Cement News tagged under: Alternative Fuels
N+P Group completes Niramax Group Ltd acquisition22 June 2023, Published under Cement NewsN+P Group (N+P) has announced the completion of an asset purchase agreement for the assets of Niramax Group Ltd Hartlepool, a waste-processing facility. The deal excludes the tyre recycling facility, which is a separate Hartlepool-based company. With the signing of this deal, N+P expands its footprint in the Northeast of the UK with a site capable of processing 300,000t of non-recyclable waste per year, which will continue to support its existing customers and produce various grades of alte... |
Republic Cement works with landfill company to divert waste19 June 2023, Published under Cement NewsPilotage, a sanitary landfill located in San Pedro, Laguna, Philippines, is adopting innovative segregation and diversion techniques to recover valuable materials, including recyclable plastics, metal and tin cans, glass bottles, and residual plastic waste, from the waste stream. This waste is then diverted to the appropriate recycling facilities or for co-processing at cement plants. In early April Pilotage resident Dan Miranda visited Republic Cement ’s Teresa plant to further und... |
Geocycle to build new Cumberland alternative fuel facility13 June 2023, Published under Cement NewsGeocycle US and Allegany County Department of Economic & Community Development are excited to announce a multi-year lease agreement for a 40,000ft 2 facility in the Barton Business Park, Cumberland, Maryland, USA. The lease will allow Geocycle to establish a new state-of-the-art preprocessing facility in the Mid-Atlantic region that will serve the needs of industrial customers in the area and reinforce their commitment to transition toward a more integrated circular economy. The... |
thyssenkrupp Polysius advise KCA representatives on alternative fuels09 June 2023, Published under Cement NewsDr Luc Rudowski, head of innovation, and Dr Uwe Maas, head of pyroprocessing technology at thysssenkrupp Poylusis, were recently pleased to receive representatives from the Korean Cement Association (KCA) and the Korean press at the thyssenkrupp Polysius site in Neubeckum, Germany. They also visited the Phoenix Cement plant to explore the use of alternative fuels in cement production and the decarbonisation of the European cement industry. Upon their visit, the KCA highlighted the... |
Suez Cement invests millions in sustainability targets06 June 2023, Published under Cement NewsSuez Cement , part of the Heidelberg Materials Group , continues to invest heavily in its environmental sustainability efforts. According to the company, since 2010 it has spent US$60m on technology to lower dust emissions throughout its operations, resulting in an 80 per cent reduction in dust emissions by the end of 2020, compared to the company’s 2012 baseline. A further US$16m was invested in non-fossil-based fuels with the installation of alternative fuel (AF) technology in its pla... |
Holcim Alpena opens new TDF unit02 June 2023, Published under Cement NewsHolcim has opened a new whole-tyre co-processing facility at its Alpena plant in Michigan, USA. The US$7.4m state-supported investment is expected to convert 22,000tpa of tyres into energy to help fuel the company’s cement plant. The tyre-derived fuel (TDF) will initially account for ~10 per cent of the cement plant’s thermal requirement. Construction on the TDF facility started in August 2022, partly funded by a US$3m grant from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Ene... |
SIG to plant red calliandra for biomass fuel29 May 2023, Published under Cement NewsSIG 's Corporate Secretary, Vita Mahreyni, has explained that currently his company is increasing the use of alternative fuels as environmentally-friendly new renewable energy through the planting of more than 143,000 red calliandra (Calliandra calothyrsus) trees . Red calliandra has the potential to be used as carbon-neutral biomass-based alternative energy. “Red calliandra not only has a beautiful appearance but is also rich in benefits. This plant from Guatemala is the best raw ma... |
UltraTech Cement to employ Coolbrook decarbonisation technology26 May 2023, Published under Cement NewsUltraTech Cement Ltd and Coolbrook, a transformational technology and engineering company, will jointly develop a project to implement Coolbrook’s RotoDynamic Heater TM (RDH) technology in one of UltraTech’s cement manufacturing units. The RDH technology uses electrification from renewable sources for the heating processes in cement production and removes the need to use fossil fuels, thus helping to accelerate the decarbonisation of cement manufacturing. The successful implementation ... |
Continental Cement orders FLSmidth FUELFLEX® Pyrolyzer24 May 2023, Published under Cement NewsHaving been impressed with the first pre-commercial installation of the F UELFLEX ® Pyrolyzer at the Mannok cement plant in Ireland, Continental Cement ( Summit Materials Inc ) has awarded FLSmidth a contract for the first commercial installation of this new technology at its Davenport cement plant in Buffalo, Iowa, USA. The F UELFLEX Pyrolyzer, a significant lever in FLSmidth’s Green’26 strategy, enables cement plants to replace fossil fuels with waste-derived fuels in the calciner.... |
WhiteLabel-TandemProjects enters JV with MMe24 May 2023, Published under Cement NewsWhiteLabel-TandemProjects (WLTP) has entered into a joint venture with German engineering-firm MMe GmbH to sell MMe’s sampling device for solid alternative fuels. MMe produces the only automatic sampling device for solid alternative fuels that is tested by the Federal Quality Association for Secondary Fuels (Bundesgütegemeinschaft Sekundärbrennstoffe e.V.) and is working according to the European standard CEN/TC. “This robust automatic sampling system can be used safely and worldwid... |