CEMEX in Costa Rica has successfully implemented a United Nations-certified Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) that substitutes conventional fossil fuels such as petroleum coke, fuel oil, and natural gas with more environmentally friendly local biomass products such as rice husks and wood chips.
The biomasses are now used in cement kilns to serve as fuel during calcination, an important component of the cement-making process in which raw materials are heated to temperatures of nearly 1,500 degrees Celsius. Reaching these extreme temperatures takes an incredible amount of energy, making alternatives to fossil fuels a crucial part of CEMEX’s strategy to reduce its environmental footprint.
CEMEX’s Costa Rican operations currently have a 20% alternative fuels substitution rate and this project alone helped avoid 21,000 metric tons of CO2 from being emitted on a yearly basis, equivalent to taking 7,000 cars off the roads for an entire year, equivalent to approximately the number of passenger vehicles in a mid-size city in Costa Rica.
The use of alternative fuels is a crucial part of CEMEX’s energy strategy. On a global basis we substantially increased the use of alternative fuels from 10.3% in 2008 to 16.4% in 2009. We have already exceeded our 2015 target, and remain on track to reach our 2020 target of 23%.
This initiative in Costa Rica is part of our global energy strategy and highlights CEMEX’s commitment to both Operational Efficiency and Sustainable Development.
Thursday, February 07, 2019
CEMEX Latam Holdings reports fourth quarter 2018 results
Wednesday, February 06, 2019
CEMEX Latam Holdings, S.A. informs
Thursday, January 31, 2019
CEMEX Latam Holdings, S.A. to report fourth quarter 2018 results on February 7, 2019
Thursday, January 31, 2019
CEMEX plant in Panama recieves Concrete Sustainability Council's Certification
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
CEMEX Paving Innovations Look to Improve Quality of Life for 15,000 people in Panama
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
CLH provides building solutions for low-income housing project in Colombia
Friday, February 03, 2012
CEMEX restores one of the main avenues in Costa Rica using innovative turnkey solution
Monday, October 03, 2011
Port Sandino highway in Nicaragua to be constructed with CEMEX specialty ready-mix concrete
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Construrama, Latin America's largest building materials chain, launches in Costa Rica
Tuesday, June 06, 2017
CEMEX Colombia receives the International Model Company recognition of 2017
Thursday, November 17, 2011
CEMEX upgrades fleet of ready- mix concrete trucks in Nicaragua to strengthen best-in-class...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Caracolito cement plant achieves record production for CEMEX in Colombia
Thursday, May 27, 2010
CEMEX in Costa Rica uses rice husks and wood chips as fuels for its cement production
Monday, February 13, 2017
In CEMEX Colombia, we are peace builders
Thursday, November 24, 2016
CEMEX Develops Floating Concrete Island to Revitalize Mangrove Shorelines
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
CEMEX Supports the Rehabilitation of a Public Space in Panama´s Capital
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
CEMEX Develops Special Ready-Mix Concrete for Colombia’s Longest Bridge