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Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies signs low-carbon house contract

30 September 2020, Published under Cement News

Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies, a pioneer in low-carbon cement, has announced the signing of a pilot contract for the use of its low-carbon cement with Immobilière 3F and Groupe GCC. Immobilière 3F, the leading player in social housing in France, has teamed up with Hoffmann Green partner GCC for a pilot contract to experiment with the use of low-carbon cements in the construction of 85 social housing units in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, on the northern edge of the Paris suburbs. The goal o...

Freightliner wins Tarmac train haulage contract

29 September 2020, Published under Cement News

Freightliner has announced that it has been awarded a new contract with Tarmac to haul trains from Tarmac’s Tunstead site, Derbyshire, and services from Tarmac’s West Country quarries. Deliveries will be made to Wales, Somerset and Herefordshire. The new contract will see Freightliner run an average of 50 trains a week, taking bulk materials, including aggregates and cement, for use in regional and national projects.   "We are delighted to have been awarded this new contract with T...

BillerudKorsnäs reduces CO2 emissions by 5.4Mta

29 September 2020, Published under Cement News

A study led by Peter Holmgren, forestry specialist and former Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), shows that BillerudKorsnäs' sales of cardboard, paper and pulp contribute to an annual reduction of 5.4Mt of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This corresponds to the annual greenhouse gas emissions from the entire Swedish steel industry, or one third of all domestic transport in Sweden.    The figure also includes the negative climate impact from t...

CTP Team wins an EPC contract with Secil Group for a WHR system

28 September 2020, Published under Cement News

Italy's CTP Team has signed a turnkey EPC contract with Secil Group for a new WHR system at Outão Cement factory in Portugal. The project consists of providing a customised solution to feed a double-loop system (thermal oil + Organic), to recover waste heat and produce electricity from three different sources: the kiln pre-heater, clinker cooler of the existing 4000tpd cement unit, and a new solar field that Secil will install nearby to the production line.   The new heat exchangers by...

Lindner Recyclingtech holds groundbreaking ceremony for new headquarters

28 September 2020, Published under Cement News

Waste process and shredding technology specialists, Linder-Recyclingtech celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony for its new factory premises on 18 September 2020. The company is investing in a new site covering over 45,000m 2 at Spittal an der Drau, Austria. In addition to a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, the new headquarters will become an international Centre of Excellence for waste recovery and recycling – in keeping with the circular economy concept. "At the moment, the ...

Quinn Industrial Holdings to change name to Mannok

28 September 2020, Published under Cement News

Quinn Industrial Holdings and the Quinn Building Products and Quinn Packaging  brands are rebranding to Mannok after tthe culmination of a five-year transformation programme and investment programme. "We are extremely pleased to unveil Mannok as our new brand identity, which we believe better reflects the ownership, evolution and future focus of our business. It marks a major milestone for us following a five-year transformation programme that has empowered our staff and repositioned our bu...

Cemtech sets out to digitally optimise the cement sector

25 September 2020, Published under Cement News

The fourth and final day of Cemtech’s decarbonisation conference featured two sessions on the digital plant and energy process optimisation. The morning began with Javier García Sedano, Optimitive CEO, speaking on real-time optimisation 4.0 of cement factories throughput, energy and quality. He argued the way forward for the cement industry with "RTO-based AI systems using non-linear models learned from process data and automatically updated." For VRMs, for example, Mr Sedano concluded...

Cemex's targets 55% fall in CO2 emissions in Europe by 2030

25 September 2020, Published under Cement News

Cemex SAB de CV has announced that it is the first company in the cement sector to target a CO 2 reduction in its European operations of at least 55 per cent by 2030. Cemex welcomes the recent commitment from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s landmark State of the Union address and is pleased to align with the new European Union (EU) aspirations and targets.  Cemex's European operations expect to reach the target of a 35 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from ceme...

Brevik one-step away from full industrial start-up of carbon capture

22 September 2020, Published under Cement News

The Norwegian government has proposed to parliament that Norcem's Brevik plant begins its industrial-scale carbon capture project. With 400,000t of CO 2 to be captured annually and transported for permanent storage, HeidelbergCement is planning to realise at its Brevik plant the first industrial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at a cement production facility in the world. The proposal of the Norwegian government is the second last step in the approval process for the project...

HeidelbergCement Schelklingen plant receives Germany's highest bucket elevator

21 September 2020, Published under Cement News

Germany-based Beumer Group has commissioned Germany’s highest bucket elevator at HeidelbergCement’s Schelklingen plant near Ulm. The order is part of a project by thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions to modernise the cement works and comply with new emission limit values. As part of the thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions project, a new preheater tower was built at the HeidelbergCement’plant. The Beumer Group bucket elevator is used to feed raw meal to the kiln. This high-capacity belt bucket el...