Sentences with phrase «cement industry»

Three initiatives were also presented in between different panel discussions: the Global Electricity Initiative; Low - Carbon Technology Roadmap for the Indian Cement Industry; and the ICC Business World Trade Agenda.

«It has the potential to cement industry confidence in the approach and provide a blueprint for similar projects to follow.»

Our research suggests that without a shift in technology then refineries, steel and cement industries alone are going to be the source of up to a quarter of the emissions in 2050,» says professor Filip Johnsson who has been leading the Chalmers research.

To allay concerns regarding pollution, the U.S. cement industry has voluntarily pledged by 2020 to reduce total carbon dioxide emissions from its plants to 10 percent below 1990 levels by upgrading manufacturing equipment and changing the ingredients in the finished product.

This billion - dollar San Francisco foundation is working to find the most effective carbon - dioxide reduction techniques in different countries and economic sectors — for instance, the Chinese cement industry or the Indian electrical grid.

In a clear sign of the limitations of the initial EPA data, the federal agency released no data on one cement industry leader, CEMEX, which has claimed that the information EPA requested — information directly related to the amount of mercury it releases into our air and waters — is confidential business information.

Citing the tax as a disadvantage, cement industry reps claimed in March that Asian imports into B.C. were up about 15 per cent from 2008.

The iron and steel, and cement industries represent roughly half of industry's emissions; chemicals and petrochemicals are the other very large sources.

The main driver for this apparent contradiction was coal substitution in small industrial and residential boilers; higher efficiency in power, steel and cement industries also helped.

Studies for the USA identified 30 opportunities in every production step in the cement - making process and estimated the economic potential for energy efficiency improvement in the US cement industry at 11 %, reducing emissions by 5 % (Worrell et al., 2000b; Worrell and Galitsky, 2004).

The amendments on cement are particularly outrageous, given that the EU cement industry lags behind most of the world (including India, China and Brazil) in terms of its commitment to reducing emissions.

Minerals and cement industry equipment and services supplier FLSmidth says it is vital to remain focused on existing activities, despite the mining industry struggling with downturns in demand and prices across all commodities.

In terms of sustainability, hempcrete sequesters carbon, whereas the cement industry is one of the world's leading producers of CO2.

He is a co-founder of Blue Green Canada (an environmental / trade union movement collaboration) and the Socially and Environmentally Responsible Aggregate initiative, the first attempt in the world to create a green standard for the vertically integrated aggregate and cement industry.

By: Marleny Arnoldi 26th January 2018 Minerals and cement industry equipment and services supplier FLSmidth will be the exhibit hall title sponsor for the Investing in African Mining Indaba for the third consecutive year.

Prior to joining Legg Mason in 1981, he served as treasurer of the JE Baker Company, a major manufacturer of products for the steel and cement industries.

We have the right technology, capabilities, and people to meet the technical and regulatory requirements of the construction and cement industry.

Greif Flexibles provides a wide variety of FIBCs, container liners, and other flexible packaging to satisfy the technical and regulatory requirements of the construction and cement industry.

Safe and reliable solutions for the construction and cement industry.

President John Mahama has cautioned foreign companies operating in the country, especially, in the cement industry, against «unfair» trade practices.

Various cases abound within and outside the cement industry — one of which was their taking over of the limestone deposits of another competing entity in the south - south region of Nigeria until they ceded him 25 percent of their company.

Slag left from the coal is sold to the cement industry.

My first article for RealMoney was on the cement industry, and I owned three companies in it at that time, a massive overweight that paid off.

I have long been a fan of the cement industry, because it is the cheap way to facilitate global growth, and catch up on delayed infrastructure investment in the US.

It cemented the industry's foothold in the technology world.

The cement industry is one

Government and industry must take collaborative action to create a favourable investment framework for accelerating the sustainable transition of the cement industry globally, including creating an enabling, level playing field; putting technological change into action; and facilitating uptake of sustainable products.

A combination of technology and policy solutions could provide a pathway to reduce direct carbon dioxide emissions from the cement industry by 24 % below current levels by 2050, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI).

The roadmap uses a bottom - up approach to explore a possible transition pathway based on least - cost technology analysis for the cement industry to reduce its direct CO2 emissions in line with the IEA's 2DS.

As global population rises and more people move into cities, global cement production is set to grow by 12 to 23 % by 2050, and despite increasing efficiencies, direct carbon emissions from the cement industry are expected to increase by 4 % globally by 2050 under the IEA Reference Technology Scenario (RTS).

The technology roadmap, called Low - Carbon Transition in the Cement Industry, provides an update to the global Cement Technology Roadmap - produced in 2009 as the first sectoral roadmap ever.

The low - carbon transition of the cement industry can only be attained with a supportive regulatory framework as well as effective and sustained investments.

Pond Biofuels will now get funding under the Asia - Pacific Partnership for a feasibility study that will assess the suitability of its technology for the cement industry in China.

This means it will get funding to do a feasibility study that will assess the suitability of its technology for the cement industry in China.

In 2013, however, the EPA voluntarily gave the cement industry the very relief it had failed to get in court or in Congress.