Taiwan Cement Low Carbon Cement has laid out its global territory and officially entered Cameroon in central Africa. CIMPOR, a Portuguese subsidiary of Taiwan Cement, opened the world's first cement plant with innovative cement process and no cement kiln in Cameroon on July 19, local time. The new Taiwan Cement Cameroon plant, located in Kribi, was jointly announced by Cameroonian Prime Minister Joseph, Taiwan Cement General Manager Cheng Yaohui and CIMPOR CEO Suat Calbiyik.
Cameroonian Prime Minister Joseph (center) attended the opening ceremony
of the new Taiwan Cement Plant. The cement plant uses a large amount of low-carbon calcined clay to replace the high-carbon clinker used in traditional cement plants. Because of the use of calcined clay, the cement production process does not require high temperature, which reduces energy use. Therefore, the low-carbon cement produced by Taiwan Cement Cameroon Plant reduces carbon by 40% compared with traditional cement. Zhang Anping, chairman of
Taiwan Cement, said that he hoped that Cameroon's abundant green energy would make the new plant the world's lowest carbon building materials factory and produce the world's lowest carbon cement. He also hoped that the new cement process technology launched by Taiwan Cement in Cameroon would help the global construction industry reduce carbon and actively meet the 2050 net zero emission target.
Taiwan Cement Corporation Chairman Chang An-ping points out that he visited Cameroon more than 20 years ago. At that time, it was found that Cameroon was a beautiful country full of potential for development. It has a good agricultural base and mineral deposits, and the residents are very friendly. He is very happy to return to Cameroon after more than 20 years to build a factory, practice low-carbon production and help local economic development. The TCC Cameroon plant gives priority to employing local people, and the upstream and downstream industrial chain is expected to lead to the creation of 10,000 jobs. The new
Taiwan Cement Cameroon plant in Yaounde, the
capital of Cameroon, has three features: the use of low-carbon calcined clay, the availability of green electricity from abundant hydropower, and the use of biomass fuel. Portugal's CIMPOR, which is currently 100% owned by
Taiwan Cement, has the world's leading calcined clay production technology, deOHClay. The main raw material used in the Cameroon plant is calcined clay. Because the calcined clay does not contain carbonate, it will not produce carbon dioxide in the heat treatment process. Only water vapor and some minor emissions will be released.
The Cameroon plant also uses cocoa shells and cashew shells from Africa as biomass fuels to replace coal used in traditional cement plants, which can not only greatly reduce carbon production, but also reduce temperature consumption by 40%.
If compared with traditional cement plants, TCC Cameroon Calcined Clay Cement Plant can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 200000 tons per year, with a carbon reduction of 40%.
Taiwan Cement's new plant
in Cameroon benefited from the completion of the delivery of CIMPOR in Portugal and OYAK in Turkey in March this year, which has contributed nearly NT 20 billion to Taiwan Cement's revenue as of June this year. Among them, CIMPOR will enter Africa in 2020. At present, it has cement plants in Cote d'Ivoire and Cameroon, and actively develops volcanic ash to replace clinker in Cape Verde. In the future, it will continue to build a third cement plant with low-carbon cement production technology in the Republic of Ghana. The
newly opened Taiwan Cement Cameroon plant will produce 1.2 million tons of cement and 400000 tons of calcined clay annually. Cameroonian Prime Minister Joseph said that the opening of the new Taiwan Cement Cameroon calcined clay plant is in line with the "import substitution policy" of the Cameroonian government, which hopes to reduce the dependence on imported raw materials. The plant uses a large number of local raw materials in production. Clinker imports have been reduced by 40-50%.
