Global Cement Awards 2006
'For excellent in cement'
Winners and runners-up
The first Global Cement Awards were awarded at the 6th European Cement Conference and Exhibition
13-14 March 2006, London
Category | Winners (and winning value) and runners up (HM=honourable mention) |
Lowest specific energy consumption, raw meal grinding | Winner: Lafarge Cement Cizkovice works (10.36kWh/t) Runners up: Grasim Cement, Cement Division South (13.42kWh/t) Kesoram Industries, Vasavadatta (16.21kWh/t) HM: Grasim Cement, Raipur; Kerman Cement, Iran |
Lowest specific energy consumption, clinker grinding | Winner: Grasim Cement, Raipur (22.27kWh/t) Runners up: Grasim Cement, Cement Division South (25.64kWh/t) Kesoram Industries, Vasavadatta Cement (38.72kWh/t) |
Lowest specific electrical energy consumption/tonne of cement produced | Winner: Kesoram Industries, Vasavadatta (64.87kWh/t cement) Runners up: Grasim Cement, Raipur (69.87kWh/t cement) Grasim Cement, Aditya Cement Chittorgarh (86.83kWh/t cement)) |
Kiln reliability | Winner: ACC, Lakheri Works (955.2 hours between stops) Runners up: Grasim Cement, Aditya Cement Chittorgarh (190 hours between stops) Grasim Cement, Raipur (471.47 hours between stops) HM: Kesoram Industries, Vasavadatta, |
Lowest injury incidence rate | Winner: Grasim Cement, Cement Division South (zero, 300 workers) Runner up: UltraTech Cement Tadpatri plant, Aditya Birla Group (0.295, 1086 workers) HM: Grasim Cement, Aditya Cement Chittorgarh; Grasim Cement, Raipur |
Most innovative scheme for environmental impact abatement | Winner: Mitsubish Cement Corp., Cushenberry plant (Tyres and biosolids project) Runners up: Arabian Cement Co., Rabigh plant (Dedusting and dust monitoring project) Grasim Cement, Cement Division South (conservation of resources using overburden as raw material source) |
Lowest specific CO2 emission | Winner: Wopfinger Baustoffindustrie GmbH (57kg CO2/t) Runners up: Grasim Cement, Aditya Cement Chittorgarh (740kg CO2/t) Grasim Cement, Raipur (651kg CO2/t) HM: Grasim Cement, Cement Division South |
Most innovative transport or handling solution | Special award: Cemex Rugby (ISO-veyor project for fly-ash transport to Heathrow Terminal 5) |
Short-listed entries were invited to the presentation ceremony at the Sheraton Skyline Hotel in London, 14 March 2006. Winners were awarded the Global Cement Award trophy 2006.
'For excellent in cement'
A different approach to the awards has been taken from the past.
On-line nominations have been sought from global cement industry participants in seven categories. All valid nominees have been included in a voting round.
Categories included in 2013 are as follows:
Best cement company for technical excellence
Best cement company for organisational excellence
Best cement company for product quality
Best cement company for environmental performance
Best cement company to work for
Best cement industry supplier - equipment
Best cement industry supplier - non-equipment (services, software etc)
The voting round is now open
Voters can rate nominees from poor to excellent and the highest-rated company in each category will win.
The 2nd bi-annual Global Cement Awards were awarded at the Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony of the 7th European Cement Conference and Exhibition, 19-20 March 2007, Vienna.
The categories for the awards were as follows:
Pyroprocessing + comminution categories
1) Lowest specific energy consumption, raw meal grinding (kWh/tonne raw meal, incl. classification)
2) Lowest specific energy consumption, clinker grinding (kWh/tonne clinker, incl. classification)
3) Lowest specific electrical energy consumption/tonne of cement produced (kWh/tonne cement)
4) Kiln reliability (mean time between stops, excluding planned stops of more than 1 day)
Safety category
5) Lowest injury incidence rate (including all contractors on site) (= lost time accidents (LTA) per 200,000 employee hours, where an LTA is an incident which results in absence from work beyond the day or shift when it occurred).
Environmental category
6) Most innovative scheme for environmental impact abatement
7) OPC-based products: Lowest specific CO2 emission (CO2 emission/tonne of finished cement produced, excluding contributions from electrical energy)
Transport/handling category
8) Most innovative transport or handling solution
Maintenance category
9) Most effective or innovative maintenance solution
GC's 'Cement industry individual of the year'
10) Global Cement's industry individual of the year