Cristal’s clean air technologies to be unveiled at Yanbu conference

Cristal, described as the world’s second largest manufacturer of titanium dioxide, will unveil the company’s leading edge titanium dioxide technologies for the first time in Saudi Arabia during Yanbu’s first environment conference. These technologies help address the most fundamental needs of populations worldwide — waste management and depollution.
The two-day conference on Best Environmental Techniques for Industrial Waste Management and technical exhibition will be inaugurated today by Prince Abdulaziz bin Majed, governor of Madinah, alongside Prince Turki bin Nasser bin Abdul Aziz, president of the Presidency of Meteorology and Environment, and Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin Thunayyan Al-Saud, chairman of the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu.
The event will bring together government, energy providers, EPC contractors and waste management suppliers to examine issues of how to safely and sustainably deal with waste, and discuss policies, legislation, monitoring and control of waste management across all industries in the Kingdom.
As a principal sponsor of the conference, Cristal will present in particular how its research collaboration on waste management with King Saud University (KSU) in Riyadh has led to an environmentally friendly innovation that has already found commercial application in the Saudi construction sector and opened up new business opportunities for nationals.
CristalACTiV, the patented and award-winning invention, which won a gold medal at the 39th International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva and an award at the Malaysia Technology Expo in 2011, uses solid byproduct from titanium dioxide manufacturing as partial replacement for cement and cement-based products. Cement manufacturing releases huge volumes of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, into the atmosphere.
Cristal was also able to invent a process that reuses the silica sand waste from its facility in Yanbu with a rate of 60 tons per day and divert this material from the landfill.