Issue 05/2012

Every month, ZKG INTERNATIONAL keeps its readers around the globe informed on current trends, technological innovations - including new binders and...

In December 2011 the Austrian Starlinger & Co. GmbH (­Vienna) has delivered the 100th line for the production of block bottom valve bags made of woven polypropylene. Designed for the production of the worldwide patented AD*STAR block bottom valve sacks, the Starlinger ad*starKON 60-conversion line combines state-of-the-art technology with outstanding flexibility and high reliability. With a production capacity of up to 60 sacks per minute and an efficiency of more than 85 % it achieves an output of 22 million sacks per year. Machine-oriented operation with touch screen, an...

Following the successful start­up in their cement plants Esch/Luxembourg (Fig.) and Göllheim/Germany, the ­Dyckerhoff AG has now commenced with the...

Retsch offer a comprehensive range of sieve shakers world-wide, providing the ideal instrument for any type of material, from agglomerating powders to...

The Beumer Group from Beckum is the recipient of this year’s Axia award. In Duesseldorf on February 6, 2012, the auditing firm Deloitte commended the...

HeidelbergCement completed the capacity expansion project at its cement plant in Górazdze/Poland (Fig.), with the commissioning of a new cement mill....

A new EMC baghouse (EMC – Energy Minimizing Concept) was installed in the Leube cement factory for about 5 million € to dedust the kiln exit gases....

At the ACHEMA 2012 in Frankfurt, the software specialist Aucotec for the first time presents a solution that permits to consistently map the as-built...

On March 15th, 2012 IBAU ­HAMBURG has officially handed over during an inauguration ceremony the new ­Cement Import Terminal in the Malmö...

To produce cement for various applications in a more economic way, Lafarge modernised the production facilities at its plant in the town of...

With the company’s own quarry and a private harbour, Nuh Cimento Sanayi (Fig. 1), a Turkish cement company, has two outstanding location factors for...

The process industry is a broad field, ranging from chemicals, petrochemicals and gas processing through pharmaceuticals, the food and sugar industry...

The conveyor system for transporting cement clinker at the Lägerdorf production plant of Holcim (Deutschland) AG uses SmartWire-DT, Eaton’s innovative...

Early in 2012 the Secil plants Outao and C.M.P. Maceira will take delivery of two SAMSON® feeders (Fig.) for the handling of alternative fuels. At the...

For more than ten years now, Holcim Ltd. has been operating six concrete factories, a ­cement plant and three quarries in Croatia. Right from the...

In India, in the last few years, the demand for new construction materials has been increasing mainly because of the shortage of skilled labour, the...

This year‘s Cement Process Engineering Technical Conference (Fig. 1) featured an interesting spectrum of topics for the 230 participants, including...

Currently everyone is talking about the processes of avoidance and conversion of CO2. For this purpose the CO2 has to be separated from the process...

Siemens MultipleDrive is an innovative drive system for vertical roller mills focusing on availability.

With the right maintenance gear units will run reliably for several decades. The oldest one in service is a parallel shaft gearbox which has been in...

Calculations using the finite element method (FEM) provided a significant optimization to the basement of cement mills. Operation-related vibrations...

By means of MI-CFD modeling, improvements to AFR thermal substitution rates (TSR) can be easily validated. Two case studies are presented where coal...