| Alternative Fuels and Raw Materials (AFR) - Holcim Switzerland |
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Description Holcim Switzerland is one of the most prominent examples of good AFR business development in the Group. |
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Objective In the early 1990s, driven by the financial and environmental benefits of using waste as a fuel, and a temporary shortage of landfill and incineration capacity in Switzerland, stakeholders came together to address the use of alternative fuels and raw materials in the cement industry. |
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ActivitiesTogether they developed an agreed framework of clear rules for regulation of the environmental and societal aspects of the use of alternative fuels and raw materials. Today, the company’s five cement plants have thermal substitution rates of between 10 and 60%, using wastes including solvents, waste oil, plastic and used tires. |
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Results Continuing engagement with stakeholders has enabled Holcim Switzerland to use a variety of other alternative fuels and raw materials. These include dried sludge from sewage treatment and animal meal from the preventive slaughtering of cattle potentially infected with BSE (“mad cow disease”). |
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