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Eclépens Cement Plant
Water

Be cool with cooling SWITZERLAND

water and save Cement

freshwater CEW

Opportunity Results
To reduce freshwater • Recycling of cooling
withdrawal by optimizing water increased from
existing water recycling less than 10% in 2020 to
installation and more than 30% in 2022
optimization of cooling • Total freshwater
water use. withdrawal reduced by
3
about 270,000 m (from
Solution 1,350 to 910 l/t cem) Simon Kronenberg
Used cooling and surface CEO
water is collected in a
pond and after quality
control released to
a creek. An existing
recirculation installation
was optimized and
cooling water flow
through unused
installations was reduced. Thomas Richner
Head of
Environment &
Process

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