Issue 5/2014

One of the most frequently asked questions is what is the result of the jumbo merger of Lafarge and Holcim? There are overlaps on a number of markets,...

In the first quarter of 2013, A TEC was awarded the contract to implement an alternative fuel system, which can handle sesame straw/stalk, with...

Within the scope of its expansion projects, PT Semen Indonesia, the country´s largest cement producer is building two new production lines at its...

It appears that an era is coming to an end at the Istein lime plant, which has been owned by HeidelbergCement (HC) since 1983. Clearly, the HC Group...

As cement producers have different requirements for drives in vertical roller mills, the latest developments in the area of drive train technology...

Siemens is expanding the applications of wireless data transmission in cabinets and in equipment at the field level with two new product lines for...

Thorwesten Vent, active in the field of constructional explosion protection, has received a contract for the design and assembly of a large capacity...

Today’s heavy haulage challenges call for top quality products. That is why specialists for heavy haulage and oversized cargo transportation such as...

SMC Pneumatik in Egelsbach, near Frankfurt/Germany, has optimized its series VXF dust filter valves designed as 2/2-way solenoid valves and as...

Siemens has launched a new flanged, encapsulated antenna with a measuring range of up to 20 meters for the Sitrans LR250 radar level transmitter....

Münstermann from Telgte/Germany has designed, developed and marketed several de-dusting plants since its takeover of the company Lüscher Filterbau in...

Gebr. Pfeiffer was founded in 1864 as a small machine factory in Kaiserslautern/Germany. Today, it is a globally active company with subsidiaries in India, in the United States and China and about 500 employees worldwide. In the founding years steam engines, mills for food production and malting equipment were the main products of the company, but the focus very soon turned to machines and plants for the basic materials industry...

The production of oil-free compressed air with a maximum pressure of between 1.0 and 1.5 bar was previously a tricky subject because it was not...

The British waste management company Premier Waste UK PLC has always been among the industry’s pioneers. It produces high-quality alternative fuels...

In 1995, the equipment supplier Tews based in Büren/Germany tested its first system for the use of solid alternative fuels at the Kollenbach cement...

A reliable, trouble-free and highly precise dosing of bulk materials is a key factor in complex processes, such as cement production, in order to...

Today’s burner suppliers are offering different technologies for their main burner to produce the final clinker quality in the kiln. Recently some of...

In times of increasing energy costs, it is of vital interest for any company to save energy. To cut the energy costs for clinker production, the German cement industry started substitution of primary fuels with Alternative Fuels (AF) such as used oil or tyres after the first oil crisis of 1973. Today, alternative fuels and raw materials (AFR) include a wide range of types of hazardous and non-hazardous waste...

This case study presents a typical system for material handling installed at a cement plant in the northern part of Turkey. Customized Refuse Derived...

In China, the national cement output grew at 9 %, reaching more than 2.4 billion tons in 2013. However, the growth rate of cement capacity began to...

The Holcim and Lafarge top managements intend in future to serve the largest possible regions of the world together. Overlaps are assessed as...

Benchmarking the performance of cement plants is the trend in the global cement industry and is now widely used. The following article outlines the...

The control and instrumentation (C&I) systems of processing plants generate an almost overwhelming torrent of data, and paper-based documentation no...