HARLEYVILLE, S.C., June 27,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Giant Cement Holding, Inc.
(GCHI) is proud to announce that our plants in Harleyville, including Giant Cement Company
(GCC) and Giant Resource Recovery, Inc. (GRR!), were awarded top
honors in the Environmental Performance category at the 2024 Energy
and Environmental Awards by the Portland Cement Association
(PCA). The PCA announced the winners of the Energy and
Environment Awards, Chairman's Safety and Safety Innovation Awards
during the 2024 Cement Fly-in earlier this month in Washington, D.C.
PCA sponsors the cement industry awards to highlight company
teams excelling in implementing new energy and environmental
initiatives, enhancing overall on-the-job safety, and surpassing
required environmental and community relations efforts. Submissions
from plants across the U.S. were evaluated and recognized for
environmental efforts completed in 2023.
The Environmental Performance Award recognized the improved
reliability of Giant Cement and Giant Resource Recovery's
alternative fuel feed systems in Harleyville which lowered greenhouse gas
emissions (GHGs) and avoided sending materials to the landfill or
other incineration processes. This year's award follows PCA honors
in 2022 when Harleyville plants
were honored in the Environmental Performance category for their
remarkable carbon dioxide emissions reductions.
"Our plant teams are dedicated to improving sustainability and
reducing our carbon footprint, as evidenced by this achievement,"
said Stephen Holt, Executive Vice
President, Giant Resource Recovery, Inc. and Vice President of
Environmental Affairs, GCHI who received the award.
GCC and its sister company GRR! operate one of the most
innovative alternative fuels energy recovery recycling operations,
recognized as the most modern cement plant in South Carolina for alternative fuel
utilization.
GCC and GRR! are distinguished not only by their ability to
co-process alternative fuels at high rates but also as one of only
a few cement kilns in the U.S. capable of processing both liquid
and solid alternative fuels. Co-processing alternative fuels lowers
emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide and reduces
GHGs.
GCHI is part of the Fortaleza Materiales Group, an international
building materials corporation.
GCHI's Cement Division services the eastern U.S. with Giant Cement,
Keystone Cement and Dragon Products. In the energy recovery sector,
Giant Resource Recovery operates across a large geographic
footprint through its five eastern locations.
CONTACT: Mary Beth Kramer
Kramer Consulting
(215) 431-3946
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