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Case Study:
CEMEX quarries and plants receive broad
recognition for conservation efforts
In 2012, pilot-stage BAPs will be launched in at least one
site in each of the six CEMEX regions: South America and the
Caribbean, Asia, Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, Mexico,
and the USA. A continuing relationship with BirdLife International
and its national partners will be an instrumental part
of this process, and CEMEX has authorized a new budget to
make this collaboration possible. In turn, BirdLife International
has reinforced its staffing by adding a new Program
Manager to the partnership, whose work will be dedicated to
advancing collaboration with CEMEX in the coming years.
CEMEX works to minimize environmental disturbances
throughout its entire manufacturing process and even
after the use of facilities has been discontinued. Our plant
management and quarry rehabilitation efforts, in particular,
have received international attention for drawing together
strategic environmental protection processes, educational
resources for communities and stakeholders, and comprehensive
conservation initiatives.
CEMEX USA
Five of CEMEX’s mining, quarry, and plant sites have been
inducted into the Wildlife Habitat Council’s Collaborative
Conservation Program as Partners. These sites include quarries
in Fairborn, Ohio, and Brooksville and Miami, Florida;
a sand mine in Clermont, Florida; and a cement plant in
Louisville, Kentucky.
Each of these operations has been recognized for having
progressive land-management and wildlife conservation
programs as well as environmental education initiatives.
The partially active CEMEX quarries in Fairborn, Ohio, have
received a 2011 Reclamation Achievement Award from the
Ohio Aggregates and Industrial Minerals Association. Ongoing
efforts to rehabilitate the Fairborn quarry sites have helped
reduce environmental disturbances and improve long-term
options for repurposing the land. In 2008, a CEMEX clay mine
site in Beavercreek, Ohio, received the same award.
CEMEX UK
In October 2011, CEMEX UK received the Natural England
Biodiversity award for rehabilitation efforts at its Rugeley
quarry in Staffordshire. CEMEX voluntarily avoided quarrying
the site to maximum permitted depths, to ensure that the
80-hectare area could be rehabilitated into a lowland dry
heathland—an essential habitat for local species.
In Branton, England, a former CEMEX mining site was successfully
converted into a 29-acre bird and wildlife sanctuary—inhabited
by over 140 different animal species—and is
now open for public enjoyment.
CEMEX Poland
The year 2011 was a productive one for CEMEX’s Chelm
plant in Poland. Not only did the plant win two awards at
the 2011 International EcoForum conference—in recognition
of environmental responsibility through innovation—Chelm
also became one of only 28 Polish business operations to
meet the criteria of the European Eco-Management and
Audit Scheme (EMAS). Registration with EMAS—an advanced,
voluntary environmental management instrument—reflects
the integrity of management practices at Chelm and signals
the plant’s ongoing commitment to transparency and its
environmental priorities.
Left: Demopolis
Cement Plant in
Alabama, Portland.
Cement Association´s
Sustainability Award
Winner
Right: Quarry
rehabilitation in the UK
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