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Ethiopia is in the news for its upcoming advance in concrete production. In the past, Ethiopia has imported about one million tons annually, an eighth of its approximate total demand. However, by the end of 2012 the country should be able to more than meet its own cement demand. Plentiful limestone deposits are present across the [...] The Titan Cement plant of Castle Hayne, NC is taking quite a hit from the residents of that area. What began three years ago as a fight against Titan’s acquisition of and subsequent building permits for the land has continued as a battle to shut down the newly operating plant. With an organized force (http://stoptitan.org/), the [...] Aris Papadopoulos recently testified before the Congressional Subcommittee on Energy and Power. Papadopoulos, CEO of Titan America and Chair of the Portland Cement Association (PCA), urged Congress to address harmful regulations before they could seriously wreck the economic recovery of the country. Papadopoulos’s testimony was presented during a hearing to assess the impact of recent EPA regulations [...] In April, money from the 2009 federal stimulus bill was appropriated to subsidize the construction of a pier on Staten Island for the importation of cement. The pier, once completed, will allow foreign producers to import approximately 30 cargo shiploads (approximately 880,000 tons) each year. This amount is equivalent to one year’s cement production at a typical Lehigh [...] Last Thursday, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced the six projects selected to receive grant money to pursue carbon capture and reuse from industrial sources. The DOE had $106 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act along with $156 million in private funding to split between its chosen projects. The projects, now in Phase 2 [...] The European Union’s climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard is pushing to increase the 2020 emissions reduction goal from the current twenty percent to thirty percent. The heavy industries, including cement and steel, have lobbied the EU against such drastic cuts successfully in the past (ever since the United Nations talks in Copenhagen failed this previous December) on [...] For the past twenty years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has hosted the Entrepreneurship Competition for new companies founded by MIT graduates in six key areas: products and services, web and IT, energy, development, mobile, and life sciences. The winner of each category competes for the overall grand prize of one-hundred thousand dollars. This year’s energy [...] Sales in India are looking up for Danish equipment supplier FLSmidth, which was hit hard by the global credit crunch (sales plummeted and shares fell nearly seventy-three percent in value). FLSmidth has been dealing in India for over a century and the country is currently its biggest market as well as being its biggest center of [...] French cement company Lafarge set a goal for itself to reduce its carbon footprint by twenty percent by 2010. The company has recently announced that it has beaten its goal by a full year. Lafarge claims to have reduced its footprint by 20.7% as of the end of 2009. Lafarge plans on continuing its green trend [...] One of the world’s most abundant organisms, algae, may be the solution to CO2 emissions for the cement industry. Two Ontario, Canada-based companies have developed a process in which carbon-eating algae is used to scrub exhaust gases of the greenhouse gas. St. Mary’s Cement (SMC), part of Votorantim, and Pond Biofuels have been working on the [...] |
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