Cement News tagged: Environmental
Plant, regulators cement cleanup deal
Current and former owners and operators of a cement plant have come to an agreement with federal and state environmental regulators over what federal officials call "chronic air pollution violations"
Essroc wins enviro award
It took seven years for Essroc Italcementi Group to propose and then build a conveyor belt at its Nazareth-area plants, but it took less than a year for the project to earn industrywide praise. The P
Mexico Cemex projects its own wind station
Mexico’s cement maker Cemex is to utilise wind poower of the Istmo de Tehuantepec to install a wind mega-station in Juchitan de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, which will have a generation capacity of 250 megawatts
DOE and Lafarge reach agreement
US Department of Environmental Quality Director Steven E. Chester today announced that the agency has reached an agreement with Lafarge Midwest over allowable mercury levels from the company’s A
Burning tyres in Puerto Rico
US environmental regulators have granted a permit to a division of Cemex to burn used tyres for fuel at a plant in the southern Puerto Rican city of Ponce, officials and the company said Thursday. The
What do emission caps mean for California?
California Portland Cement Co had planned to build more plants this year but put its expansion on hold as it awaits a decision by state lawmakers that the company says could force it to cut production
Apasco boosts sustainable construction
Based on the guidelines issued from offices of Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, in Switzerland, the company is attempting to boost a sustainable construction culture among its customers
UK Cemex improving its environmental performan
Cemex is now testing a form of processed household waste called Climafuel at its Rugby plant. Sustainability director Dr David Evans explains:
New EPA energy standards will increase plant efficiency
The first-ever energy-efficiency ratings for cement plants will enable those industries to cut energy usage, save money and prevent greenhouse gases
Anger over visit to German cement plant
Top officials from Rugby are travelling to Germany as part of an investigation into plans to burn household waste at the town’s cement factory.
Tyre and slag burning at Trident almost ready to start
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) recently released drafts of its long-awaited Environmental Impact Statement and air quality permit to allow Holcim to burn 1.13 million scrap tire
Villagers to get compensation
JP Cement has decided to compensate residents of Bhalag village for their loss due to dumping of debris from their construction sites into the village river, resulting in the flooded streamwashing awa
Swiss-Vietnam clean project
The first phase of a cooperation project on clean air between Vietnam and Switzerland was launched in Hanoi on August 8. The purpose of the first phase of the Switzerland-Vietnam Clean Air Programme i
California set to improve its environmental credent
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (along with the legislature) has a chance to make California a world leader in reducing global warming. The Global Warming Solutions Act, or AB 32, would place limits on ca
No to coal in Idaho
Gov. Jim Risch signed an order that essentially keeps mercury-emitting coal-fired power plants out of Idaho. "I have concluded that it is unwise and imprudent to opt into the federal mercury program,"
First Wallboard Manufacturer to Partner with GRA
USG was the first wallboard manufacturer to contract with GRA’s parent company, Gypsum Recycling International, to purchase reprocessed gypsum for the production of new wallboard. GRA’s fi