Cement News tagged under: environmental
Lafarge accelerates its innovation strategy30 September 2010, Published under Cement NewsAether, an innovative project developed by Lafarge to reduce the CO2 footprint of cement, is receiving support from the European Union. This support is provided under the European "LIFE+" program, a financing instrument supporting environmental projects. Aether has been developed in collaboration with the Institute for Building Materials in Poland (MBM) and the British Building Research Establishment (BRE). It will contribute to continuing the reduction on the Group’s CO2 emissions. Aeth... |
Holcim participates in Alabama Coastal cleanup event23 September 2010, Published under Cement NewsHolcim US Inc announced that employees, friends and family from its Theodore plant located in Theodore, Alabama will join forces and participate for the thirteenth consecutive year in the 23rd Annual Alabama Coastal Cleanup event. The event is being held on Saturday, September 18, 2010. "As a company, we are proud of what we do to limit our impact on the environment," said Quentin McGahey, plant manager of the Theodore plant. "As employees, we are also committed to doing our part in maintain... |
Lafarge gets private state hearing, USA23 September 2010, Published under Cement NewsA group formed by the Lafarge cement plant will hear from the state Health Department next week on a still-unfinished health study about potential health risks around the plant. No preliminary findings from the state study, in the works for more than a year, will be released during the closed-door presentation Sept. 30 to the Lafarge Community Liaison Panel, DOH spokesman Jeffrey Hammond said Wednesday. He said the meeting was to "provide an update on the status of the (assessment); and, a... |
Cockburn Cement faces parliamentary inquiry, Australia21 September 2010, Published under Cement NewsA parliamentary inquiry will probe dust, odour and alleged health issues plaguing communities surrounding Cockburn Cements Munster plant. The company’s licences will also be examined, along with how stringent the government assesses community concerns on the plant. Residents near the plant have for years claimed industrial pollution from Cockburn Cement allegedly causes asthma, blood noses, nausea and headaches, while also stripping paint from their cars. Meteorological studies show w... |
Holcim uses GRP waste to power cement production20 September 2010, Published under Cement NewsDenmark-based pultrusion processor Fiberline has struck a deal with Holcim and waste-to-fuels company Zajons Logistik Entsorgungsgesellschaft (ZLE) - both located in northern Germany – to supply surplus glass fibre reinforced plastic for thermal recycling in cement production. Beginning this month, Fiberline is sending its GRP waste to ZLE, which is located 331km away at Melbeck in Germany, where it is shredded and other recycled waste added to achieve a defined calorific value above of the... |
TXI Midlothian operations win Energy Star award?13 September 2010, Published under Cement NewsTXI Operations, LP, a subsidiary of Texas Industries, Inc announced today that its Midlothian Cement Plant has been awarded the 2010 Energy Star(R) certification for superior energy performance by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The award places the TXI Midlothian Cement Plant in an exceptional category of high-performing, energy efficient cement plants in the U.S., based on the EPA’s National Energy Performance Rating System. TXI’s Midlothian Cement Plant follow... |
Siam Cement Group wins innovation award, Thailand13 September 2010, Published under Cement NewsSiam Cement Group has scooped an award for Thailand’s most innovative companies, The Nation reports. The theme for this year was "Innovation Leading to the Economic Recovery". Annop Tanlamai, dean of commerce and accountancy at Chulalongkorn University, said on September 9 that the awards recognised 10 companies that were the most innovative in the service and non-service markets. Siam Cement Group won in the non-service category. The awardees were selected from the 480 companies list... |
Experts discuss cement concerns, UK10 September 2010, Published under Cement NewsAn expert group has been established to discuss the concerns of the community near a Hanson Cement plant who fear a cement factory is linked to cancer, the BBC has reported. Residents will receive an update on an investigation into their concerns later. The investigation into concerns around the Hanson Cement plant in Padeswood was launched by Public Health Wales. At the second in a series of meetings, the investigation team will answer questions and give progress reports. Hanson has... |
Skyonic’s to open Texas Carbon Capture facility04 September 2010, Published under Cement NewsSkyonic’s plan to commercialize Skymine, a process that scrubs SOX, NO2, mercury, and other heavy metals from industrial plant exhaust and converts leftover CO2 into sodium bicarbonate, was just a glimmer in the company’s eye as recently as February. But this week Skyonic announced that it is opening a carbon mineralization demonstration facility at San Antonio-based Capitol Aggregates, one of the biggest cement plants in Texas. The plant comes courtesy of a US$3m DOE grant that also requi... |
Holcim permit to expand quarry in North Hungary revoked03 September 2010, Published under Cement NewsHungary’s National Inspectorate for Environment, Nature and Water has revoked an environmental permit that Holcim Hungaria Zrt., the Hungarian unit of Holcim, obtained to conduct a 90ha expansion of the company’s limestone quarry in northern Hungary, the civil environmental-organizations that appealed the decision to grant the permit informed MTI on Wednesday evening. Holcim Hungaria planned to increase capacity at the quarry by threefold to 1.8m tons per year in order to provide the raw ma... |