Cement News tagged: Environmental
Vicat to construct housing and office project on site of Olympic village
On the completion of the 2025 Summer Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, the athlete's village that housed 9000 people will be converted by Vicat into a residential and professional district. This will bring together more than 2800 new housing units, a student residence, a hotel, two new school groups, as well as 6ha of green spaces including a public park in the heart of the district...
Sierra Club applauds Biden-Harris administration sustainable products labelling plan
The US Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan for implementing a new labelling programme to help Federal purchasers and other buyers procure cleaner, more climate-friendly construction materials and products. Sierra Club applauds this development, which aims to ensure taxpayer money stops contributing to the climate crisis and establishes emissions reduction goals for pollution-i...
Veolia increases solvent recovery capacity raising alternative fuel volumes
UK resource management company Veolia has expanded solvent recovery capacity at its facility in Garston, Liverpool, to 86,000tpa to meet the growing demand for more sustainable industrial products. Effective recycling of these used solvents, waste paint thinners and solvent-based paint, will create new products as an alternative to virgin solvents, so that they can be used again in indust...
Cemex installs renewable energy at Alrewas site
Cemex has installed an innovative renewable energy project at its Alrewas ready-mixed concrete plant in Staffordshire, UK. The system, which uses a 90kWh battery along with solar panels, is expected to save 200t of CO 2 . According to Cemex, the new facility at Alrewas opened in 2023 without mains electricity, which means the site, until recently, has been exclusively powered by diesel ge...
Titan Group introduces Titan Edge and Premier
Titan Group has introduced Titan Edge family of products where “sustainability meets performance”, and Titan Premier family of services are aligned with the group’s Green Growth Strategy 2026. Both offerings WILL aim to offer innovative and sustainable solutions and services, empowering customers to advance construction and meet the challenges and opportunities for a safer, more resili...
Pakistan's cement industry to meet greenhouse gas emissions challenge
Pakistan's cement industry's focus on reducing emissions from clinker production and improving energy efficiency, while considering alternative fuels and materials is seen as more crucial than ever. With the industry's emissions having seen a significant surge in recent years, a detailed report highlighted in local media claims that urgent action is required to address the environmental impact...
Heidelberg Materials to receives US$5m in funding from EPA
Heidelberg Materials North America is set to receive US$5m in funding from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the development of a cloud-based tool that produces environmental product declarations (EPDs) for building materials. An EPD is a standardised declaration of a product’s lifecycle assessment that shows its impact on the environment. EPDs are vital for transparency o...
Airvault plant modification is well underway
Heidelberg Materials ’ Airvault cement plant in the Deux-Sèvres region of France recently welcomed Bruno Pillon, the company’s president of France activities, Benoit Galichet, industrial and technical director, and Charles Clavreul, general counsel. They were given an opportunity to see the progress of the Airvault 2025 GOCO2 project. After almost completing the design of the infrastruct...
Geseke plant starts WHRs
The Dyckerhoff ( Buzzi group ) plant in Geseke , Germany, has taken another important step in terms of energy efficiency and towards environmentally friendly and climate-neutral production as it starts up a waste heat recovery (WHR) system. After six months of construction, the organic Rankine cycle-based facility successfully went into trial operation. The WHR system is an innovative modu...
Pressure on securing alternative fuel streams to rise in the EU
The 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,”...
Regenera launches alternative fuel pilot project
Regenera, a subsidiary of Mexico-based cement giant Cemex , is establishing a pilot project to generate alternative energy that aims to turn Querétaro into the first zero-waste municipality in the country. The project will transform Querétaro’s organic waste into alternative fuel (AF) through a drying process similar to that used in a number of European cities. Antonio Balmori, VP of ur...
Cembureau calls for amendments EC draft Act
Cembureau, the European cement association, has commented on the European Commission’s draft Delegated Act on permanent emissions storage through carbon capture and utilisation (CCU). Significant research has been carried out into the topic of mineralisation as a permanent form of CO 2 storage and an increasing number of companies are planning to store CO 2 in concrete or aggregates, some...
Lafarge and Geocycle extend Calgary Aggregate Recycling agreement
The Exshaw Lafarge and Geocycle team announces an extension of their agreement with Calgary Aggregate Recycling (CAR), an Indigenous-owned business, to recycle by-products typically sent to landfill. These by-products are predominantly clay and silt from CAR’s soil washing system, the first of its kind in Alberta. Since 2023 the Exshaw team has successfully recycled these materials as par...
St Marys Cement receives funding for emissions reduction
Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Steven Guilbeault, has announced the reinvestment of up to CAD2.2m (US$1.6m) of recycled industrial pollution pricing revenues to fund a major new emissions reduction project at St Marys Cement in Ontario. According to Canadian Geographic, with this funding, St Marys Cement, which is part of Votorantim Cimentos , will be installing a n...
Recycled cement paste offers decarbonisation opportunities
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) have published a new study, which found that recycling cement paste is one of the cheapest and most efficient methods of reducing emissions from cement production. Led by experts at Imperial College London’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, this research explores how waste cement paste that has undergone CO 2 mineralisat...
Rüdersdorf plant to receive biochar facility
Cemex is building a biochar facility at its Rüdersdorf cement plant in Germany. The multinational cement producer has signed a joint venture agreement with recycling service provider ALBA to produce biochar, a carbon-neutral fuel derived from biomass. The use of biochar, alongside a planned carbon capture project on site, will allow the capture of biomass CO 2 for storage and the producti...