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How much wood?
Jonathan Rowland, Editor of World Cement,
examines a recent
project in Ontario, Canada, that is supplying a cement plant with
wood‑based alternative fuel.
T
ORRX Kinetic Pulverizer Ltd has recently
installed its TORXX Kinetic Pulverizer
®
at U-Pak’s
McPherson transfer station in Pickering, Ontario,
Canada, to process wood-based construction
and demolition waste into an alternative, low-carbon
fuel for a nearby St Marys Cement plant. Operational
since Fall 2018, the project’s development goes
back to 2015 and a meeting between TORXX and
St Marys Cement at Waste Expo Canada, a trade
show in Montreal.
“We had a display booth showing our system
and capabilities of material reduction of waste
products to very fine particle sizes,” Jeff Bowers,
Senior Account Executive at TORXX, told
World Cement. “Our expertise is taking large mass
waste products in one pass down to a finer particle
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