RELIANCE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING AND REHABILITATION THE IRAQI CEMENT FACTORIES (IRAQI CEMENT STATE CO. - CASE STUDY)

Abstract

Iraq is one of the cement manufacturer countries, due to the abundant of raw materials in addition to technical and practical knowledge. There are cement plants in several governorates of Iraq. Iraq was one of the exported countries for this material, now Iraq is importing country to this material due to the lack of production for the domestic market. The cement industry is one of the strategic industries related construction project. In the same time it is classified by the organizations of environment protection as dirty industry. The impact of the economical blockade in the last century in addition to low power supply and obsolescence in the production units, on the production efficiency of cement factories in Iraq. The present researches describes the essential requirements for the Environmental Management system, and recommend to follow it in its application requirements, as being that in many developed countries, regarding to the benefits coming from this system on the environmental economical aspects. Therefore the need arises to take into account the adoption of the requirements of this system in compliance with the existing cement factories intended to be rehabitated and that will be constructed in the future so as to create a safe environment for the workers in the factory or in the neighboring residential area.