Cement News tagged under: Cementa
Cementa prepares groundwork for 2030 electricity supply at Slite plant24 April 2023, Published under Cement NewsCementa ( Heidelberg Materials ) is working purposefully in three areas to enable the transition to its carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at its Slite plant by 2030. The plant will need significantly more electricity, which will place great demands on the company as part of Gotland's electricity system as well as on the collaborations on which Cementa depend. Cementa is working to produce cement with as little energy as possible. Energy efficiency is also a decisive fact... |
Work accelerates on Slite CCS plant22 February 2023, Published under Cement NewsCementa ( Heidelberg Materials group ) is accelerating work to establish a full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility on Gotland, Sweden. The project, Slite CCS, is one of Sweden's most comprehensive climate change initiatives and is now being planned in a feasibility study. The goal is to transform the Swedish cement industry by 2030. When the CCS facility is ready in 2030, it will capture and store the Slite plant's total emissions of upwards of 1.8Mt aof CO 2 . This correspo... |
Cementa to develop water treatment plant13 January 2023, Published under Cement NewsCementa ( Heidelberg Materials ) plans a new water treatment plant to strengthen the drinking water supply in northern Gotland, Sweden. In the autumn of 2022, Cementa commissioned and tested a miniature water plant in the roof to evaluate technology and construction before the full-scale water plant is being built. The pilot plant, which has been in operation since last September at Filehajdar, is a smaller-scale model of a fully-functioning water treatment plant, about one-tenth t... |
The electrified commercial cement kiln06 January 2023, Published under Cement NewsLast year, the US signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, the most significant climate legislation in US history. The IRA will provide some US$500bn in new spending and tax breaks, with nearly US$400bn directed towards carbon emissions reduction and funding clean energy. A reported US$5.8bn is earmarked for industrial decarbonisation. For the cement sector it represents a great opportunity in North America to invest in new technology to decarbonise and cement kiln elect... |
Cementa gets go-ahead for Gotland quarry14 December 2022, Published under Cement NewsA Swedish court has given Cementa the green light to continue mining limestone at its quarry on the island of Gotland, heading off the risk of a shortage of cement in the building industry, reports Reuters. Cementa, which is part of Heidelberg Materials , has been clashing with local groups over plans to extend mining on Gotland, where the company produces about 75 per cent of the cement used in Sweden. The court said in a statement that it had decided that a nearby nature reserve, pro... |
Cementa's time-limited extraction permit stands08 December 2022, Published under Cement NewsThe Supreme Administrative Court (HFD) has decided that the time-limited extraction permit, which the government announced to Cementa ( Heidelberg Materials ) in the fall of 2021, must stand. HFD made the assessment that the government's decision on a time-limited permit does not contravene any legal rule. This means that limestone quarrying and cement production in Slite can continue as planned for the rest of the year. Cementa's previous permit to mine limestone in Slite expired ... |
Cementa releases 2022 economic report21 September 2022, Published under Cement NewsCementa has released its economic report 2022. This year's economic report presents an unusual number of uncertainties surrounding the international economic situation, which makes this year's forecast particularly uncertain, says the Swedish cement producer. The report confirms that in the domestic market, Cementa is facing a sharp slowdown in the construction of apartment buildings in the near future, but with a slight increase in 2024. When it comes to premises and offices, the pace ... |
Cementa's application for a short mining permit continues11 July 2022, Published under Cement NewsCementa ( HeidelbergCement group ) submitted its application for a shorter mining permit of four years to the Land and Environment Court in April this year. Authorities, associations and the general public have since been able to take part in the application and submit comments on it. Cementa has taken note of the opinions submitted by a dozen authorities and associations, such as SGU (the state's expert authority regarding groundwater and mineral extraction), the Swedish Environment... |
Cementa wants climate-positive cement for National Transport Plan15 June 2022, Published under Cement NewsCementa has responded to the National Transport Plan of Sweden until 2033, recently announced by Tomas Eneroth, Minister of Infrastructure, arguing that new infrastructure should be built with climate-positive cement. Karin ComStedt Webb, VP of HeidelbergCement Sweden, said, “Until now, I believe that we in Sweden have often taken cement and concrete for granted and that it should always be available. But for Sweden to continue to be self-sufficient in our most important building mater... |
HeidelbergCement steps up Slite CCS project01 June 2022, Published under Cement NewsFollowing positive results from a pre-feasibility study, HeidelbergCement and its Swedish subsidiary Cementa are taking their carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at the Slite cement plant in Sweden to the next stage. The installation on the Swedish island of Gotland will now be scaled up to capture up to 1.8Mta of CO 2 , equal to the plant’s total emissions and equivalent to three per cent of the country’s total emissions. In terms of capturing the CO 2 , the pre-feasibility study fo... |