Cement News tagged: Environmental
Bellona encouraged by EU's directive for embodied carbon of buildings
Climate and sustainability foundation, Bellona, says it is encouraging to see the EU take decisive action on the built environment and embodied carbon following the European Parliament’s passing of its Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) recast. This legislation addresses embodied carbon and whole-life greenhouse gas emissions (both embodied and operational emissions). U...
SaltX Technology has patent awarded for EAC
SaltX Technology has developed an electrified solution for the industrial process of calcination and has now been granted a patent for its electric calcination technology in Sweden. The Electric Arc Calciner (EAC) solution replaces fossil fuels with renewable electricity and isolates the CO 2 released from the material during heating. The innovation provides an entirely emission-free ma...
GCCA launches 2nd Innovandi Open Challenge
The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has launched its second Innovandi Open Challenge and this year is asking for start-ups to team up with the cement industry to develop innovations for new materials and ingredients for low carbon concrete to accelerate the race to net zero. Start-up businesses from outside the cement and concrete sector are being invited to put forward their...
IKN completes test runs of calcium looping trials
After successfully finishing CLEANKER’s test-runs of the entrained Calcium Looping (CaL) system at Vernaca cement plant in Italy, the complete project will be presented to the public at the 9th HTSLCN conference at Piacenza this week. During this workshop IKN will present its plant design for the CLEANKER pilot project and the first steps towards scaling up to a full-size cement plan...
Hanson UK welcomes GBP20bn Government decarbonisation commitment
Hanson UK's CEO, subsidiary of Heidelberg Materials , has welcomed the UK Government's GBP20bn (US$24.1bn/EUR22.8bn) investment commitment to decarbonise heavy industry. Simon Willis, Hanson UK 's CEO, said: “We welcome the Government’s Green Energy Reset announcement and its ongoing commitment to carbon capture and storage (CCS), which is essential for the cement industry to decarbonise....
13 UltraTech mines receive 5-star rating
UltraTech Cement Ltd has announced that 13 of its mines received five-star ratings for year 2021-22 from the Indian Bureau of Mines at the 75 th anniversary celebrations of the Indian Bureau of Mines. These are the highest number of five-star ratings awarded to any company in India across all sectors. Conceptualised by the Ministry of Mines, the star ratings are based on adoption of...
Starlinger releases its first sustainability report
Starlinger, the Vienna-based machine manufacturer and woven plastic bag producer, has presented the first sustainability report for the year 2022. It provides information about the CSR policy that Starlinger has included in its corporate strategy, and measures the company has already implemented. Clarissa Graf has been responsible for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Starling...
Carbon Clean to expand North American presence
Carbon Clean, a leading global carbon capture solutions business, has announced a significant expansion in North America to meet booming demand for its carbon capture technology. The company has opened its US headquarters in Houston, Texas and will double its US headcount to meet demand for CycloneCC, its fully modular technology, in what is expected to become its biggest market. The Inf...
Cockburn Cement fined for odour breaches
Cockburn Cement Ltd (CCL) has been fined AUD290,000 (US$191,000) for odour breaches from its Munster cement plant, according to the Government of Western Australia. The company was charged with six counts of causing unreasonable odour between January and April 2019, contravening the Environmental Protection Act 1986. The company pleaded not guilty to the charges. According to the witne...
Progressive Planet launches PozGlass pilot plant
Canada-based Progressive Planet, a CleanTech and manufacturing company specialising in the creation of planet-friendly products, has announced that it will be building a pilot plant to produce up to 3200tpa of PozGlass™ 100G, a CleanTech low carbon cement that can dramatically reduce the cement industry’s carbon footprint. Made from 100 per cent post-consumer glass, PozGlass replaces carb...
Geminor HUB supplying Aalborg Cement has record year
Geminor's waste treatment HUB in Aalborg, Denmark, processed 99,538t of waste in 2022. Last year, the waste treated in the Aalborg HUB went to 10 different off-takers, the biggest being the Aalborg Portland cement factory which receives tailor-made SRF as secondary fuel. The Aalborg HUB was actually closed down in 2019 due to low activity but was soon after moved to a bigger location a...
Holcim Switzerland start deliveries with Hugelshofer Logistik electric truck
A fully-electric truck from Hugelshofer Logistik AG is supplementing Holcim Switzerland’s fleet of electric vehicles and delivering cement quietly and without CO 2 emissions to concrete plants in Thurgau. Electric mobility is an important step for Holcim Switzerland in the development of its sustainable transport solutions. “Two years ago, Holcim was one of the first building material...
Lafarge Canada fined for dust pollution
Lafarge Canada Inc has been fined CAD$200,000 (US$145,395) for breaching the Environmental Protection Act, reports The Intelligencer. In October 2019 clinker dust from the company’s Highway 33 cement plant in Loyalist, Ontario, was blown onto cars, homes and lawns in Bath, a village lying 3km away from the plant. An investigation into the incident, led by the Ministry of Environment, r...
Heidelberg Materials at White House decarbonisation roundtable
Heidelberg Materials was invited by the White House to join a wide range of industrial sector executives and labour leaders for a productive roundtable conversation to discuss innovation and ways to accelerate industrial decarbonisation on 3 March. The meeting centred around ways that the US administration can support both private and public investments in reducing carbon emissions while...
Vassiliko Cement to build new alternative fuel storage site
The Environment Service has given the go ahead for a designated new alternative fuels storage site a year after a fire destroyed Vassiliko Cement plant’s original storage yard. The new site will be in Larnaca district’s Tochni, about halfway between the cities of Larnaca and Limassol, with the designated fenced site situated within an industrial zone, Philenews reports. The block ...
Carbon Upcycling and A3&Co® sign strategic partnership
Carbon Upcycling has signed a strategic partnership with A 3 &Co ® to support Carbon Upcycling’s engineering and project delivery. The partnership sets the foundation for Carbon Upcycling and A 3 &Co ® to pave the future of low-carbon concrete and the development of a circular economy. The partnership comes at a critical moment as Carbon Upcycling expands its operati...