Cement News tagged under: international
Chile – Cementos Melon has 30 days to appeal petcoke decision30 July 2003, Published under Cement NewsChilean cement manufacturer Cementos Melon, owned by Lafarge, has been given 30 days to file an appeal with the ministerial council of the national environment agency Conama in the hope it will overturn the decision taken by the regional environmental authority Corema of Region V. Earlier this month, Corema rejected a proposal by the cement company to use petcoke at is La Calera works. |
Canada/US – St Lawrence raises the stake30 July 2003, Published under Cement NewsSt Lawrence Cement has announced its ambitious goal of reducing its net carbon dioxide emissions by 15 per cent per tonne of cement produced between 2000 and 2010 under the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leaders programme. This goal follows its nine per cent cut in CO2 emissions achieved between 1990 and 2000. 'Climate Leaders' is a voluntary government-industry partnership and encourages businesses to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through a comprehensive climate ch... |
Hong Kong – Green Island’s pilot incineration project to move ahead30 July 2003, Published under Cement NewsGreen Island Cement received the go-ahead from Hong Kong's Environmental Protection Department to move its pilot research project to incinerate waste in its cement kilns to the public consultation stage. The breakthrough comes after seven months of prolonged negotiations between the watchdog and the cement company. The public consultation will run until 26 June, after which Rob Law, EPD Director, will decide the project’s fate. However, there are more hurdles to clear as the company is l... |
UK – Another feather on RMC’s sustainability cap30 July 2003, Published under Cement NewsReady-mix concrete supplier RMC has extended its sustainable development efforts through a partnership with BirdLife International, a partnership of 103 national and local non-governmental conservation organisations. Through the partnership RMC aims to protect wildlife at its quarries and other aggregate sites while enhancing its ‘license to operate’. To this end, RMC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with BirdLife which include the following objectives: • to encourage its ... |
USA - EPA looks into semiconductor residues in cement30 July 2003, Published under Cement NewsThe US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is looking into a plan to recycle the residue of semiconductor production at IBM Corporation’s East Fishkill plant into cement. IBM proposes to send electroplating sludge from microchip manufacturing processes to a cement kiln where it would become part of the cement. Lime is a major component in the sludge and would reduce the cement makers’ need for quarrying new lime. However, the sludge also contains small amounts of cadmium, lead, chromiu... |
UK – Sewage sludge as alternative fuel30 July 2003, Published under Cement NewsThe UK currently has the disposal problem of two million tonnes of sewage sludge per year, much of which is used as agricultural fertiliser. In a bid to help to reduce the sludge mountain, Lafarge is trying out the use of sewage sludge as alternative fuel in its cement production process. The pellets have two-thirds the heat value of coal and could replace up to 20,000t of coal annually if the green light is given to use them as a permanent fuel. An added benefit is that the use of sewage pe... |
UK – Lafarge to increase tyre burning at Cauldon30 July 2003, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Cement is to increase its tyre burning at its Cauldon plant by over 50 per cent to a maximum of 900 tyres per hour after it has been granted permission. Works manager Ian Mycock commented: “ We have used chipped used tyres here as a fuel for over 10 years. In that time we have used over 23 million tyres. Laid out end-to-end, they would stretch from Cauldon to Darwin, Australia.” An automated system feeds tyres into the preheater tower at 6.5t/h, where they are burned at 900˚ C. T... |
China – Heidelberg in Guangzhou joint-venture30 July 2003, Published under Cement NewsHeidelbergCement is jointly funding the construction of a modern, environmentally-friendly cement works in Guangzhou, southern China. It teams up with Hong Kong-based Yue Xiu Enterprises Holdings to form Fangzheng Cement Co, which will hold 90 per cent of the shares while the remaining 10 per cent will be held by Guangzhou Cement Company. Investors already in place will fund 55 per cent of the total cost while bank loans will take the remainder. The new RNM1bn plant will cover nearly 52h... |
New order for KHD Humboldt Wedag AG09 July 2003, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Beocinska Fabrika Cementa, Serbia, placed an order with KHD Humboldt Wedag AG for modernisation and upgrading its raw-material grinding system at the Beocin plant located northwest from Belgrade at the Donau river. Except for concrete foundations and control system the project will be implemented by KHD Humboldt Wedag AG on a turnkey basis. The existing grinding system equipped with an impact dryer and air-swept grinding mill as major machinery of a capacity of approximately 180t... |
USA - St Lawrence Cement gets backing for new works30 June 2003, Published under Cement NewsThe Business Council of New York State has backed the proposal of St Lawrence Cement to close its existing Catskill, Green County plant and build a more modern works across the Hudson River. Trebling in effect cement production capacity of the old unit, the new plant will be located in an existing quarry between Greenport and the City of Hudson. Environmental groups disregard the fact that modern pollution control systems will reduce toxic emissions, now released into the air by the Cats... |