Cement News tagged: Environmental
Ignites to supply green electricity to Akmenes Cementas
Smart energy solutions company Ignites will supply electricity generated by its wind farm in Mažeikiai to Akmenes Cementas , Lithuania. Ignites and Akmenes Cementas, which is owned by German building materials producer, Schwenk Cement Beteiligungen, signed a four-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for Ignites to start supplying electricity in 2026. This is the largest PPA Ignites ha...
Blowouts at Irish Cement spark calls for action
Following a recent early morning blowout at Irish Cement , a subsidiary of CRH Plc , that left local residents waking to cars and property coated in white dust, calls have been made for action from the Council. At this month’s Metropolitan area meeting, Social Democrats councillor Elisa O’Donovan proposed the immediate establishment of a community liaison committee for the Mungret, Rahe...
National Renewable Energy Laboratory welcomes industry and government leaders
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) hosted its second annual Cement and Concrete Decarbonisation Meeting on 30-31 July 2024 at its South Table Mountain Campus, focussing on one of the cement industry's biggest challenges: reducing carbon emissions. Cement production, a critical component in concrete, is responsible for approximately eight per cent of global CO 2 emissions, making ...
COP28 initiative says low demand for green products is deterring investment
Low demand for green products is deterring the necessary investment of up to US$700bn in low-carbon projects within carbon-intensive industries such as steel, aluminium and cement, according to an initiative from the UN Climate Summit. More than 450 major industrial projects worldwide are seeking hundreds of billions of dollars in investment to reduce carbon emissions, according to a state...
Green Island Cement oyster shell cement cuts landfill waste
Green Island Cement is taking the natural resource of oyster shells, which are 91 per cent limestone, to use them as the main ingredient in cement production. By upcycling oyster shells, Green Island Cement is diverting the shells from landfill. In 2023 a total of 3300t of oysters were imported into Hong Kong. Approximately, seven per cent of the island’s greenhouse gases are from food waste....
Titan Group aligns financial strategy with emission reductions targets
Titan Group has announced the launch of a Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework, aligning the group’s financial strategy with its GHG emission reduction targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The company hopes this framework will accelerate its sustainable growth. Through this alignment, Titan hopes to show its enduring commitment to upholding responsible ...
ECan receives complaints about cement dust
Environment Canterbury (ECan), in New Zealand, has received complaints about cement dust emanating from Timaru’s port. There have been concerns about the potential health effects of the cement dust from residents. The site at the port is operated by PrimePort and Holcim NZ Ltd (part of Holcim Group ), with resource consents granted by ECan. PrimePort’s consent applies to the main wharves, inc...
FEhS Institute welcomes EU Commission 2024-29 guidelines
The Germany-based FEhS Building Materials Institute has welcomed the EU Commission's 2024-29 policy guidelines regarding new legislation on the circular economy to improve the use of alternative raw materials and optimise public procurement. "The FEhS Building Materials Institute considers the planned measures in the EU Commission's Political Guidelines 2024-2029 to be trendsetting. In many ...
Denmark’s first CO2 storage facility ready to store large volumes of CO2
Project Greensand, Denmark’s CO2 storage facility in the North Sea subsoil, is ready to receive large amounts of CO 2 . The project is now awaiting the Danish authorities' approval for permanent storage, with an ambition that Greensand will be the first operational CO 2 storage facility in the EU and will start storing CO 2 by the end of 2025 The 23 partners behind Project Greensand have no...
Argos Panama’s strive for carbon neutrality
Argos Panama (part of Cementos Argos SA ) is committed to making the construction of housing and infrastructure more sustainable. Gustavo Uribe, CEO of Argos Central America, highlights that this approach is reflected in a portfolio of environmentally responsible products manufactured in Panama’s first carbon-neutral cement plant. The company has been able to achieve such sustainability goa...
Cambridge University research proposes cement recycling
Cyrille Dunant, a materials scientist at Cambridge University, is one of a team of scientists working on a method to recycle cement and reduce the environmental impact of the construction industry. Dunant said, “Cement manufacturing emits CO 2 for two reasons: One is that to make it you need to burn coal to produce heat, or maybe gas or some other kind of fuel. And the other reason is the lim...
Heidelberg Materials' Slite plant secures SEK70.8 in green funding
Heidelberg Materials Sweden (formerly Cementa) has secured SEK70.8m (US$6.9m) in funding to invest in switchgear at its Slite plant in Gotland, Sweden. The funding, allocated by the EU and the Danish Agency for Growth, aims to support the site’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. The new switchgear will enable the company to improve overall efficiency of its electrical systems...
Votorantim invests US$12m in Oural solid fuel plant
Votorantim Cementos España (VCE) plans to build a US$12m solid recovered fuel (SRF) facility in its integrated plant in Oural , Spain, according to the newspaper El Progreso. The plant will generate approximately 85,000t of SRF from municipal, industrial and commercial waste that cannot be recycled. However, total capacity would be 163,800tpa. The facility will include 5820m 2 of warehou...
Taiheiyo Cement Corporation’s Carbofix blocks adopted for public works
Roadway interlocking concrete blocks and property boundary concrete blocks, both made from Taiheiyo Cement Group ’s CARBOFIX ® cement, have been adopted for a municipal public works project of Fukaya City, Saitama, Japan. This marks the first time that a poured-in concrete product made of CARBOFIX cement has been put in practical use. The CARBOFIX cement has reduced the amount of CO 2 em...
Seven companies to work on Japanese advanced CCS projects
Taiheiyo Cement Corp , ITOCHU Corp, Nippon Steel Corp, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, INPEX Corp, Taisei Corp and ITOCHU Oil Exploration Co Ltd were selected by the Japan Organisation for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) to conduct engineering design work for Japanese advanced CCS projects. The Japanese government has chosen CCS as an important means for decarbonisation that must be ...
New ISO co-processing standard
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published a new standard, ISO 4349:2024 for the “Determination of the recycling index for co-processing. The standard introduces a globally-accepted methodology to calculate the share of solid recovered fuels recycled in cement kilns. This share, the recycling index (R-index) is calculated on the basis of the ash content and ash co...