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UK: Tarmac has started a long-term slag stevedoring contract with Associated British Ports (ABP) at Port Talbot in Wales. The new arrangement at Port Talbot will see ABP load 300,000t/yr of ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS). The slag will then typically be used in concrete production elsewhere in the UK. The agreement follows other partnerships between Tarmac and ABP at existing ports in Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Garston (Liverpool), Southampton and Ipswich.

Andrew Harston, ABP Wales and Short Sea Ports director, said, “ABP continues to invest in its ports’ infrastructure and services, as well as sustainability measures, and we are delighted to win this new contract with Tarmac, which shares our commitments to the highest standards of health and safety, and sustainability.”

US: Montana Environmental Trust Group says that it has awarded a contract for the haulage of 2Mt of zinc slag from the East Helena slagheap in Montanato New York-based Metallica Commodities Corporation. Montana Environmental Trust Group said that Metallica Commodities Corporation will convey 20,000t/month of slag by rail to Vancouver for export. The volume corresponds to 14% of a 14Mt supply contract with a South Korea-based zinc smelting company.

Netherlands: Ecocem Benelux has inaugurated a new 5000t export silo at its Moerdijk ground granulated blastfurnace slag (GGBS) plant. The new silo has been built at the waterfront in Moerdijk and rests on 65 piles sunk to a depth of up to 50m. The system operates via a screw extractor that conveys the GGBS to the centre of the bulk silo, where screws and a bucket elevator carry it to the new 150m³ day-silo. Both trucks and ships can be directly loaded from the silo: trucks on the weighing bridge situated under the silo and ships via a pneumatic transport installation with a maximum capacity of 250t/hr.

Ecocem Benelux is a subsidiary of Ireland’s Ecocem Materials. Ecocem Benelux supplies GGBS in bulk to the Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) market for both concrete and mortars. The facility also exports to the Swedish market. Since opening in 2002 the plant has doubled its production capacity to 0.65Mt/yr.

Argentina: Holcim Argentina plans to start a slag import programme due to lack of local supply. Its sister company LG Trading, also owned by LafargeHolcim, will arrange the purchases subject to local regulations and permitting. Three ships with a capacity of 40,000t will be contracted at first to import slag from October to December 2017. Slag from the programme will be used at the cement producer’s Campana grinding plant near Buenos Aires.