Cement Energy and Environment

READERSWRITE The Editorial Board have great pleasure introducing this new column which will regularly carry Readers' views on the articles publjsbed in Cement, Energy and Environment : Environmental Control at Lakshmi Cement, Jan. 2000 Volume IV No. 1 (January 2000 Edition) of Cement, Energy & Environment has brought out a case-study byLaksbmj Cement which has shown annual savings of Rs. 21 lakhs after environmental modification. This is very interesting. CMA should include such type of case-studies if carried out by other leading cement manufacturers in the country and elsewhere in the world. July and October 1999 issues Dr. S.C. Lahiry Yojana We have seen two copies of this publication (July and October 1999) and would like to find out how we may continue to see tllis excellent newsletter. We would be grateful fur any information. Maggie Britt British Cement Association UPDATE ON ISO 14000ACCREDITATION R rther to the 14 cement plants listed in the last issue, the following 3 have rep01ted their accreditation for ISO 14000 on Environmental Management Systems : This brings the taJiy to 17 cement plants : "Cement, Energy and Environment" renews its request tu cement companies to help keep this list updated by intimating ji-esh accreditations. i) ACC Jamul ii) Birla Super Cement, Hotgi iii) Raymond Ltd- Cement Di vn. NCB UPDATES GUIDE NORMS FOR CEMENT PLANT OPERATIONS P ·oductivity enhancement through monitoring on modern scientific lines can be a powerful tool in improving a cement plant's performance. One way of achieving this is to monitor the various physical and process parameters of vari ous unit operations and processes starting from quarrying right up to fi nish 20 gri nding and packjng. For this purpo. e, individual cement plants need to appraise and audit their performance to identify the factors impeding higher productivity and initiate conective actions . The performance of each section is to be systematically analysed and evaluated towards reorganising it to realise its full potential. -·