Cement News tagged under: Alternative Fuel
Lafarge Africa inaugurates AFR platform at Mfamosing plant13 November 2024, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Africa Plc has launched its new alternative fuel and raw material (AFR) platform at the Mfamosing plant in Cross River State, Nigeria, aiming to replace conventional fossil fuels with energy derived from non-recyclable waste. The initiative aligns with Lafarge’s commitment to reducing CO 2 emissions and supports Holcim Group’s global net-zero strategy. At the launch event, Lolu Alade-Akinyemi, GMD/CEO of Lafarge Africa, stated, “This facility enables us to lower CO 2 emissions... |
PT Amita Prakarsa Hijau to supply biomass to Indocement16 October 2024, Published under Cement NewsPT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa Tbk , through its subsidiary PT Sari Bhakti Sejati established a company with PT Amita Tamaris Lestari under the name PT Amita Prakarsa Hijau on 4 October 2024 in Jakarta. The establishment of this joint venture is a continuation of the signing of the MoU with AMITA in 2023. The joint venture company operates in the field of recycling industrial waste, general waste and Indonesian biomass resources where the products will be ready to be supplied as raw materi... |
Votorantim invests US$12m in Oural solid fuel plant05 September 2024, Published under Cement NewsVotorantim 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 warehouses to receive, unload, produce, store and dispatch the SRF, with minimal odour and external noise e... |
Pressure on securing alternative fuel streams to rise in the EU22 July 2024, Published under Cement NewsThe cement industry is expected to come under increased pressure to obtain valuable material for alternative fuels due to legislation in the European Union driving a shift away from waste incineration in favour of recycling. “We can expect that, as a consequence, chemical recycling will be increasingly used in the future, reducing the amount of good quality input material for the RDF channel,” says Wolfgang Köser, Stadler sales director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. “The most impor... |
Norm Cement to use sludge at Qizildas29 May 2024, Published under Cement NewsNorm Cement LLC of Azerbaijan has agreed with the State Oil Co of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) to use the sludge left after drilling wells to fire its kilns as part of its circular economy drive. "In collaboration with SOCAR, we tried sludge to power Norm Sement last year. Negotiations on a long-term deal are underway. Cooperation to use industrial waste supports the country's green economy strategy," according to an unnamed source of Trend. Norm Cement operates a 2.1Mta integrated plant in Qi... |
Votorantim Cimentos opens new waste treatment unit in Itaperuçu12 April 2024, Published under Cement NewsBrazil-based Votorantim Cimentos inaugurated its first Brazilian unit dedicated to the operations of Verdera, its sustainable waste management and disposal arms and Viter, an agricultural inputs business, in Itaperuçu. The waste treated at the Itaperuçu will be used at Votorantim Cimentos' Rio Branco do Sul plant. The BRL145m (US$28.6m) investment will house a new Verdera waste crushing plant an a new agricultural limestone production line. Verdera's new shredding plant has the capacit... |
Electrical heating technologies15 January 2024, Published under Cement NewsAs the electrification of the cement kiln process generates an increasing amount of interest, this month’s Technical Forum looks at the potential technology options that could be deployed in the push towards decarbonisation. Dr Clark asks which electrification technologies could be deployed to electrify the cement kiln process based on Cementa and Vattenfall of Sweden’s “CemZero” prefeasibility study, published in 2018 Electrification of the cement kiln process continues to a... |
UltraTech commissions solar plant at Dalla24 February 2023, Published under Cement NewsUltraTech Cement inaugurated a 9.50MWp DC solar power plant at its Dalla plant as part of drive to source its energy from 100 per cent renewable energy sources by 2050. The total power consumption of the plant is currently approximately 27MW and the new solar power plant accounts for around a third of this demand, according to Dalla’s plant manager, Rahul Saighal. It is expected that the 1MW reduction of coal-based power consumption will lower CO2 emissions by 820kg. |
Dangote donates bags for agro-waste and alternative fuel payback30 January 2023, Published under Cement NewsDangote Cement’s Ibese plant has donated 25,000 of 100kg capacity bags for management of agro-waste in communities across Nigeria. Being burned or left rotten on the fields by farmers once, agriculture waste, known as agro-waste, has turned into the best alternative fuel for industries. As an eco-friendly initiative, industries have started using agro-waste briquettes along with coal or other non-renewable sources of fuel. Green activists saw increased usage of agro-waste for indus... |
N+P French Subcoal® plant obtains environmental and construction permits29 November 2022, Published under Cement NewsThe N+P Group, industry’s decarbonising expert, successfully obtained the environmental and construction permits for its new Subcoal ® Production facility at the industrial platform Isbergues (62) in Hauts-de-France, France. The total lead time of the permit process from application preparation to permit granting has been limited to little more than a year thanks to the contributions and efforts of the project partners North France Invest, ENTIME environmental consultant and VDDT architects... |