Environmental Investment at DDC

Duna-Dráva Cement Kft. has launched an almost HUF 7 billion new environmental investment with a purpose of reducing dust emission to the minimal level. The modernization contributes to the growth of operational safety,  helps sustainable cement production, and ensures that our company stays a reliable and stable employer in the area for the next decades.

Duna-Dráva Cement Kft. has had a dominant economic role in the life of Vác and its surrounding region for more than half a century as the company is one of the biggest employers of the area. One of the most important pillars of our philosophy is sustainability, and we support it with our corporation routines – such as moderate energy and mineral resource management or waste sorting – and with our social responsibility programs. The Vác Plant reached a new milestone in 2016 when we started a complex modernization process based on the maximum trust of the ownership structure.

The environmental investment will enable a more eco-friendly cement production which will easily fit the ever tightening emission limits to be published in 2020.

The technical development starts in the summer of 2016 and it will probably last until April 2018. With the use of the more modern technological solutions we will take another step towards sustainability.

We will change our furnace filters, which leads us to a reduced amount of emission, and the use of carbon-petroleum coke fuels will also decrease. We will increase our use of eco-friendly, fully overseen and safe substitute fuels instead.

“Our principle is to work with modern technology, but at the same time we want to preserve sustainability and environmental protection, so we would like to apply the highest technical solutions that are possible in this situation. With the support of our owners we implement an environmental development that will allow us to continue our production activity in more modern circumstances, while keeping the protection of nature in mind. We had a similar modernization investment in the Beremend Plant in 2008, and as a result we gained a significant (90%) decrease of dust emission. Our purpose is to achieve a similarly low, minimal emission in the Vác Plant  in order to strengthen our role in the area and to guarantee employment to the residents for the next decades” – said János Szarkándi, president and CEO of DDC.