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Canada: The Greater Vancouver Water District (GVWD) has struck a deal with Lafarge Canada to sell drinking water treatment residuals to the Richmond cement plant for use in cement production. The contract is for a three-year agreement up to a total cost of just under US$1m, according to Postmedia News. The deal follows a 12-month industrial trial that started in mid-2016.
The residuals will be used as a substitute for shale in the production process. Around 10,000t/yr of residuals will be used to replace 2100t/yr of red shale and conglomerate that are currently supplied from a quarry at Sumas Mountain, Abbotsford. The use of residuals doesn’t affect the plant’s Air Quality Permit following stack tests. As part of the agreement Lafarge will need to build additional storage capacity at its plant.
Cement production in Kyrgyzstan hit by imports since joining the Eurasian Economic Union 27 February 2017
Kyrgyzstan: Cement produced in Kyrgyzstan has become ‘uncompetitive’ since the country joined the Eurasian Economic Union. The State Committee for Industry, Energy and Mining has blamed this on high volumes of imports from Kazakhstan, according to the Tazabek newspaper. The country has five integrated cement plants.
LafargeHolcim Morocco to build two cement plants in Souss-Massa 27 February 2017
Morocco: LafargeHolcim Morocco plans to build two new cement plants at Tizgilt, Chtouka Ait-Baha and Tidmi, Taroudant in the Souss-Massa region. The project is budgeted at Euro720m and it is expected to create 1400 jobs, according to the Challenge newspaper. Marcel Kobuz, the chief executive officer for the cement producer, has met with region head Zineb El Adaoui to discuss the initiatives including the allocation of land.
Arodo’s Henk Mariën dies
Written by Global Cement staff
27 February 2017
Belgium: Henk Mariën, the managing director and owner of Arodo, has died. He passed away suddenly on 9 February 2017. Mariën built the company that designs and builds bagging machines, palletisers and shrink covers leaving behind an international presence in the business and a workforce of over 100 staff. The company intends to continue his mission and continue to build Arodo’s future.
Conveyor fire breaks out at LafargeHolcim Hagerstown cement plant 24 February 2017
US: A fire has been reported at LafargeHolcim’s Hagerstown cement plant in Maryland. An overloaded conveyor belt was the source of the blaze near the centre of the site that broke out on the evening of 20 February 2017, according to the Herald-Mail newspaper. High temperatures prevented fire fighters from tacking the fire immediately and it burned for over an hour.