Akij Cement launches campaign for lessening carbon emission

Akij Cement Company Ltd (ACCL) launched Wednesday a campaign for lessening carbon emission and electricity consumption in its own factory as part of its commitment to making the environment greener.
Under the campaign styled "Let's Turn to Green", the company decided to reduce carbon foot print by 41 per cent.
ACCL managing director Sk. Bashir Uddin formally announced the launching of the campaign at a press conference held at a hotel in the city.
The press conference was attended, among others, by Bodruzzaman Chowdhury, executive director (HR and admin) of Akij Group, SM Oniket Selim, GM (factory) of Akij Cement, Fazle Rabbi Osmani, DGM (sales and marketing), Payar Ahmed Tushar, senior manager (brand and trade marketing) of the company, and Rahber Khan, managing director of Fahrenheit Marketing Communications Ltd.
"By using blast furnace slag with the clinker, a raw material for cement, we reduces carbon foot print by 41 per cent (at least 85kg per metric tonnes), Mr Bashir Uddin told the press conference.
While making a presentation there, the managing director also elaborated on how the company saves electricity consumption by 20,000 mega watts in producing every million tone of Akij Cement.
The ACCL alone produce 1.4 million metric tonnes cement per year while the average annual production of all about the 50 cement factories in the country is 17.5 million metric tonnes, officials said.
As impact of the electricity savings, Mr Uddin said that the total electricity generation capacity of Bangladesh is about 10,000 Megawatt per hour; if all the 50 running cement factories, owned by 44 companies, follow this process, we together can save minimum 350,000 mega watts electricity per hour."
"This 350,000 mega watt electricity per hour will create a significant impact on our national economy," Mr Uddin said.
Akij Cement decided to use blast furnace slag, instead of fly ash, as an ingredient with the basic raw material -clinker, he said.
Expressing his strong commitment to operate the company's function as environmentally responsible way, the managing director said, "This would not only help the society we live in, but also work towards creating a greener and better world."
"In our country, the future generations must inherit an industrialised Bangladesh, whose ecology is also left intact," he hoped.
"We feel that this is our small contribution to our society to leave the Bangladesh as more an inhabitable country for our children," Mr Uddin added.