Cement News tagged under: Environmental
FLSmidth to tap market for air pollution control equipment in China09 March 2012, Published under Cement NewsFLSmidth has achieved authority approval of its first acquisition in China. Together with a minority shareholder, FLSmidth has started a company to market and sell air pollution control products to the cement industry in China. This local company is groundbreaking for FLSmidth as it combines local presence and relations with global technologies and resources. It will make FLSmidth, overnight, a powerful player in the multibillion dollar Chinese market for environmental control technologies. ... |
Titan America receives air permit for Carolinas project, USA01 March 2012, Published under Cement NewsOfficials from Carolinas Cement Company announced that the Division of Air Quality of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NCDENR) has issued an air quality permit to parent company Titan America LLC to construct a cement plant in Castle Hayne. The issuance of the Permit comes after four years of technical review of the proposed facility to ensure it will comply with North Carolina's air quality regulations and standards. The permit was issued after extensive ... |
Strike action begins at Trinidad Cement Company28 February 2012, Published under Cement NewsAll operations at Trinidad Cement Company have shut down as the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) began strike action yesterday after wage talks collapsed. The union has rejected the company’s proposal of 6.5 per cent offer for over a three year period, and is seeking a 16 per cent wage increase. The period being negotiated is 2009 to 2011. The Trinidad Express reported Carlton Gibson, vice president of OWTU as saying that the union would not settle for a package below double digit fi... |
Oman Cement to resume Line 128 February 2012, Published under Cement NewsOman Cement Company is to resume operations at Kiln Line No 1 which was suspended last week on orders from the Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs on pollution concerns. The Oman Daily Observer reports that statement to the Muscat Securities Market the cement producer said it had “reached an agreement” with the ministry. “Based on the discussions with officials of the ministry and their understanding of all actions taken by the company to improve the environmental aspects, it ha... |
Essroc agrees to pay fine on reporting violations, USA23 February 2012, Published under Cement NewsEssroc Cement Corporation has agreed to pay a US$82,000 fine for alleged violations. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imposed the fine to settle alleged violations of toxic chemical reporting requirements at Essroc’s plant in Nazareth, PA. According to the EPA, a June 2011 inspection revealed that Essroc did not submit annual reports for lead for three years (2006-08) when the company processed lead in amounts exceeding 130,000lbs annually. The EPA highlighted that the settleme... |
HeidelbergCement Quarry Life Award22 February 2012, Published under Cement NewsThe first edition of the Quarry Life Award launched by HeidelbergCement raised strong interest from students and researchers. Over 300 project proposals will be competing in 18 countries on four continents. At the close of entries on 17 February, more than 300 projects ideas had been registered to compete for the first Quarry Life Award launched by HeidelbergCement and its national companies. Students and researchers from Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania were asked to submit a project pro... |
DG Khan waste heat project registered with UNFCCC16 February 2012, Published under Cement NewsPakistan's DG Khan Cement’s waste heat recovery project, has been registered with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for carbon credit. The project, situated at Dera Ghazi Khan, is generating 10.4MW of electricity, according to a filing with the Pakistan Stock Exchange yesterday. |
Pakistan: DG Khan Cement receives UN carbon credits15 February 2012, Published under Cement NewsDG Khan Cement Company is to receive CO2 credits from the UN for setting up its new waste heat recovery project. “The Waste Heat Recovery Project of the company situated at Dera Ghazi Khan, generating 10.4MW of electricity has been successfully registered with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for carbon credit,” said DG Khan Cement. The Pakistani cement producer stated that the project was expected to generate 33,845t of CO2 equivalent per annum for a cr... |
USA: Tehachapi cement plant has one of nation's highest mercury emission levels15 February 2012, Published under Cement NewsThe Environmental Protection Agency has rated Lehigh Southwest Cement plant’s mercury emissions as the second highest in the USA. The Lehigh Tehachapi plant produced 872lb of mercury in 2010, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory data – the most of any cement plant in California and the second highest among all cement plants in the United States. Over the years, the mercury emissions have been a particular source of concern and contention. Historica... |
USA: Lehigh proposes land swap14 February 2012, Published under Cement NewsUnder a proposal with Lehigh Southwest Cement Co, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest around Lake Shasta could grow by about 246 acres. Lehigh Southwest Cement wants to swap about 78 acres of Forest Service land near its Mountain Gate plant for about 246 acres it owns near the McCloud arm of Lake Shasta. Jim Ellison, plant manager at Lehigh, said his company has been using the 78 acres for roads under permit from the forest service for power line access and other uses, he said. He s... |