Cutting down on emissions - Sagar Cements Limited

Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) are one of the prime reasons of global warming. They tap heat, warming the globe, polluting air and leading to a rise in natural calamities. There is an exigent need to apply mitigation measures to stabilise the concentration of GHGs in the atmosphere.

Our initiatives to reduce GHGs emissions

Business travel reduced by opting for video conference of monthly and other review meetings
Employees encouraged to use bicycles in the plant
Employees provided with free metro pass to avoid use of oil-fired vehicles
Efforts made to improve the clinker conversion factor
Regular interactive meetings held with builders, masons, engineers and dealers for promoting use of blended cements, reducing cement ratio
Recycling and reuse of cement bags promoted
Use of recycled plastic as feed to cement bag manufacturing being encouraged

Transporters encouraged to regularly service the fleet to reduce specific fuel consumption and removed poor-performing fleet from operations
Alternate fuels, spent carbon, carbon black being used regularly; about 2.5% Thermal Substitution Rate (TSR) achieved
5% of performance improvement being added in clinker grinding
Process expert control, blend expert control, etc. and other feasible software tools being used to better resource efficiency and reduce GHG emissions
M/s Hitachi Consulting collaborating for digitalisation of plant operations and deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) tools for betterment of resource efficiency and reduction of GHG emissions