Issue 08/2025

Following our Green Challenge issue, issue 8/2025 is another issue of special significance to us: this will be the last time that ZKG is published by Bauverlag and with us as your editorial team. We would therefore like to take this opportunity to express our sincere thank.

The whole world is talking about artificial intelligence and that it is the quantum leap for all industries. Also for the cement industry?

Etex and Heidelberg Materials participate in the joint project CEMLOOP XL – an industrial-scale innovative initiative co-funded by the European Union LIFE Programme.

In response to an open letter from an ETS alliance of almost 80 companies to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Philip Nuyken, Managing Director of Policy at the German Lime Association (BVK), is calling for more realpolitik.

TITAN Group and thyssenkrupp Polysius are taking another significant step toward low-carbon cement production by announcing a strategic partnership to advance Polysius’ meca® clay—a breakthrough...

Gebr. Pfeiffer has received an order to supply an MVR 3070 R-2 vertical roller mill for clay grinding. The mill will be installed at the cement plant of Ciments de Côte d‘Ivoire (CIMCI) in Ivory Coast, where it will grind clay for the production of cements with calcined clay.

(22) 16.05.2025(43) 04.09.2025(57) Numerous examples of a vertical kiln for manufacturing cement are disclosed. In one example, a vertical kiln comprises a housing comprising a top opening to receive...

Heidelberg Materials has started delivering evoZero, the world’s first near-zero carbon captured cement, to customers across Europe. Based on carbon capture and storage (CCS) at Heidelberg Materi als. Furthermore, evoZero supports the construction of the new Skøyen Station in Oslo/Norway and the German 3D-printing project DREIHAUS.

Rotary kilns are essential for cement production – as is the case at the Duna-Dráva Cement plant in Vác, northern Hungary, which belongs to the Heidelberg Materials Group. After a roller bearing on the kiln failed, the existing gear ring was severely damaged and had to be replaced.

HAVER & BOECKER OHG‘s machine manufacturing division is celebrating its 100th anniversary – a milestone in an industry that is not often in the media spotlight, but is indispensable for the global supply of building materials.

Pakistan’s cement industry recovered in FY 2025 from the downturn in the last three years. However, the industry is fragmented and divided into North and South. This market review will provide the latest production data, the main players in the market and their production shares.

With the foreseeable end of coal-fired power generation, a key raw material for calcium sulfate binders, flue gas desulfurization gypsum (FGD gypsum), will no longer be available. In order to avoid having to fill the resulting gap exclusively with natural gypsum, gypsum recycling will play a significantly greater role in the future.

Based on the analysis of classic ball mills of various designs, a grinding concept was developed and, on this basis, a highly efficient new-generation unit was created – the tubular-conical mill (TCM). One of the advantages of TCM is the possibility of combining the simplest closed circuit of cement grinding with minimal capital and operating costs.

The ongoing battle against dust in bulk material handling is a continuous challenge. The location and number of belt cleaners required, based on production volume and application on a conveyor system, are closely tied to safety, emissions, and operating costs. A common design challenge is positioning belt cleaners in the optimal locations.

(22) 27.02.2024(43) 23.07.2025(57) The present disclosure relates to the field of fluidized-bed furnace technology and discloses a control method for an energy-saving ultra-low pressure steam calcined...

(22) 01.07.2022(43) 21.08.2025(57) Proposed is a system for capturing and recycling carbon dioxide and producing hydrogen for a cement manufacturing facility. The system includes a preheater provided...

As the world’s third largest source of industrial carbon emission, the cement industry faces an arduous task of carbon emission reduction. This paper systematically reviews the cutting-edge progress of decarbonization technologies in China’s cement industry.

(22) 25.10.2024(43) 14.08.2025(57) The invention relates to a method for measuring reactivity of pozzolanic materials and correlating their reactivity to strength development in composite cement, said...

(22) 19.04.2023(43) 21.08.2025(57) A method of processing exhaust gas from a cement plant, the cement plant including one or several raw meal mills for milling a cement raw meal, one or several...