Sustainability
Earth → product → building
Ceramic runs a closed cycle with nothing foreign entering it. This page says what we have done — and what we have not done yet.
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- ماده اولیه معدنی
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- کاهش مصرف انرژی
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- بازچرخانی ضایعات خام
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- عمر مفید محصول
Life cycle
The life of a block
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Extraction
Clay is quarried from our own site eighteen kilometres from the plant. The short haul means lower transport emissions. Every working face carries a mandatory restoration plan.
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Production
Kiln exhaust heat returns to the dryer. Green waste from before firing goes back into the line in full; fired waste is crushed and used as sub-base material.
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In service
This is where the largest effect happens: the energy saved over fifty years of service is several times the energy used to make the product.
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End of life
Ceramic is an inert mineral material. At demolition it can be crushed and used as fill or sub-base — with no soil contamination.
Honest note
What is still unsolved
Firing ceramic is inherently energy-intensive. Kiln heat recovery solves part of the problem, not all of it. Replacing a share of the fossil fuel and improving the kiln shell insulation is our plan for the next three years. Every figure written on this page comes from our internal monitoring report and can be shown to a client.
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