Geocycle and Lafarge Canada, together with the Department of Natural Resources Canada, have opened a new low-carbon fuel plant at the Lafarge Canada Brookfield cement plant in Nova Scotia. The facility, which cost over US$7.5m and received US$2.6m in federal funding, will convert 14,000t/yr of discarded materials headed for landfill into low-carbon fuels, reducing the
Lafarge Canada and Geocycle Canada have successfully completed a pilot at the Lafarge Brookfield cement plant in Nova Scotia to produce clinker using recycled minerals from discarded material. This pilot can potentially cut CO₂ emissions by 60% of clinker. The new clinker product will be used to produce recycled cement in 2024. CEO of Lafarge
Lafarge Canada has transitioned its St-Constant, Quebec, cement plant to the production of OneCem Portland limestone cement (PLC). The producer expects the transition to reduce the St-Constant cement plant’s CO2 emissions by 60,000t in 2024 alone. Lafarge Canada (East) president and CEO David Redfern said “We are excited to take another crucial step in our sustainability
Holcim has announced plans for a full capital market separation of its North American business. Subject to shareholder approval, it will subsequently list the business in the US in the first half of 2025. The group will communicate the final structure of the separation, which it expects to execute as a spin-off, later in 2024.
Residents of Exshaw and Lac des Arcs, Alberta, near Lafarge Canada’s Exshaw cement plant, have filed a lawsuit over allegedly increasing dust emissions from the plant. Postmedia Breaking News has reported that law firm Napoli Shkolnik Canada said that dust spills occur ‘regularly.’ The plant’s operations allegedly also blacken snow on the ground in the
Lafarge Canada says that it successfully integrated 10,000t of recycled concrete waste in cement production at its St. Constant cement plant in Quebec using its ECOCycle Technology process. The year-long production trial constituted the first phase of Lafarge Canada’s pilot of ECOCycle Technology. The producer says that the achievement solidifies its leading position in North
Holcim subsidiary Lafarge Canada has successfully transitioned its Richmond cement plant to exclusively producing ECOPlanet reduced-CO2 cement. The company says that cement produced at the plant in British Columbia will offer at least 30% reduced CO2 emissions compared with ordinary Portland cement (OPC). Lafarge Canada West president and chief executive officer Brad Kohl said “This
Lafarge Canada signed a tri-partite agreement with Dimensional Energy and Svante Technologies for the construction of a synthetic hydrocarbons plant to use captured CO2 from its Richmond cement plant on 15 May 2023. The upcoming plant will convert the Richmond cement plant’s 1t/day captured CO2 emissions into 1.5 barrels/day of synthetic hydrocarbons. The producer, a subsidiary of
Lafarge Canada has renewed its partnership with fuel logistics company 4Refuel to launch renewable diesel use in its operations in Manitoba. The producer says that trucks will run on renewable diesel produced from waste oils and fats. This will eliminate 39% of the producer’s Scope 3 CO2 emissions in the province. Lafarge Canada’s vice president Manitoba