Companies in various industries are under growing pressure to assess the costs of decarbonizing their operations. This paper develops a generic abatement cost concept to identify the cost-efficient combination of technological and operational changes firms would need to implement to drastically...

Leilac is a technology partner working towards a sustainable future for cement and lime production. Their goal is to develop a cost-effective solution to reduce carbon emissions and enable producers to take immediate action against climate change. The Low Emissions Intensity Lime And Cement...

Leilac is a technology partner working towards a sustainable future for cement and lime production. Their goal is to develop a cost-effective solution to reduce carbon emissions and enable producers to take immediate action against climate change. The Low Emissions Intensity Lime And Cement...

This paper exploits daily infrared images taken from satellites to track economic activity in advanced and emerging countries. We first develop a framework to read, clean, and exploit satellite images. Our algorithm uses the laws of physics (Planck's law) and machine learning to detect the heat...

Portfolio optimization, which is performed while investing in any asset, is an important issue for all investors and finance researchers. In this study, the Artificial Hummingbird Optimization Algorithm (AHA), which has been proposed in recent years, was implemented for portfolio optimization by...

This paper evaluates the impact of a policy that was implemented to reduce the energy intensity of firms in some manufacturing sectors in India, on the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of firms and on its components, scale efficiency and technical change. Using plant-level panel data on...

Accounting for nearly 8% of global annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the cement industry is considered difficult to decarbonize. While a sizeable number of abatement levers for Portland cement production are technologically ready for deployment, many are still viewed as prohibitively...

Reaching carbon neutrality necessitates radical changes in terms of energy sources and industrial technologies. Some industries such as cement and lime emit significant amounts of process emissions, which will continue to be generated regardless of the type of energy source employed. One way to...

The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) entered into application in its transitional phase on 1 October 2023. CBAM is the EU's landmark tool to put a fair price on the greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted during the production of certain GHG-intensive goods, including cement, entering the...

Purpose: This paper aims to identify, analyze, model the risk elements in the supply chain and further set future trends to evaluate risks in other domains of cement manufacturing industry. Cement is the second most consumed material in the world, has a fast supply chain in the global market....

Accounting for nearly 8% of global annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the cement industry is considered difficult to decarbonize. While a sizeable number of abatement levers for Portland cement production are technologically ready for deployment, many are still viewed as prohibitively...

The productivity growth has an important linkage with economic growth and standard of living. It not only increases output but also improves the efficiency level of firms/industries through better utilization of factors of production, and therefore public policies aim at improving productivity....

Delays has been a major concern at most manufacturing companies. A rising number of consumers have made several complaints about delays in getting their delivery, and these complaints have been made on many occasions. This problem has been made significantly worse by the fact that the...

The effect of individual-level daily silicon dust exposure from cement production on the probability of hospital admissions for respiratory-related reasons is examined. The dataset was collected at the cement plant in Bryanskii region, Russia. We use an aerodynamic dispersion model to calculate...

The choice of the right cement brand is challenging since cement is the main building material used in civil engineering projects. As a result, its demand is quite high. Two companies, Lafarge and Zambezi Portland Cement, have controlled Zambia's cement market for the past twenty years. Cement...

Sustainability reporting is an essential tool that firms use to communicate regarding their sustainability performance and its impact on the four pillars of sustainability viz. human, environmental, social, and economical. Studies have reported that efficient sustainability communication can...

The cement industry which is characterised by the highest carbon intensity per unit of revenue among all major industries needs to rapidly reduce their CO2 equivalent (CO2e) emissions to reach carbon neutrality. To do so economically optimal strategies for emission reductions need to be...

We examine local market concentration and markups in the United States cement industry over 1974-2016. We estimate a model in which buyers use a second-score auction to procure cement from spatially differentiated plants. The model matches aggregated outcomes in the data, and the implied...

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of the controlled growth of yttria-stabilized zirconia (Y-PSZ) transformed layer and silica deposition via Room-Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition (RT-ALD) on bond strength between Y-PSZ and resin cement.Material and Methods: Y-PSZ specimens...

Fly ash has been used as cementitious materials for solid waste immobilization. However, fly ash typically contains the hazardous elements Se, Cr, As, and B, and the leachability of these anions is a concern for its reuse. In this study, five amino acids were selected as models of simplified...

The uranium reconversion process is performed to convert concentrated UF6 into UO2. Ca(OH)2 is used to neutralize liquid waste generated during the uranium reconversion process, and all waste generated during this process is then collectively named lime waste. The present study aimed to improve...

The working fluid in geothermal wells often contains naturally occurring CO2. In an aqueous environment, CO2 forms carbonic acid and subsequently reacts with the binding components of cement, resulting in the loss of strength and early failure. Well cement formulations containing hydroxyapatite...

The high concentration of fluoride and phosphate in phosphogypsum leachate is harmful to the environment and ecosystem. Thus, there is a need to develop feasible materials or technologies to remove both fluoride and phosphate in acidic phosphogypsum leachate. In this study, sulfoaluminate cement...

With the large-scale development of shale gas, oil-based drilling fluids are widely used, generating significant amounts of solid wastes from oil-based shale drilling cutting (OBSDC), which are difficult to degrade and biologically toxic. The current treatment methods do not meet the...

The purpose of the study is to investigate the effect of financial leverage on the corporate financial performance of Dangote Cement Plc (2010-2021). An expo-facto research design with four objectives and one baseline theory anchored this empirical paper. The study covered a population of...

Financial performance is an important aspect which influences the long term stability, profitability, liquidity and turnover of an organization. The Evaluation of financial performance using Ratio Analysis, Trend Analysis had been taken up for the study with “Cement Companies”. The analysis...

Advancement in the nature of business and management performance has pushed the need of people to build a more effective and structural financial measurement. Today it is well settled that the aim of every business entity should be to maximize shareholders’ wealth. As investors world over, are...

Purpose: Cement is a priority consumer good in all modern societies. Considerable portions of the countries' income are invested in construction and reconstruction of houses, shopping centers, schools, universities, research centers, pavements, bridges, dams, among other infrastructures. In view...

The paper makes an attempt to compare the financial performance of different companies of cement industry using composite index based developed with the Ordered Weighted Average (OWA) method. The financial performance of the different companies is measured based on parameters like Growth,...