Cemento de El Salvador S.A. de C.V (CESSA), established in the late 1940s, is the sole cement-producing company in El Salvador with a production of 1,175,000 metric tons in 2001 and employing more than 515 people in its integrated operations and services.
Since 1993, CESSA has been using an eco-efficiency initiative to save energy and improve environmental impacts. The focus of this effort has been the installation of a new production line based on dry furnaces. Previously, three of CESSA’s furnaces had been of the wet rotary type, very inefficient in fuel use. A dry furnace uses a lot less energy. Click here to read more…
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