Cement News tagged under: MSW
Heracles acquires solid waste management and recycling firm17 January 2024, Published under Cement NewsWATT Recycling a solid waste management and recycling company has been acquired by Heracles Group of Greece. With this acquisition, Heracles Group ( Holcim ) incorporates two state-of-the-art material recovery facilities in Fyli and Koropi, Attica, with a processing capacity of over 150,000tpa of municipal waste. The recycling plants recover recyclable materials such as paper, plastics, metals, as well as the production of secondary fuels. Heracles Group aims to combine both WATT Recycl... |
Holcim Argentina to set up household waste processing plant in Mendoza18 July 2022, Published under Cement NewsHolcim (Argentina) SA will set up a household waste processing plant in Las Heras, Mendoza province, Argentina, to process waste into an alternative fuel for Holcim’s cement plants. The project represents an investment of around US$10m. Commissioning is expected in 2023. Holcim currently uses on average 15 per cent alternative fuels to run its kilns in Argentina. However, in Mendoza, where Holcim has been co-processing disused tyres and industrial waste, that share falls to four per cent... |
BMH Technology Oy wins MSW to RDF project order in Vietnam17 February 2022, Published under Cement NewsBMH Technology Oy will supply a Tyrannosaurus ® waste-to-fuel plant to TTCL Vietnam Corp Ltd as the main EPC Contractor in Bắc Ninh province, Vietnam. The line will process municipal solid waste (MSW) collected in Bắc Ninh province, separate recyclables and refine the rejects into RDF. The delivery by BMH will be part of a waste-to-energy power plant that is being built for Thang Long Energy Environment JSC. The plant is designed to handle a total of 600tpd of fresh MSW and indu... |
Geocycle wins CII 3R award for MSW management07 December 2021, Published under Cement NewsGeocycle, the in-house waste management arm of Ambuja Cements Ltd and ACC Ltd, has been conferred with the prestigious CII 3R Award under the category of 'Excellence in Managing Municipal Solid Waste'. It has been undertaking various projects to collect and co-process segregated municipal solid waste and plastic waste across the country. Geocycle was recognised for its various interventions to foster sustainable solutions for waste generated from different industries, municipalities, t... |
Gasin Cement’s road to RDF19 October 2021, Published under Cement NewsFaruk Investment Group (FIG) has recently launched a mechanical biological treatment facility in the city of Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq. The project aims to tackle the issue of uncontrolled municipal solid waste by converting it into refuse-derived fuel, thereby providing FIG-owned Gasin Cement Co with an alternative fuel source and reducing the environmental impact of waste disposal in the region. By Eng Mohammed Fareed Al Saedi, Faruk Group, Iraq, and Eng Jan Gressmann, Eggersmann Anlagen... |
The value of co-processing21 May 2021, Published under Cement NewsThis week, the European cement association, Cembureau held an open webinar on 'A circular and carbon neutral Europe: The role of co-processing'. The webinar not only looked at how co-processing works and the use of different waste streams, but also considered key policy measures and co-processing's contribution to the wider Green Deal initiative. The Green Deal Peter Wessman, legal officer at the Directorate of Environment, European Commission (EC), argued that the central pillars of the ... |
Eggersmann Group commissions new RDF/MSW plant08 April 2021, Published under Cement NewsEggersmann Group has completed the commissioning of the Middle East's first RDF bio-drying project. The 300tpd RDF plant is situated in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. The facility is also capable of processing 1040tpd (380,000tpa) of municipal solid waste, reaching an overall landfill diversion up more than 80 per cent through the inclusion of biological drying. The client, a local cement producer, negotiated a 20-year agreement for receiving waste from the municipality at the agreed tipping fee ... |
INSEE Cement quarry identified for MSW project11 September 2019, Published under Cement NewsINSEE Cement of Siam City Cement (Lanka) Ltd is being asked to provide land for the Metro Colombo Solid Waste Management (MCSWM) project in Aruwakkalu, Sri Lanka. The proposed site has been identified and is located adjacent to the railhead of the limestone quarry in Aruwakkalu, Puttalam. The government envisages implementing a sanitary landfill using the abandoned and worked-out limestone quarry pits in to dispose about 1200tpd of municipal solid waste (MSW). The area under the landfill w... |
RDF production and utilisation in India07 December 2017, Published under Cement NewsThe production of refuse-derived fuels (RDFs) from municipal solid waste (MSW) offers one solution to address the growing waste issue in countries with increasing populations such as India. At the same time, these RDFs enable the cement industry to substitute fossil fuels and reduce its CO2 emissions. By Palash Kumar Saha and Dr Kåre Helge Karstensen, SINTEF, Norway, and Kannan Vairavan and Vinoth Balakumar, CII-GBC, India. Input waste quality for RDF and compost production at Ramky E... |
Wonder Cement signs MSW MoU18 September 2017, Published under Cement NewsIndia-based Wonder Cement has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the municipal council of Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, regarding the use of municipal waste to fuel its cement kiln. According to the MoU, the council will arrange door-to-door waste collection, waste segregation and will transport the dry and plastic waste to the cement producer’s cement works in Nimbahera to be used as alternative fuel. “The primary environmental benefit of solid waste fuel comes from the red... |