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Alliance for a Competitive European Industry
Alliance of Energy Intensive Industries
Non-Energy Extractive Industries Panel
REACH consortium "flue dust from cement clinker production"
Sustainable Process Industry through Resource and Energy Efficiency
ZVC SR - (Association of Slovak Cement Producers )
Hungarian Cement Concrete & Lime Association
Heidelberg Materials Kunda AS-i
Heidelberg Materials Cement Sverige
Heidelberg Materials Sement Norge
France Ciment / Organisation professionnelle de l'industrie cimentière française
MPA – Minerals Products Association - Cement
VÖZ – Vereinigung der Österreichischen Zementindustrie / Association of the Austrian Cement Industry
BACI - Bulgarian Association of Cement Industry
Svaz výrobcu cementu CR / Czech Cement Association
VDZ– Verein Deutscher Zementwerke e.V.
PCA – Stowarzyszenie Producentów Cementu / The Polish Cement Association
ATIC – Associação Técnica da Indústria de Cimento / Technical Association of the Cement Industry
Cementa Industrija Srbije / Serbian Cement Industry Association
Oficemen – Agrupación de Fabricantes de Cemento de España / Association of Spanish Cement Producers
UKRCEMENT - Association of Cement Producers of Ukraine
Hellenic Cement Industry Association
Febelcem – Fédération de l’Industrie Cimentière Belge / Association of the Belgian Cement Industry
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Key Facts
The investment cost of cement plants is usually above €200M per million tonnes of annual capacity, with correspondingly high costs for modifications. The cost of a new cement plant is equivalent to around 30 years of turnover, which ranks the cement industry among the most capital intensive industries. The estimated investments costs of decarbonisation range from €200 – 500M for a capture plant in the cement industry.
Land transportation costs are significant. Cement is transported in Europe over shorter distances, normally not exceeding 400 km from cement plants and terminals or ports to the concrete producers. Oversea transport of cement is, due to the size of the bulk carriers relative cheap. It is cheaper to cross the Atlantic Ocean with 35 000 tonnes of cargo than to truck it 300 km.
Each tonne of cement produced requires 60 to 130 kilogrammes of fuel oil or its equivalent, depending on the cement type and the process used, and about 120 KWh of electricity.
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