Enhance a circular and resource-efficient business model |
To ensure the long-term success of its businesses, LafargeHolcim aims to minimize its environmental impact and maximize its positive contribution. We implement a business model making the best use of water, recovering energy from waste and biomass sources, and enhancing biodiversity preservation.
Our cement, concrete, and aggregates activities and manufacturing processes require natural resources, such as water and energy. But such resources are becoming scarce, and the competition for their use is increasing between domestic purposes, agriculture, and industry. Our quarrying operations can also have an impact on ecosystems.
This is why LafargeHolcim constantly works to optimize its use of natural resources by managing its environmental footprint effectively and creating value where possible by using recycled materials or incorporating other actors in the management of common watershed basins.
We implement a circular and resource-optimized business model, which covers:
In addition to reducing LafargeHolcim's environmental footprint, our natural resource preservation actions aim to meet our local communities' needs:
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LafargeHolcim’s “Geocycle” service |
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In attractive markets with high energy prices, significant quality and quantity of waste, and a favorable regulatory framework, LafargeHolcim develops a business activity called "Geocycle." It offers industries, farming cooperatives and cities a unique and sustainable service that consists of recovering, reprocessing and recycling their waste (chemical waste, foundry sand, other industrial waste, household waste, or rice husks) to turn them into alternative fuels for our kilns and raw materials for the cement production process. |