Blowouts at Irish Cement spark calls for action
Following a recent early morning blowout at Irish Cement , a subsidiary of CRH Plc , that left local residents waking to cars and property coated in white dust, calls have been ...
Dust Emissions
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Asia Cement’s SWAP Premium
The trend for longer bags in baghouses requires cement plants to review their bag cleaning systems. Gas filtration specialist CTP Team recently installed its advanced SWAP techn...
Keeping Austria’s air clean Premium
Rather than a traditional pulse-jet cleaning system, Rohrdorfer Zement opted for a state-of-the-art SWAP-based dust removal system to replace the existing kiln and raw mill elec...
Dealing with dust Premium
With dust chemistry varying between direct operation when the raw mill is out of action and indirect operation when the raw mill is running, finding a destination for baghouse d...
Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe ordered to shut plant by EMA
The Environmental Management Agency ordered Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe (LafargeHolcim group) to close its 0.45Mta Manresa plant last week, because of abnormal dust discharges. Lafa...
Tasek’s fabric filter conversion Premium
CTP Team has completed an ESP conversion project for Tasek Corp’s Ipoh cement plant in Malaysia to help the producer comply with new regulations for dust emissions at the stack....
Irish Cement fined EUR4000 for dust spill
Irish Cement has been fined EUR4000 for breaching terms of its industrial emissions licence, when thick “glue-like” dust spilled from its Co Limerick plant, resulting in damage ...
Pacific Cement Ltd issued with order to stop work
Fiji's Pacific Cement Ltd, a subsidiary of Fijian Holdings Ltd based in Lami, has been issued a Stop Work Notice by the country’s Department of Environment. The department visit...
CIMAF Ghana invests in managing environmental impact
CIMAF Ghana Ltd has allocated 15 per cent (US$9.9m) of its US$66m investment in the country to manage the environmental impact of its production facilities, according to Ghana Web.
Duna-Dráva Cement completes plant renovation
Duna-Dráva Cement Kft has announced that a HUF7bn (US$26.12m) project to improve sustainability at its facility in Vác, Hungary, has been completed. Construction work took place...