Articles on the cement industry from Global Cement
- Written by Trucost
Total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continue to rise despite the considerable efforts of a growing number of sustainability leaders. Under the current trajectory, temperatures are predicted to rise by almost 5°C by the end of the 21st Century, well beyond levels identified as ‘safe.’ With the legally-binding deal to limit global warming to 2°C signed in Paris in April 2016, how can cement companies prepare for future conditions...?
- Written by Martyn Popham, Cenin Cement
Cenin Cement’s Martyn Popham argues that major cement producers should recognise how carbon costs will come to bear on the cement sector in the future, and offers a solution from the ancient past...
- Written by Edwin Trout, Cement Industry Suppliers Forum
As the consequences of a market competitiveness investigation and the LafargeHolcim mega-merger continue to play out in the UK cement industry, Edwin Trout of the Cement Industry Suppliers’ Forum (CISF) looks at these and other aspects of the UK cement sector over the past 12 months. Over the past couple of years the UK cement market has recovered, the market fundamentals remain sound and most forecasts are positive.
- Written by Peter Edwards, Global Cement Magazine
Entsorga Italia SpA is based in Tortona, Italy. It was founded in 1997 on the basis of leveraging technology to improve environmental protection and standards. Today, Entsorga is a leading provider of technologies such as composting, mechanical biological treatment (MBT) and anaerobic digestion for both organic and municipal solid wastes. Here, the company’s Managing Director and President of the Board Pier Cella speaks to Global Cement’s Peter Edwards about a new and exciting project with the Essroc Martinsburg cement plant in West Virginia, USA.
- Written by Jacqueline Clark, Ash Grove Cement Company
Global Cement Magazine visited with key Ash Grove manufacturing executives recently to hear about the Midlothian plant’s history and the transformational changes it has undergone in the past few years.
