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Remondis buys majority stake in M Larsen
Written by Global CemFuels staff
26 January 2018
Denmark: Germany’s Remondis has purchased a majority stake in environmental services company M Larsen. Remondis runs a network of water management, recycling and industrial services in Northern Europe. M Larsen is a family-owned environmental service companies based in Bröndby near Copenhagen. Following the acquisition, the management team and owner Claus Barslund will remain part of the company.
N+P Recycling views Chinese plastics ban as an opportunity
Written by Global CemFuels staff
23 January 2018
Netherlands/UK: N+P Recycling says that it views a Chinese import ban on plastics as an opportunity for its business. As the Dutch company offers a variety of waste derived fuels for various applications it is encouraging companies to split both fractions to get the optimal waste solutions for each individual quality. Lower calorific value (CV) products are better suited to waste incineration plants whilst higher CV products are typically used by cement, lime, steel and power plants.
Lower grade materials, typically within an 8 - 12GJ/t range, are supplied within many of N+P’s long-term supply contracts, to users within the UK and within Europe. There are also a number of possibilities for materials that are in-between the standard refuse-derived fuel (RDF) and solid-recovered fuel (SRF) qualities, or mid-CV range (12 - 16 GJ/t). For higher quality materials, N+P has a number of solutions all focused on the replacement of primary fossil fuels such as coal.
N+P Recycling produces a higher CV waste fuel product called Subcoal. It is currently building a Subcoal plant at Teesside in the UK with a production capacity of up to 0.22Mt/yr. It has started to source and contract non-recyclable waste streams such as materials recovery rejects, industrial residues and plastic residues for unit. It is expected to open in the third quarter of 2018.
Insee Ecocyle burns cocaine in Sri Lanka
Written by Global CemFuels staff
23 January 2018
Sri Lanka: Insee Ecocyle, the waste management subsidiary of Insee Group, has helped the Sri Lanka Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) and National Dangerous Drugs Control Board dispose of nearly 1t of cocaine. Confiscated narcotics were burnt in the kiln of Insee Cement plant at Puttalam. according to the Daily Financial Times newspaper. This is the first time that cocaine has been disposed of in this fashion in Sri Lanka.
The confiscated cocaine hydrochloride was co-processed through a liquid feeding channel. It was liquefied in an aqueous medium at the Insee Ecocycle pre-processing facility in Katunayake with the addition of a colouring agent for visual differentiation. The liquefied material was then transported for final disposal to the Puttalam cement plant in purpose-built hazardous waste transporting vehicles, escorted by PNB officials. The local authorities are also considering using the same process to dispose of other illegal recreational drugs including heroin and cannabis.
Cementos Cosmos approved to raise waste fuels substitution rate
Written by Global CemFuels staff
18 January 2018
Spain: Local environment authorities have approved Cementos Cosmos to increases its alternative fuels substitution rate to up to 45% from its current limit of 30%. The plant has been supplementing its petcoke use with refuse-derived fuel (RDF) and biomass, according to the Córdoba newspaper. The plant, and its owners Brazil’s Votorantim Cement, have faced local opposition to changing its fuels mix.
Mineral Products Association welcomes UK government report citing alternative fuels use in cement industry
Written by Global CemFuels staff
18 January 2018
UK: The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has welcomed a report by the Government Chief Scientific Adviser on the value of waste for its referencing of co-processed recycling of waste derived fuels and raw materials in the cement industry. The report, entitled ‘From waste to resource productivity’ by Mark Walport, looks at waste as a resource.
It is accompanied by a case study report that brings together evidence and opinions from a range of stakeholders, including a study from MPA’s Richard Leese and Rebecca Hooper regarding co-processing waste in cement. This document is not a statement of government policy, but the MPA says it is the first UK government report to reference co-processed recycling of waste derived fuels and raw materials.
“UK cement manufacturers recycle 1.5Mt of waste and by-products annually. Government scientists have finally acknowledged the important recycling that the cement industry provides for UK society,” said Richard Leese, MPA’s Director of Industrial Policy, Energy and Climate Change. He added that the next step would be for the government to account for the ‘societal benefit’ of waste products in its official recycling statistics.