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By instigating a number of relatively small changes and actions, Bruks Siwertell’s Bjuv-based business unit in Sweden is set to achieve an annual saving of 36 MWh in electricity and 60 MWh in heating; equivalent to around 67.1 metric tons of carbon emissions.

The road-mobile units offer the company a unique combination of asset agility and market-leading through-ship efficiency, and are capable of deploying within an hour of arriving at the quayside. They move between the ports of Suwaiq, Sultan Qaboos, and Sur in Oman, directly discharging cement to bulk trucks

Even if humanity woke up tomorrow to find every kilowatt of fossil fuel energy replaced with wind, hydroelectric, solar and nuclear, there would still be work to do. Reversing the effects of climate change will be a matter of reducing the CO2 already in the atmosphere, as well as preventing more. Any realistic decarbonization scenario will necessarily include both.

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As part of its climate action strategy, Bruks Siwertell Group company, FTG Baltic, has completed a tree planting project in Pakeriai, a village in the Lithuanian district of Zarasai. It is estimated that the trees will absorb approximately 137.5 metric tons of CO2 annually, contributing to the Group’s environmental sustainability targets and engagement with climate change mitigation initiatives.

This is the decade of action. Global commitment to alter the course of climate change has never been more urgent. The landscape of energy insecurity against a backdrop of surging demand, is complex, and as commitments to targeted emissions reductions loom ever closer, how are governments meeting them and enabling power generators to plug the fossil fuel gap?

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A preventative strategy to mitigate the risk of water pollution has been instigated at Bruks Siwertell Group company, West Salem Machinery (WSM). The North American engineering and manufacturing specialist is based in Oregon, and has installed geotextile filters on all its storm drains to help slow-down or stop the flow of undesirable material entering the watercourse.

Global trade in alumina is booming. According to leading strategic market insight company, Precedence Research, the global alumina market size stood at around USD 41 billion in 2022, with around half of that attributed to the Asia Pacific (APAC) market. By the end of 2032, the global alumina market is anticipated to reach around USD 64.59 billion, with the compound growth rate predicted at 4.7 percent during the forecast period 2023 to 2032.

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An energy-mapping project at the FTG Cranes Bäckefors site in Sweden, has provided new insights for the business unit to explore, including the replacement and repositioning of two ageing compressors with a single, efficient new unit. As a result, the site has reduced its annual energy consumption by 49,000 kWh.

A pair of recently acquired and recommissioned Siwertell road-mobile ship unloaders, one 5 000 S and one 10 000 S, have been brought back to peak performance for Pioneer Cement LLC, headquartered in Muscat, Oman.

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Bruks Siwertell Group aims to set the sustainability standard for the industries that it serves, and integral to that is its personnel. Building on the success of last year’s voluntary health challenge, this year’s wellbeing support saw 19 teams pull together to encourage each other during a friendly, six-week health boost.