A TEC GRECO will deliver it’s Kiln Burner to HeidelbergCement’s plant at Burglengenfeld. The project will be realized by the end of 2016 and is part of a complete modernization of the plant at ...

Editor: "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." Exclusive of what retired County Judge Monroe W. Treiman may say, the law of chemistry says, "Mercury doesn't burn." At any temperature, and no matter what ...

TXI's older kilns have been idle since late 2008, a response to a downturn in demand for cement. TXI will permanently shut down its four oldest, highest-polluting cement kilns in Midlothian and will ...

For this, however, some tweaking of the policy is required. Burning waste in cement kilns is better than destroying them in incinerators or using them as landfill, says Ulhas Parlikar, Director – ...

The benefits of using industrial cement kilns as a waste solution for energy containing wastes are both obvious and double-sided, they completely destroy the waste and at the same time, replace ...

Cement and lime kilns could become a major market for refuse-derived fuel (RDF) made from household waste, after a new ruling by the Environment Agency. Following court rulings in Europe, the Agency ...

The cement industry, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, could soon be eligible to tap green financing markets to pay for waste to be burned as fuel in its kilns. While the industry is touting ...

For every 1,000 kilograms of cement the world produces, 600 kilograms of carbon dioxide are dumped into the atmosphere. If that doesn’t sound like a lot, consider that last year the world made about 4 ...

Opponents of plans to burn hazardous waste in cement kilns urged lawmakers Saturday to derail the project until a study committee can determine if the process is safe. About 400 residents turned out ...

The Environment Agency has published guidance in an attempt to improve the way cement plant operators communicate with the public over the burning of tyres in cement kilns. The Tyre Protocol is an ...

Irish Cement will be allowed burn one million used tyres a year at its Limerick plant under conditions of its new operating licence. A further 80,000 tonnes of waste from industry, slaughterhouses, ...