Despite increasing market demand for cement in recent decades, the cement industry is required to reduce its carbon footprint. Elemental analysis can make a key contribution to this drive to lower CO2 emissions from cement plants worldwide. By Ivo Nemetz, Elementar, Germany.
As the global cement industry moves forward as a 21st-century enterprise, it must carefully balance two seemingly opposing objectives. On the one hand, cement continues to represent a key building block for societal development, necessitating ever-increasing production rates. Meanwhile, on the other hand, the sector is under growing pressure to reduce its carbon footprint amid mounting fears of an imminent climate catastrophe.
