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Holcim Waste Management

  • Holcim is working within existing material specification standards to replace cement clinker with mineral components such as fly ash, a waste material from coal-burning electric utilities, and slag, a waste by-product of steel manufacturing.  Each ton of clinker eliminated avoids one ton of CO2 emissions that would have resulted from its manufacture.  The company has eliminated 400,000 tons of CO2 as a result of clinker-factor reductions, and is working with government agencies and construction material specifiers to encourage further use of lower clinker-factor cements in concrete.

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