Issue 04/2013

… and adherence to specified standards are the alpha and omega of every technological production process. They are made possible only by means of...

The 01.03.2013 was a big day for Haver & Boecker La­tinoamericana. With more than 200 guests from North and South America, Europe and Asia attending,...

Fritsch has introduced a new auto­sampler for its laser particle sizers Ananalysette 22 ­MicroTec plus and NanoTec plus. The device is ideal for...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced a new 200-Watt version of its innovative Thermo Scientific ARL OPTIM’X Wavelength dispersive X-ray...

The Chinese Shanxi Biological Cement Co. Ltd. has ordered five new vertical roller mills from Loesche Mills (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. The order includes two...

The new coating RAS (RAS Robust anti-scratch) from 3M provides a 5 times longer scratch resi­stance than other 3M anti-scratch coatings. Two models of...

The book “Control of Portland Cement Quality” provides a practical approach to the application of statistical methods for quality control in cement...

In Tanzania, HeidelbergCement is constructing a new cement mill with an annual capacity of 700 000 tonnes at its Wazo Hill plant, some 25 km...

When using conventional elemental analyzers for carbon and sulfur determination in solids, the user has to decide whether to use a resistance furnace...

After last year’s large 125-year jubilee, Haver & Boecker recently had another occasion to celebrate. With the sale of the 30 000th electronic weigher, the company based in Oelde/Germany reached another remarkable milestone....

Hot gas generators are usually in use when drying raw materials such as ore, limestone, phosphates, gypsum or coal, in order to reduce the moisture...

The National Cement Co. (NCC) was established in 1978 u­nder the guidance of the late ruler of Dubai H. H. Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed al Maktoum. It was...

The Union Cement Company (UCC) was one of the first cement producers to be established in the United Arab Emirates (Fig. 1). It was set up in 1972 in...

Indonesia is experiencing not only a boom in cement consumption but can also expect a rapid expansion of production capacities, particularly in the...

Modern analytical methods are meanwhile standard in the cement industry for use in quality and production

The results presented in this paper are a fundamental part of the research work which has allowed Buzzi Unicem to achieve the product...

Solid-state NMR spectroscopy is a valuable tool for detection and structural characterization of minor elements incorporated in the principal phases...