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Transenergy

CEMEX has been consuming petcoke during the production of cement since the mid 1990’s and now consumes and trades around 4 to 6 million tons of petcoke and coal per year.

Because of this activity, CEMEX formed Transenergy to manage the trading relationships between CEMEX, its suppliers, and external customers, whilst developing and securing a robust global trading network.

Products and Services

Petcoke

Coal

Aditional Services

Petcoke

Petroleum coke is a byproduct of the Coker refinery with high calorific value and despite its higher sulfur content it has been widely used in the cement industry and power plants.

Coal

Coal is one of the world’s most important sources of energy, fuelling almost 40% of electricity worldwide. Coal has been the world’s fastest growing energy source in recent years – faster than gas, oil, nuclear, hydro and renewables.

Aditional Services

Based on our experience, CEMEX can offer technical assistance in the use of petcoke – we can analyze the options for a successful transition from traditional fuel to petcoke firing. We have gathered a vast amount of know-how and experience in overcoming the operational problems related to petcoke firing. By altering the kiln parameters or changing the raw mix composition, we can optimize your kiln system for petcoke firing and offer a systematic program.

ADDING VALUE

Supply Assurance/Continuity – Given the strong petcoke portfolio that we have and our long-standing relationships with many major refineries around the world, CEMEX is in a position to be able to offer a highly competitive long term petcoke supply agreement.

WITH WHOM DO WE TRADE?

We have long standing relationships for the purchase of petcoke and coal with some of the world’s major producers.

Originally Transenergy only traded within CEMEX operations, however due to increased demand, we have expanded Transenergy to new customers such as other cement producers, power stations etc. in fact to anyone with a broad requirement for petcoke & coal.

WHERE DO WE TRADE?

Our trading network is vast and covers almost every continent, the majority of our petcoke and coal is sourced from the USA and South America, but we also have operations in Europe and Asia. As a result of this coverage, we sell to and trade with clients on every major continent.

Alternate Fuels

FROM WASTE TO FUEL

We have experience acquiring, processing, storing and recovering energy from alternative sources in a responsible way. We are sure that increasing the co-processing of waste that comes from other industry in our cement plants, will contribute more to face challenges like Climate Change, waste management and will reduce the use of fossil fuels, based on the principles of circular economy.

Our strong commitment to migrate to cleaner energy sources and our ongoing efforts to replace traditional fossil fuels, such as pet coke, with low carbon alternatives, or even zero emissions technologies, generated very good results this year. After several years with many challenges, this year we increased our use of alternative fuels again, going from 23.3% in 2016 to 26.2% in 2017, while generating savings of US $ 123 million per year.

ALTERNATE FUEL RATE
(PERCENTAGE)

At the end of last year, 92% of our plants used about 3 million tons of alternative fuels, with which we avoided the use of 1.8 million tons of coal. Of these, our cement plants with the highest rates of alternative fuel use last year were Chelm in Poland, Prachovice in Czech Republic, Broceni in Latvia, Clinchfield in the US and Rüdersdorf in Germany. Together, these five plants used more than 9000,000 tons of waste as fuel

However, every region in which we operate is different, therefore we face several challenges that prevent us from using more alternative fuels, such as: availability and quality of waste, infrastructure and logistics, regulation of co-processing and permits, the market’s dynamics, economic factors and technical limitations.

Despite this, we continue to work towards achieving our clean energy goals, while remaining as leaders in the use of alternative fuels to produce cement.

To contribute to a greater substitution of fossil fuels, this year we created the Global Alternative Fuel Group of CEMEX, composed of a multidisciplinary group of experts on key issues such as Energy, Sustainability, Operations and Technology, Supply, Corporate Affairs, Communications, Social Responsibility and Risk Management. This group allows us to deeply evaluate and analyze specific challenges and opportunities to continue growing alternative fuels consumption in each of our cement plants. This guarantees a deep evaluation and allows CEMEX to address issues from a holistic point of view.

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