Business Wire

Alcoa Reduces Variable Costs with Pavilion Technologies; Pavilion's Advanced Process Control Solution Reduces Process Variability by 75 Percent

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2005--Pavilion Technologies, a world leader in advanced process control (APC) and environmental compliance solutions, announced today that Alcoa World Chemicals ...
Los Angeles Times

Older cement kilns get EPA pass on mercury

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it would not require cement manufacturers -- including the nation’s largest emitter, in Tehachapi, Calif. -- to ...
WESA

Penn study: Changing fuel for cement kilns could cut CO2 emissions. But cost is an obstacle

This Nov. 16, 2015 photo shows a section of the Mississippi Power Co. carbon capture power plant in DeKalb, Miss. Carbon capture entails catching the carbon emissions from a power plant or cement or ...
Los Angeles Times

Cement is a big part of the carbon problem. Here’s how to make it part of the solution

In 2014, hundreds of Angelenos gathered downtown to watch more than 2,000 trucks pour concrete into a vast hole. During that event, Los Angeles set a world record: 80 million pounds of concrete were ...
TechCrunch

Furno bets that super-efficient, modular kilns will turn the cement industry upside down

For every 1,000 kilograms of cement the world produces, 600 kilograms of carbon dioxide are dumped into the atmosphere. If that doesn’t sound like a lot, consider that last year the world made about 4 ...