In the context of the Egyptian environmental regulations, the compliance audit conducted by the Egyptian Pollution Abatement Project (EPAP II) shows that Arabian Cement Company is complying with the applicable regulations in terms of air emissions, wastewater and solid and hazardous waste management practices.

 

However, ACC seeks helping in the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions by partial replacement of fossil fuels by alternate fuels (rejects from municipal solid wastes, dried sewage sludge from water treatment plants, agricultural wastes, and others)

 

Apart from a willingness to play our part in contributing to global greenhouse gas emission reductions, other key driver for ACC is the energy security. Although ACC is equipped to use natural gas, diesel oil or even solid fuels (coal and/or petcoke), with increasing energy costs and concerns over energy availability in the future, it is clearly in ACC’s interest to drive energy efficiency in our production processes and to substitute the valuable fossil fuels with waste-derived fuels wherever possible and feasible.

 

By the end of 2013, ACC started burning alternative fuels and the target is to achieve 30% of its required energy substituted by these alternative fuels within 3 years. Such approach would contribute to the sustainable development in Egypt.

 

It’s worth to mention that ACC has registered its alternative fuel activities as CDM (Clean Development Mechanism, as defined in the Kyoto protocol) and it will result in an average annual emission reduction of approximately 70,000 tons of CO2/yr (over 10 years period).