Cement News tagged: Environmental
Indocement starts work on 15MW solar power plant
Indocement officially commenced the operation of the ground-mounted solar power plant at its Tarjun factory in Indonesia on 22 May 2024. The inauguration was attended by Chairman of the Managing Board of Heidelberg Material, Dr Dominik Von Achten, Member of the Managing Board of Heidelberg Materials , Roberto Callieri, President Director of Indocement, Christian Kartawijaya, Director of I...
Sublime Systems supplies One Boston Wharf
US-based Sublime Systems has supplied its low-carbon Sublime Cement to One Boston Wharf, a new net-zero carbon office building in Boston, USA. Being built by WS Development, One Boston Wharf is a 707,000ft 2 , 17-story building with retail outlets and restaurants on the ground floor and a 700-seater performing arts centre on the second and third floors. The building also houses 630,000ft 2 of...
Holcim El-Djazaïr and SLB collaborate on decarbonisation
Holcim El-Djazaïr and global technology company SLB are proud to announce the signing of an agreement for a collaboration framework to explore carbon capture and storage (CCS) opportunities in Algeria. The ceremony was attended by Martin Kriegner, a member of Holcim's executive committee in charge of Asia, Middle East, and Africa (MEA), and Redha Kelkouli, general manager of SLB North Afr...
Whangarei plant to be coal free by 2030
Fletcher Building’s Golden Bay company is revolutionising the cement industry at its Portland cement plant near Whangarei by replacing up to 60 per cent of coal with old tyres and treated timber, aiming to be coal-free by 2030. Using 30,000t tyres annually, New Zealand's Whangarei plant has saved 100,000t of waste from landfills and next, they plan to replace more coal with non-recyclable ...
DoE to accelerate CO2 removal with US$1.2m prize fund
As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced 24 semi-finalists to receive a total of US$1.2m to scale up their CO 2 removal technologies. Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchase Pilot Prize (CDRPPP) allows companies to compete for the opportunity to deliver CO 2 removal credits directly to D...
Dangote Cement commits to CNG trucks by 2025
Dangote Cement has pledged that all of its trucks will be operating on compressed natural gas (CNG) by the end of 2025, reports Vanguard. According to the company, investments are already being made to ensure that thousands of its delivery trucks are run on CNG as part of the federal government’s agenda on the use of alternative fuels for official vehicles. The announcement came at Dango...
Adbri releases EvoCem Type GL cement
Adbri is proud to be Australia’s first manufacturer of lower-carbon general purpose limestone Type GL cement, a proven international cement technology. Adbri EvoCem Type GL cement is produced locally in Southern Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia and Northern Territory, and has been tried and tested with over 500,000m³ of concrete placed using EvoCem in projects ranging from r...
Norm Cement to use sludge at Qizildas
Norm Cement LLC of Azerbaijan has agreed with the State Oil Co of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) to use the sludge left after drilling wells to fire its kilns as part of its circular economy drive. "In collaboration with SOCAR, we tried sludge to power Norm Sement last year. Negotiations on a long-term deal are underway. Cooperation to use industrial waste supports the country's green economy strategy...
Cementir features on “Europe's Climate Leaders 2024" list
Cementir has been included in the “Europe's Climate Leaders 2024” ranking, Europe's most climate change-focussed companies, compiled by the Financial Times in collaboration with Statista, a German research company. Cementir is one of the 600 European companies that have made the most progress in reducing their Scope 1 and 2 CO 2 emissions intensity between 2017 and 2022. Other factors ...
Brookfield plant produces clinker from recycled materials
Lafarge Canada and Geocycle Canada ( Holcim group ) are proud to announce the completion of a pilot at the Lafarge Brookfield Cement plant in Nova Scotia, Canada, to produce high-quality clinker made of recycled minerals. The recycled materials are recovered from waste sources, which can potentially reduce CO 2 level by 60 per cent per tonne of clinker. Over the past year, Lafarge Canada...
CEMEX extends Regenera to Egypt
CEMEX has signed an agreement with Gharbia Governorate to operate the first Regenera facility in Egypt. Through this agreement, CEMEX will treat more than 800tpd of municipal solid waste received to generate alternative fuels and produce compost, ensuring minimal residual waste to landfill. According to the company, this agreement supports circularity as well as the wellbeing of the gov...
Trials complete on pilot Electric Arc Furnace
The UK-based Materials Processing Institute has recently completed successful trials of its pilot Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) for the UKRI Cement2Zero project. The trials have been developing and testing the use of end-of-life cement as an EAF flux to produce steel, whilst also capturing the slag to produce clinker to manufacture zero-emissions cement. The trials began in September 2022 and in...
Indian cement industry embraces EV trucks
The Indian cement industry is piloting the use of EV trucks with the deployment of around 150 E-trucks as part of the country’s drive to promote green logistics. According to The Times of India, the country’s cement industry, which is home to a cement production capacity of around 670Mta, hopes that the use of E-trucks will help reduce operating costs as long as hurdles such as the higher cos...
CEMEX unveils first HVO-powered vehicle at Tilbury
CEMEX has unveiled its first HVO-powered (Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil) vehicle in support of its Future in Action programme, which acts as the driver for CEMEX to become a carbon net zero business by 2050. HVO is a diesel-like biofuel that can be produced without fossil resources by processing renewable waste. Itis now one of the leading alternative renewable fuels available to the constru...
CEMBUREAU publishes an update of its Net Zero Roadmap
CEMBUREAU published its Net Zero Roadmap update, on 21 May 2024, outlining the European cement sector’s climate ambition along the cement and concrete value chain. The new update include CO 2 carbon reduction targets for 2040. The roadmap update looks at the progress achieved since the publication of CEMBUREAU’s carbon neutrality roadmap in May 2020. In light of the significant decarbonisa...
Nuh Cement and ABB complete retrofit of diesel haul truck to EV
ABB has completed the retrofit conversion of a Nuh Cement -owned diesel-fuelled Euclid R85B haul truck into a fully electric, zero-emission vehicle. The two companies worked together closely to design and build this retrofit project, which is the first time in the world that a vehicle of this size and class type has been fully electrified. In addition to overall system engineering, ABB’s c...