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Control Engineering reports that Cemex has been awarded the Energy Star Partner of the Year award for a second time. Cemex has been an Energy Star partner since 2004, and in 2009 saved more than 1.1. million MMBTU on energy, cutting an equivalent of 107,500 metric tons of CO2 emissions. In a time of economic stress, Cemex, [...] Lafarge says they will double their commitment in India over the next five years. Bruno Lafont, Chairman and Global CEO says that Lafarge primarily intends to expand organically through greenfield plant construction, but that they will not rule out acquisitions if the opportunities present themselves. Lafarge expects a consolidation in the Indian cement market in the [...] 2009 was year where cement industry news was really dominated by three factors: the economy, the Chinese, and the environment. Here are some of the stories we at BGE believe were the most important of the year: It’s the economy, stupid – The economic collapse and its effect on the cement industry may have started in ernest in [...] CEMEX announced on Tuesday that it had made significant progress in restructuring of its debt. It has managed to move the maturities of about 14.5 billion in dept out from the 2009-2011 time frame out to 2014. The move helps substantially secure the company’s short term financial stability. Texas Industries is under [...] Here’s an exercise: Make a list of all the industries that have resisted some fundamental change in their business environment, be it regulatory or market driven, on the grounds that the result would be devastating to the business, the job market and ultimately costly for consumers. The industry was just too big, too important, and society [...] Related items on BridgeGap Engineering blog The EPA has formally proposed new regulations to limit the mercury emissions from cement kilns to 43 pounds per million tons of production. They arrived at this figure by examining the top 1/8 of kilns in the US (Recall during our earlier post on Keith Barnett’s presentation that MACT Standards, by law, [...] Phil Gaynor shared his thoughts on the purpose of this conference: Knowledge Transfer This conference is widely acknowledged to be the world’s leading technical conference for the cement industry and the Cement Industry Committee (CIC) has done some neat things, like the concurrent Environmental Workshop, to make this conference [...] Update : This site and blog are going ‘live’ on Sunday May 31st, from the 2009 IEEE/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference in Palm Springs, California USA. As a courtesy to our customers, we will be posting live updates during the conference to give you a “play-by-play” feel to those of you who could not be in [...] |
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