Cementing Vallejo’s Green Economy
Manufacturing Matters The Vallejo Chamber of Commerce and Solano Economic Development Corporation Breakfast 12 June 2014
About the Product… NASA Ames Sustainability Base
49ers Stadium
Cathedral of Christ the Light Church
SF Public Utilities Commission
Eastern Span of SF Bay Bridge Apple Headquarters
…a sustainable cement
About the Company… Irish (Dublin) Plant
Ecocem Materials Ltd
Construction: 2003 Capacity: 350k tpa Markets: Ireland, UK, Sweden
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Established in 2000
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Privately owned, Donal O’Riain
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Minority interests by ArcelorMittal Saint‐Gobain and individuals
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Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland
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Three (3) manufacturing plants • • •
Rotterdam area Dublin Marseilles area
Dutch (Moerdijk) Plant Construction: 2002 Capacity: 350k tpa Markets: Netherlands & Belgium
French (Fos sur Mer) Plant Construction: 2009 Capacity: 700k tpa Markets: Southern France
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Sales in six (6) countries
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Annual sales of > 1 million tons
• Growing rapidly in spite of worst recession in construction in 80 years
… Ecocem Materials Ltd
About the Product… Primary (97%) raw material … •
beneficiated byproduct from of turning iron ore to metallic iron
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extremely high quality control
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recycled material: zero CO2 footprint
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appears, handles as damp beach sand
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Orcem’s green cement … •
improves durability, increases infrastructure lifespan, saves tax dollars and road repairs delays
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replaces up to 80% of ordinary portland cement, one the world’s most CO2 intensive products
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saves 0.8 tons of CO2 per ton utilized
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reduces urban heat island effect
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conserves natural resources like limestone and fossil fuels
available globally in limited quantities most feasible source is Japan, via large backhaul shipments
…a sustainable building material
Solano County’s history… 1860 ‐ Benicia. 1st cement plant in California. On the waterfront between West 8th and 9th Streets. Owner James Clyne. Closed in 1890
1868 ‐ Benicia Plant
2016 ‐ Vallejo Plant
• 26 tons per day
• 2,200 tons per day
1902 ‐ Pacific Cement Co. in Cement, Solano County, near Fairfield, 2nd portland cement plant in California
• 50 employees for manufacturing and stevedoring
• 50 employees for manufacturing and stevedoring
1903 ‐ Standard Portland Cement Co. in Napa Junction, 3rd portland cement plant in California
• 2 tons CO2 per ton of cement(1)
• 0.02 tons CO2 per ton of cement(2)
Orcem to be 4 miles from old Benicia site
1906 ‐ Santa Cruz Portland Cement Co.
100 times the production
1909 ‐ Cowell Lime and Cement Co., SE of Concord 1918 ‐ Old Mission Portland Cement Co. in San Juan, San Benito County
1% of the CO2 per ton Operating plant today Closed plant (1) Derivation from data in “History of Solano County, 1879, Munroe (2) Average in California 2009, ~ 0.83 tons CO2 per ton of cement
…as pioneer in cement production
About the Vallejo Project… Orcem California’s Vallejo project consists of: • 65 year lease of 4.8 acres from Vallejo Marine Terminal, VMT • Location optimizes sea‐land logistics, minimizing GHG emissions • Investment budget of $50 million in Vallejo at full build out • State of the art process and emission control technology • Primary product: ground granulated blast furnace slag, “GGBFS”, ASTM C‐989
…to manufacture green cement
Re‐purposes old flour mill site…
Total: 34.3 acres
4.8 acres
9.7 acres
…as modern mill and logistics hub
VMT’s deep water port for … Driving distances
60 miles
30 miles
70 miles
…import of essential raw material
Granulate raw material…
…looks and handles like beach sand
State of the art technology… Cut away view of mill
View of mill inside mill building
…clean and energy efficient
Traditional cement manufacturing… Capacity: 775,000 tons per year Quarries
Area = 4.83 acres, Orcem site
…near Santa Cruz, closed in 2009
Sustainable cement production… CEQA Process w/Environmental Impact Report to be certified by December 2014 Demolition and erection of 18 months: Commissioning 2nd quarter 2016
…with same capacity, in 2016
Orcem Project Benefits… Investment
$50 million private investment in Vallejo
Construction Jobs
140,000 hours of union work
Jobs
fulltime: 30 direct; 30 indirect, induced
Direct Tax Revenue (1)
$360k/yr Vallejo, $410k/yr Solano Co.
GDP Impact (1)
$13 million annually added to the area
Reduction in GHG
equivalent to every Vallejo auto off the road
Business Nucleus
deep water port, railroad, primary mfg
(1) Orcem only. Calculated for full production in 2020 and each subsequent year. w/VMT $1m in tax, >$20m GDP
…upgrading California infrastructure
Thank you…
Steve Bryan, President
[email protected] www.orcem.com
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