OREANDA-NEWS. EUROCEMENT Group is conducting continuous modernization of its various companies, with the aim of enhancing product quality, reducing energy losses and improving the effect on the environment. In 2013, the Holding invested over 15 million rubles in Belgorodskiy Cement. A whole series of large-scale projects were carried out using these funds.

One of the top-priority areas of the company's investment program is reducing negative impact on the environment. In order to cut the amount of damage done to the environment, projects were carried out in December 2013 related to the modernization of cement grinding filter No.11 and the filters on packing machines Nos. 1 and 2. As a result of the replacement of these machines, a substantial cut in harmful emissions was achieved.

In April, state-of-the-art gas analysis equipment was installed at six of the clinker furnaces at Belgorodskiy Cement, thereby enabling a substantial reduction in fuel costs and a reduction in emissions into the atmosphere.

EUROCEMENT Group is providing priority funding for nature preservation measures, and introducing 'green' resource-saving technologies. One of the projects with the biggest scope in recent years was the program to reconstruct all the electro-filters in the revolving furnaces at the company Belgorodskiy Cement. EUROCEMENT Group has invested over 400 million rubles in this project. As a result, the level of dust emissions at the company was reduced by more than 4 times, and brought into line with the requirements not just of Russian regulations, but also of European regulations: no more than 50 mg per m3," said the CEO of Belgorodskiy Cement, Viktor Khludeev.

In January 2013, the main cylinder of revolving furnace No.7 was modernized, which helped to stabilize it and increased the equipment's efficiency ratio.

At present, a project involving the replacement of the cable lines, which was begun in 2013, is going full-steam ahead. The successful implementation of this project will help to make the plant's energy-saving processes more reliable.

In September 2013, a new set of machinery was brought in at the Polygon quarry, where raw material is extracted for cement production: a caterpillar bulldozer made by CHETRA, a self-propelled MoAZ scraper, intended for layered soil extraction, and an all-terrain vehicle for use in lifting operations. The machinery purchased is being used to work on the section of the quarry that features complex geological conditions.