France: LafargeHolcim France and ADEME Occitanie, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency for the region, have inaugurated a waste recovery unit at the Port-la-Nouvelle cement plant. The project has an investment of Euro7.5m with support from ADEME. It has included the installation of a drying workshop, a storage and feeding system to the kiln and a chlorine bypass for the kiln. It is intended to help the cement plant use solid recovered fuel (SRF) achieve a co-processing rate of over 90% by 2022.
The cement plant in Occitanie has been using alternative fuels including used tires, animal meal or industrial wood since 1988. Following the installation of a crushed solid waste valorisation workshop in 2011 it achieved a substitution rate of over 60% in 2018.
