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ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP



        Our Magnesia Specialties Business

        After our cement business, our magnesia specialties   We also manufacture magnesia-based products at our
        business, which has two plants — one in Ohio and one  Manistee, Michigan, facility, which are a relatively
        in Michigan — is the second largest contributor to our  insignificant source of direct GHG emissions. Notably, our
        Scope 1 GHG footprint. This is due almost entirely to
                                                              products manufactured at this plant help control emissions
        the operation of our Woodville, Ohio, plant where we
                                                              and result in other environmental benefits.
        operate six lime kilns. The calcination process at Woodville
        is very similar to our cement
                                                              Some of those applications for our products include:
        business, except that Woodville processes dolomitic
        limestone, which contains a higher CO component than
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        the high calcium limestone used in our cement plants.
        In contrast to cement, our Magnesia Specialties business         Purification of drinking water as well as
        cannot achieve GHG reductions through substitution for           industrial and municipal wastewater
        our calcined lime product since both internal and external
        customers require that we maintain extremely high purity
        to allow further processing.
                                                                         Optimization of transformer electricity
                                                                         transmission
        “Notably, our products

        manufactured at this plant help
                                                                         Replacement of hazardous chemicals with
        control emissions and result in                                  our non-hazardous magnesium oxide and

        other environmental benefits.”                                   hydroxide products




        Nevertheless, we have seen a considerable reduction              Sulfur oxide pollution reduction
        in GHG emissions intensity in our Magnesia Specialties
        business in recent years. This is primarily driven through
        our investments in modernizing the Woodville plant,
        most notably construction of a new, more efficient kiln          Nuclear waste neutralization
        that was completed in 2012. In 2018, under a consent
        decree negotiated with USEPA, the Company committed
        to spend an additional +/- $30 million at this site to add
        preheaters and other state-of-the-art control technology         Improvements in gas turbine electric
        to two other large kilns. While primarily designed to            generation efficiency
        control NOx and SO emissions, based on our initial
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        experience with the first preheater in 2021, we believe we
        will see GHG emission reductions although it is too early to
                                                                         Reduction of chemical usage in pulp
        quantify them. This project is in its second phase with an
        additional preheater and additional bag house installations      bleaching and improvements in paper
                                                                         grade pulp yield, reducing wood demand,
        underway.
                                                                         and fertilizers to maximize crop yield and
        We are currently evaluating systems to achieve additional        to replenish soil nutrients
        reductions through implementation of heat recovery
        systems, improvements in combustion efficiency through
        new product mixes, process changes and upgraded                  Reduction of sewer system pollution,
        equipment, and minimizing the generation of fines and            such as hydrogen sulfide gas
        other byproducts.




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