Ecodesign study application to kilns

On 24 June, CEMBUREAU participated in a stakeholders meeting aimed at reviewing the first draft of a report commissioned by DG Enterprise and carried out by Cobham and Bio Intelligence service entitled “Sustainable Industrial Policy – Building on the Eco-design Directive – Energy-Using Products Group Analysis Lot 4: Industrial and Laboratory Furnaces and Ovens - Tasks 1 – 3”.

Industrial and laboratory furnaces and ovens include a very wide variety of equipment and CEMBUREAU believes that cement kilns should not be addressed as the improvement potential is addressed through existing legislation and as there is little potential in terms of new units.

CEMBUREAU will provide the required information to the consultants after the summer as requested.

A second stakeholder’s consultation will be held in the first quarter of 2011 and the final report is expected by the end of 2011.