Cement News tagged: Environmental
Multinationals join quest for zero-carbon building
A corporate-led project aimed at making zero-energy buildings a reality worldwide swelled its ranks with nine more multinationals joining in the effort this week.
Lafarge designs new tear- and weather-resistant bag
A solution to the age-old problem of damaged cement bags is being rolled out across the UK next month by Lafarge.
Cemex hits back over ’misleading’ claims
Rugby’s cement plant has been named in a pollution black list by an environmental magazine.
Emissions cap may put lid on plants
A plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions could mean cement plants, the biggest producers of carbon dioxide in the High Desert, will have to freeze production at current levels,
Holcim Indonesia denies conflict of interest
PT Holcim Indonesia, the third largest cement maker in the country, said in a disclosure to the stock exchange, that it followed all the correct procedures when securing a waste management project fro
Indocement’s CDM reaches final stage
PT Indocement said that the implementation of its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project had reached the final stage. Sources at Indocement said that the CDM project started in 2005 had now reached
Safety concerns hinder possible enviro deal
Californian cement companies are reportedly working with state transportation officials on a pact to lower the level of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced during cement manufacturing in the state
Expert cautions building industry against using cement
The Malaysian construction industry must come up with a ‘greener’ alternative for cement because producing a tonne of cement causes an equal tonnage of carbon dioxide to be released into the atmospher
Kilns being pressed to cut emissions
From a remote site in the heart of Bavaria, in southern Germany, the modest Solnhofen cement plant is claimed as a model for reducing pollution. The technology’s success in Germany, using SCR technolo
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