Cement News tagged: Environmental
Heidelberg Materials' Slite plant secures SEK70.8 in green funding
Heidelberg Materials Sweden (formerly Cementa) has secured SEK70.8m (US$6.9m) in funding to invest in switchgear at its Slite plant in Gotland, Sweden. The funding, allocated by the EU and the Danish Agency for Growth, aims to support the site’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. The new switchgear will enable the company to improve overall efficiency of its electrical systems...
Votorantim invests US$12m in Oural solid fuel plant
Votorantim 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 warehou...
Taiheiyo Cement Corporation’s Carbofix blocks adopted for public works
Roadway interlocking concrete blocks and property boundary concrete blocks, both made from Taiheiyo Cement Group ’s CARBOFIX ® cement, have been adopted for a municipal public works project of Fukaya City, Saitama, Japan. This marks the first time that a poured-in concrete product made of CARBOFIX cement has been put in practical use. The CARBOFIX cement has reduced the amount of CO 2 em...
Seven companies to work on Japanese advanced CCS projects
Taiheiyo Cement Corp , ITOCHU Corp, Nippon Steel Corp, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, INPEX Corp, Taisei Corp and ITOCHU Oil Exploration Co Ltd were selected by the Japan Organisation for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) to conduct engineering design work for Japanese advanced CCS projects. The Japanese government has chosen CCS as an important means for decarbonisation that must be ...
New ISO co-processing standard
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published a new standard, ISO 4349:2024 for the “Determination of the recycling index for co-processing. The standard introduces a globally-accepted methodology to calculate the share of solid recovered fuels recycled in cement kilns. This share, the recycling index (R-index) is calculated on the basis of the ash content and ash co...
State building projects in Ireland must use low-carbon concrete under new rules
Future state-funded building such as roads, schools and hospitals must use low-carbon concrete under new regulations which came into force yesterday. Concrete will be a key building material as Ireland spends billions of euros modernising its infrastructure, but it is already responsible for five per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, mostly because of the new type of cement used in its ma...
MPA study finds waste clay and bricks could reduce embodied carbon of cement by 30%
Using waste clay and bricks in the cement production process could reduce the final product’s embodied carbon by as much as 30 per cent, according to a recent report. Led by the Mineral Products Association (MPA) with funding from Innovate UK, the two-year study found that reclaimed clays and finely-ground brick powder can be used in the manufacture of cement and concrete to lower associate...
Mizu Cementos partners energy company in hydrogen pilot project
Mizu Cimentos is partnering Brazilian energy company CPFL Energia to establish a green hydrogen pilot project in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. CPFL Group has an ESG commitment to invest BRL44m (US$ 7.9m) in sustainable projects. This hydrogen pilot project with Mizu Cimentos, a subsidiary of Organização Polimix, will form part of its part of its green programme. CPFL said that...
Mevocrete project moves to production
Material Evolution (UK) have worked with academic and industrial partners to develop and optimise low carbon geo polymer cement technology for production in the Mevocrete project. The Mevocrete project, backed by a GBP7.6m grant (US$10m) from Innovate UK through their Transforming Foundation Industries (TFI) Challenge programme, began in September 2022 and is now coming to an end. The waste...
Republic Cement's ecoloop diverts residual waste to co-processing
Republic Cement 's resource recovery group ecoloop reported that it successfully diverted 21.4bn plastic sachets in 2023, equivalent to 110,000t of residual waste used, as alternative fuel in the company’s co-processing operations for cement manufacturing. For the year 2023, Republic Cement said that it had utilised over 670,000t of residual waste in its overall cement manufacturing proce...
Local dam to be unaffected by new cement plant
The Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZIMWA) has needed to dispel concerns over the establishment of a new US$1bn cement plant in Magunje, Zimbabwe would pollute the nearby Kemureza Dam. Labenmom Investments (Pty) Ltd and West International Holdings of China aim to build the plant and have been undergoing an Environmental Impact Assessment. The Hurungwe/Magunje cement project forms part of P...
Cimpor starts Kribi calcined clay plant
Cimpor has launched its new plant in Kribi , Cameroon. Equipped with a production line for calcined clay based on the entrained flow process (flash activation), developed and built by thyssenkrupp Polysius, the plant produced its first activated clay in October last year. With the Polysius ® activated clay technology, CO 2 emissions can be reduced by up to 70 per cent compared to conven...
Taiwan Cement Corp increases its shareholding in battery company
Taiwan Cement Corp (TCC) has increased its valuation of battery storage and electric vehicle infrastructure solutions provider New Horizons Ahead (NHOA). TCC, trading as TCC Group Holdings, is currently the owner of 87.78 per cent of the share capital in Italy-headquartered NHOA. The move would take NHOA fully into private ownership and result in its delisting from the Euronext Paris Exch...
Betolar granted CEM III/B accelerator patent
The materials technology company Betolar Plc has been granted a patent in Finland for an accelerator developed for the standard CEM III/B cement mixture. This innovation accelerates the early strength development of low-carbon concrete. This factor is crucial for the manufacturing efficiency of concrete elements and products. The challenge with low-carbon cement mixtures lies in achieving s...
Argos provide cement for Disney pier construction
Argos has played a crucial role in constructing Disney's new civil works at Lighthouse Point on Eleuthera Island, Bahamas. With an approximate investment of US$250m, this project is part of Disney Cruise Line's expansion plans and is expected to welcome more than 1m visitors annually. Argos provided approximately 10,000t of cement for the construction of the over 700m-long pier, accountin...
Carbon Upcycling joins the PCA to advance decarbonisation
Decarbonisation and carbon capture and utilisation provider Carbon Upcycling is admitted to the Portland Cement Association (PCA). The US Department of Energy recently announced over US$1.2bn in funding for PCA member companies to launch decarbonisation projects, as part of the Biden Administration's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. This federal investment unders...