Behind the numbers Premium
The Cement Sustainability Initiative’s “Getting the numbers right” project has seen the creation of a sizeable and influential database on cement plant emissions and energy cons...
Environment
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Protecting biodiversity Premium
Quarrying limestone for cement can result in global extinctions of little-known biodiversity if appropriate surveys are not undertaken prior to the quarry opening and if impact ...
Multi-component cements Premium
Given increasingly-stringent environmental legislation, cement producers are actively seeking to reduce their CO2 emissions. One way of lowering such emissions is by reducing th...
MACT compliance: back to basics Premium
Fundamental changes are taking place in the US cement industry with regards to emissions control regulations or Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) which will lay the f...
Iraq’s sustainable development Premium
As a global company, Lafarge has committed to lighten its environmental footprint worldwide. Its industrial ecology concept comes as an answer to some environmental challenges l...
Celitement – an alternative Premium
It is apparent that cement companies are actively searching for ways to reduce their CO 2 emission levels and their energy consumption in the pursuit of more efficient productio...
Cement under the EU ETS Premium
The 2005 European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) covers some 11,300 factories and power stations across 10 industrial sectors in 30 countries, involving almost half of Eur...
Sustained efforts Premium
With global climate change on the top of the agenda, cement companies are making sustained efforts to reduce their environmental footprints. ICR reviews the latest offering of c...
Threat or opportunity? Premium
As the US Environmental Protection Agency gears up to introduce new environmental protection legislation, the local cement industry assesses the potential impact and vocalises i...