENTO. The company’s most important project to achieve net zero emission, the TTP is supported by the twin transition approach leveraged by the Federal Centre of Excellence (LCoEdx) and Green Data Center Projects in the global cement industry. Limak Cement... |
Implications of EU's call to ban climate-neutral offsetting06 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsThe EU institutions finalised a new law on 19 September 2023 to enact a sweeping ban to combat erroneous claims of sustainability. Companies will be prevented from 'greenwashing', a term used to describe the practice of making misleading claims about a product's climate friendliness. Gilles Dufrasane, policy lead at Carbon Market Watch, says: "The EU is sending a powerful signal to the voluntary carbon market: the era of offsetting is over." What does this mean for the cement sector? For ... |