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Golden Bay Cement Wins Sustainability Award

At an awards ceremony on 18 October 2010 in Auckland the winners of the fourth annual Fletcher Building Health, Safety & Sustainability Awards were announced.

Golden Bay Cement won the Fletcher Building award for the Most Effective Sustainability Initiative for the increased replacement of fossil fuels (coal) with renewable biomass, from 16.3% to 25.2% substitution over the past year.

Co-processing Engineer, Russell Dyer and Environment Manager, Paul Bonetti ( 2nd & 3rd from left) accepted the sustainability award on behalf of GBC from FB CEO Jonathan Ling (centre), pictured here with the Heath & Safety Category winners.

Golden Bay Cement is progressively replacing imported fossil fuels (coal) with the locally sourced and renewable alternative, wood chip, for the energy required to produce clinker.  In the 2010 financial year this initiative achieved approximately $2.3 million in savings; a reduction of CO2 emissions by about 52,000 tonnes; and reduced GBC’s Emissions Trading Scheme surrender obligations by 26,000 emission units at a cost saving of approximately $600,000.

The wood waste screw, pulling wood chip from the hopper
onto the conveyor to be fed into the kiln.

Finalists were selected from nominations received from across the FB Group, with final decisions on winners made by a judging panel of internal and external representatives. This year, the Health, Safety and Sustainability Awards attracted more entries across all the countries that Fletcher Building operates in with more than 40% from outside New Zealand. This is the first year that Sustainability has been included in these awards.

For more information on this initiative, refer to the Alternative Energy Project resource profile here.

Cementing their Support 

Golden Bay Cement and Pacific Steel have re-signed an agreement to support teaching and research into structural concrete design in The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Read more...

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