Suez Cement and Italcementi s first waste treatment plant in Egypt was inaugurated this week. The project uses 45,000t of household waste to produce 35,000t of alternative fuel annually. Given Egypt s on-going fuel concerns the project will ...
Tags: Cement, Fuel, Suez Cement, Italcementi
Five out of six cement plants in Switzerland are expected to run out of limestone and marl over the next 10-15 years.As their existing quarries border areas with protected status as landscapes of national significance,they can not be ...
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Hazardous smog has hit 17 Chinese provinces and municipalities, affecting 600 million people this year. The capital, Beijing, was shrouded in smog for several days during the seven-day national holiday, disappointing visitors who wanted to ...
Tags: Air Pollution, Coal Use
Sales of scrubbers, absorbers, biofliters, and adsorbers will exceed $6.8 billion in 2014. This is the latest prediction in the McIlvaine report, Scrubber/Adsorber/Biofilter World Markets. Absorbers will lead the way with revenues of ...
Egyptian miner, Asec, has posted EGP17.8m ($2.5m) in net losses in the first six months of 2013, compared with net losses of EGP15.2m ($2.1m) in the same period last year, Ahram has reported. Pre-tax financial results of the first six ...
Tags: Construction
In the course of the first half of 2013, Titan further strengthened its fundamental financial metrics, increasing sales, generating positive free cash flow and further reducing net debt. The robust recovery in the USA and resilient demand ...
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CEMEX USA is pleased to announce that five of its cement manufacturing plants have earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ENERGY STAR certification. The recognition of CEMEX USA s plants in Brooksville, Fla., Miami, Fla., ...
Tags: Cemex, Cement, Star Certification
The LIMAK Cement Group is upgrading its Pinarhisar, Ankara and Balikesir plants in Turkey, and as part of this upgrade is replacing seven ball mills with vertical roller mills. The Group has ordered all seven mills from Gebr. Pfeiffer SE to ...
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Major infrastructure projects and extensive plans to galvanise residential construction have fuelled demand for building materials in Saudi Arabia, prompting the government to intervene in the cement market for the second time in as many ...
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Virtually every industrial facility releases different types of pollutants into the atmosphere. Some examples of these industries would be steel manufacturing units, pulp and paper processing industries, textile mills, cement plants, ...
Tags: Air Pollution, Control Equipment
Jose Maria Magrina, Chief Executive Officer of Arabian Cement Company (ACC) announced that the company has taken all the steps needed to substitute natural gas with coal and refused derived fuel (RDF) as energy sources in its plant. He ...
Tags: Fuel, Metallurgy, Mineral&Energy, Arabian Cement
The Saudi commerce and industry minister, Tawfiq Al-Rabiah has said cement plants in the kingdom should maintain a strategic reserve of the commodity to prevent any future shortage, Saudi Gazette has reported. Cement manufacturer have ...
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Stationary sources around the world will spend $11 billion in 2014 for capital equipment and consumables to control NOx. This is the latest projection in NOx Control World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. The utility industry ...
Tags: NOx Control, Processing Machinery
Saudi Arabia s King, HH King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has issued a directive to fund more cement plants and import around 10 million tonnes of cement in order to offset a shortage in the country. Saudi Press Agency said that the ...
Tags: King Imports Cement, Construction
c- one of the biggest cement companies in the Kingdom - has announced plans to rehabilitate two kilns at its Hofuf factory. The company, which recently announced a 4.5% increase in first-quarter profits to $90.7m, had already re-opened ...
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