The cement industry is facing the difficult challenge of green transformation. Data show that China's total carbon emissions in 2023 were 12.6 billion tons, of which 1.21 billion tons were from the cement industry, accounting for 9.6%, second only to the power and steel industries. Accelerating the pace of green low-carbon transformation in an all-round way and promoting the optimization and upgrading of the whole industrial chain are the inevitable choice for the cement industry to achieve high-quality development and the only way to promote the formation of a modern building materials industry system.
Focusing on green transformation and promoting the upgrading
of industrial structure, cement enterprises are promoting joint restructuring through mergers and acquisitions, equity participation and other forms to curb new production capacity from the source and promote it. Reduce and eliminate backward production capacity from the stock, adjust the structure, implement differential control, and promote the sustainable development of the industry.
Promoting green goals and exploring carbon reduction paths
Fuel combustion, electricity consumption and carbonate decomposition of raw materials are the three main sources of carbon emissions in cement production. In view of this, cement enterprises actively explore new ways of green carbon reduction, create a combination of transformation and upgrading, promote the use of non-fossil energy alternative fuels, develop carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technology, expand new energy fields such as photovoltaic power generation, increase investment in energy-saving technology, waste heat power generation, raw material substitution, etc. Accelerate the pace of green transformation.
To build a green future, technological innovation enables cement manufacturing
innovation to be the first productive force leading development, and the realization of the goal of "double carbon" in the cement industry is inseparable from the innovation of science and technology. Cement enterprises carry out in-depth cooperation with universities and scientific research institutions, focusing on the path of carbon reduction at the source, carbon reduction in the process and carbon sequestration at the end, strengthen carbon emission reduction and new material technology research, promote the implementation of ultra-low emission transformation, accelerate the transformation of digital intelligence, and accelerate the research of low carbon, zero carbon and negative carbon technology.
On the journey of green and low carbon, cement enterprises are taking practical actions to interpret the "double carbon" commitment, through the construction of green industrial structure, explore effective carbon reduction paths, improve the scientific and technological innovation system, and go all out to race forward on the track of green transformation. At a time when the
industry is facing severe challenges, it is of immeasurable strategic significance and practical utility to actively promote the upgrading of large-scale production equipment and actively promote the energy-saving technological innovation and environmental protection upgrading and transformation of the cement industry, so as to enhance the core competitiveness of cement enterprises and realize the grand blueprint of sustainable development of the industry.
To this end, China Cement Network will hold the 11th China Cement Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Technology Exchange Conference-Equipment Renewal Forum in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province on June 13-14. This forum will gather government leaders, industry technical specialist, scientific research institutions, universities, cement enterprises and equipment suppliers to discuss and analyze the practical path of equipment renewal and green upgrading in the cement industry, so as to promote the industry to move towards a more energy-efficient, greener and environmentally friendly future.
