Suez Cement inaugurates €5m waste-processing plant

Suez Cement Group of Companies (SCGC) cut the ribbon on their latest project, the waste-treatment plant, located inside the company’s Kattameya cement plant. The new facility is worth €5m and was completed over a period of one year.

The cement company highlighted that the facility is the first in Egypt and will work on turning pre-sorted waste to fuel.

Minister of Environmental Affairs Leila Iskander was present during the plant’s inauguration.

Suez Cement aims to boost the amount of energy it acquires via refuse-derived fuels (RDFs). The plant will process kilotons of waste and provide up to 20% of fuels required by the plant. The company reported, in an official statement, that the new facility is “expected to reduce CO2 emissions by 39,600 tons per year, thus mitigating the possible future negative impacts from coal compared to mazut”.