Titan America’s commitment to a clean and healthy environment is a corporate priority. Realizing the potential hazards created by the manufacturing of building materials, we take wide precautions to protect employees and the general public.

Customers count on Titan America businesses to recycle their waste concrete, block and other concrete products. This process eliminates the need for unsightly dumps and extends the life of community landfills. At our ready-mix plants, unused batched material is returned, and the water and aggregates are mechanically separated. The water is reused to wash ready-mix trucks or mixed with recycled and virgin raw materials to make new concrete.

Employee training is a consistent part of our environmental protection strategy, and so, too, is caring. From the boardroom to the processing plant, Titan America personnel pursue a common objective - a clean world in which to live and work.

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The Pennsuco Plant has been designed to recover and use the heat from the kiln and from the cooling clinker. Raw materials are preheated by exiting kiln gases as they fall through five cyclones in the preheater tower. The result is reduced energy requirements and a more consistent product. Innovative processes have reduced NOx and other emissions per ton of clinker to the lowest in Florida.

Remote sensors at key locations throughout the complex measure everything from machine revolutions, to vibration and heat, to the make up of the materials entering the plant. They connect to computerized maintenance and management systems in the control center. Strategically placed video cameras allow control operators to see inside the plant components – even inside the kiln. Maintenance is prescheduled, plant uptime is significantly increased, emissions are continually controlled, and output quality is very predictable.

The comprehensive lab continually tests raw materials and finished cement using automated samplers and pneumatic transport systems. Clinker samples are manually transported to the lab and all are delivered to a preprogrammed robot which routes them to various test equipment for immediate analysis. Computer readouts from the testing enables plant operators in the control room to make continuous adjustments to raw materials blends, kiln conditions, and other factors to ensure optimum operation and output.

The segmented bag house design allows maintenance on one segment while others continue to function for uninterrupted plant operation. Screw conveyors continually feed kiln dust bin material back into the production stream.

Pulverized preheater and kiln fuel coal is fully consumed in the manufacturing process. Producing intense heat – up to 3,400° F at the kiln flame – the coal adds essential mineral components to the clinker.

The Pennsuco kiln is designed to burn both pulverized coal fuel as well as a mixture of coal plus carbon rich material separated from power plant fly ash. Separation Technologies, a Titan America business, is a world leader in electrostatic separation of fly ash from coal-fired power plants. Carbon rich material from the Separation Technologies plant at the JEA power plant in Jacksonville, Florida is currently being tested at the Pennsuco plant as a possible supplemental fuel source.

Another innovative recycling initiative being studied is to introduce quantities of kiln dust from previous Pennsuco cement plants, currently in managed storage areas, as a production feed stock. Estimates are that new Pennsuco Cement Plant could consume upwards of 300,000 tons of this material over a five-year period. Recycling the existing stored kiln dust would eliminate the need for an equivalent amount of new material.

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Titan America along with other members of the Portland Cement Association is actively engaged and committed to sustainable development—a philosophy that focuses on meeting our construction needs today without depleting future resources. We are participating in Concrete Thinking an industry-wide program designed to educate our customers, suppliers, friends and family about the benefits of concrete for sustainable development.

Sustainability Fact Sheet
Includes information on concrete and cement as sustainable building materials.
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Manufacturing Fact Sheet
Includes basic information on how cement is made and the difference between concrete and cement.
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Responsibility Fact Sheet
Includes information about the industry’s leadership role in reducing emissions and more.
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