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Suez Cement production threatened by fuel price hike
19 December 2012Egypt: Suez Cement has announced that it may have to halt production at two of its production lines due to an increase in the price of mazut, a heavy, low-quality fuel oil. The Egyptian government has raised the price of the fuel by 130% to US$372/t, effective 15 December 2012. Both of the threatened lines use mazut as their main energy source. The group has a domestic market share of around 20%.
Italcementi faces Egyptian strikes
21 March 2012Egypt: Italcementi subsidiary Suez Cement has announced that workers at two of its factories in Suez and Katamiya started a strike on 14 March 2012. The strike has halted shipping at these plants although production has not been affected. In a separate statement Suez Cement said that strike action at its Tourah plant ended on 20 March 2012.
Suez launches alternative fuel operations
15 August 2011Egypt: In collaboration with the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) Suez Cement Group of Companies (SCGC) has begun the implementation of a new integrated alternative fuel (AF) system at its Kattameya plant in New Cairo.
"As part of the activities to enhance our sustainability, this project will realise environmental returns through the application of advanced technologies for using AFs in cement production operations, a matter which will maximise our competitiveness and reduce the use of traditional energy sources thus helping the country," said Carlo Foroni, technical director of the SCGC. "This will also relieve the community from the need to treat their waste materials and will also limit CO2 emissions," Foroni added.
According to Mohamed Aymen, SGCC environment affairs manager, following EEAA's 2009 approval of burning agricultural and municipal wastes at the company's Kattameya and Helwan plants, industrial testing started at Kattameya through a pilot feeding line. "All of these products will be recycled and used as an alternative fuel by being safely burnt at cement kilns," said Aymen.
While the environmental impact assessment for using alternative fuel systems at the Suez plant is underway, the project's feeding line will already be applied as planned at the company's Helwan plant later in 2011.