Sources: Cement Association of Canada, Ottawa; CMCM staff The Cement Association of Canada’s new action plan, Concrete Zero, spells carbon emissions reduction measures up and down the industry’s value chain and builds on formal benchmarks that CAC and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada officials outlined last fall in Roadmap Read more…
Sources: Holcim Ltd., Zug, Switzerland; CMCM staff The parent company of the North American Holcim and Lafarge Canada businesses has taken a stake in United Kingdom-based Coomtech, whose kinetic drying technology for harvested fly ash and other raw cement kiln feeds results in up to 75 percent lower carbon emissions Read more…
Sources: Cement Products staff; Portland Cement Association, Washington, D.C. Convening for a panel during the IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Conference in Dallas, Portland Cement Association producer member executives confirmed that alternative fuel usage, renewable energy-powered plant operations, and carbon capture storage (CCS) technology are positioning their industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Read more…
Sources: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; CMCM staff The Environmental Protection Agency’s just-published Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks cites 5.586 billion metric tons (mt) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions for 2021, a 6 percent increase over the prior year. EPA assigns CO2e metrics by UN Intergovernmental Panel Read more…
Sources: Heidelberg Materials North America, Irving, Texas; CMCM staff A Heidelberg Materials and Government of Canada memorandum of understanding will support development of a full scale carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) facility at the company’s Edmonton cement plant. With projected annual capacity exceeding 1 million tonnes, the facility will Read more…
Sources: Votorantim Cimentos, Sao Paulo; CMCM staff The parent company of Prairie Material, Canada Building Materials and St Marys cement, aggregate and concrete operations serving Great Lakes markets reports a 3 percent year over year reduction in carbon dioxide emissions per tonne of cementitious material shipped. Votorantim Cimentos logged an Read more…
Source: CMCM staff Just-deployed renewable energy infrastructure at the Alamo Cement Co. plant in San Antonio, Texas reflects carbon dioxide emissions reduction measures that parent and ultimate parent companies, Buzzi Unicem USA Inc. of Bethlehem, Pa. and Buzzi Unicem S.p.A. of Italy, have outlined for customers, investors and policymakers on both Read more…
Sources: Buzzi Unicem USA Inc., Bethlehem, Pa.; CMCM staff Alamo Cement Co. will source up to 15 percent of annual electricity requirements for its San Antonio plant from a new 24,700-panel solar field built adjacent to the operation’s limestone quarry. Full use of the 45-acre renewable energy infrastructure will position Read more…
Sources: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Portland Cement Association, Washington, D.C.; CMCM staff The 86 facilities recognized in the EPA Energy Star Industrial Program—10 cement plants in eight states among them—are credited with saving more than 100 trillion Btu of energy and preventing 6 million-plus metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Read more…
Sources: Heidelberg Materials, Germany; CMCM staff The parent company of key North American cement, aggregates and concrete operator Heidelberg Materials is the latest multinational producer in its sector to validate 2030 carbon dioxide emissions reduction targets according to the Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) 1.5°C framework. Across U.S., Canadian and Read more…