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...This, they explained, was Le Cementine (named after the cement floor tiles), part of the Padua-based Alajmo group of restaurants, which includes the three-Michelin starred Le Calandre....
...Holcim, the Swiss cement group, is using fly ash recovered from landfill sites, which will help clean up these sites and allow them to be reused....
...As its price has soared in recent months, European chemical and cement companies have sought to protect their margins by passing additional costs on to customers....
...The Pasupatas were wandering Brahmins — or priests — who smeared their bodies with ash from cremation grounds and slept on a bed of ashes....
...She has flowing ash hair....
...To get around this, some producers are increasing the share of clinker substitutes in cement, such as fly ash or blast furnace slag, or even alternative binders altogether....
...The day after our long lunch in Florence, a taxi takes me 30 minutes east of the city centre to Bagno a Ripoli, a verdant suburb filled with olive groves and vineyards....
...In an exposed trench wall was a narrow line of black ash. The Mongols, he said, 1241. We ran our hands over the burnt layer....
...The plant is the company’s only soda ash and bicarbonate production facility in Europe where chemical waste is discharged directly at sea without being treated....
...Authorities faced rare public protests in 2015 against air pollution and ash generated by the Vinh Tan 2 thermal power plant in Binh Thuan Province....
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...Representatives from all 29 Nato countries are due to gather at the Grove Hotel in Watford on Wednesday to celebrate 70 years of the military alliance....
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...Cement production is one of the leading generators of man-made carbon dioxide, and like other eco-friendly concrete manufacturers, Econcrete uses waste products such as fly ash and slag as a substitute for...
...In line with this ethos, the duo plan to introduce as much ash to their clients as possible, so they can plant new trees to help combat the devastating effects of ash dieback disease....
...There was a solar power plant and a composting system using wood waste and ash from the carpentry workshop....
...just stopped his team from laying a cement approach to a new booth....
...The ruling party says the legislation will cement the country’s rule of law. At its core is the expansion of a competitive selection process for judges....
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...At the Tata Chemicals Europe facilities in northern England, which produce salt and soda ash for glass, the company runs a combined heat and power plant that it acquired from the energy utility Eon in 2013...
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