Issue 3/2018

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The Board of Directors of Lafarge-Holcim has decided to establish a more market-focused and agile management organization. The profit and loss responsibility of the countries will be strengthened with...

Samson Materials Handling has appointed Dale Lockley as the new sole Managing Director. Samson Materials Handling is part of the internationally renowned Aumund Group of Companies which specialises in...

The cement industry has initiated a demonstration project to test a new breakthrough technology for the future of carbon capture. Based on extensive research undertaken by the European Cement Research ...

Loesche has the patented concept which enables the production of cement with higher Blaine values and effective grinding of blast furnace slag. One example of such a mill, ensuring a higher feed rate ...

Gear specialist Brauer repairs, optimizes and maintains planetary gears and sundry types of industrial gearing.Any damage to a planetary gear can usually be expected to result in time-consuming ...

LafargeHolcim is investing around € 100 million in the modernisation of the Martres-Tolosane cement plant in the South West of France. Aumund Fördertechnik GmbH and Aumund France S.A.R.L. will be...

Aerzen large blowers are positive displacement blowers which can be applied virtually anywhere, convincing users worldwide by their quality, reliability and performance. These blowers reach volume...

ELE International has launched a new automatic control unit for concrete and cement testing. The ADR Touch Control Pro system brings the latest technology into the materials testing laboratory, whilst...

Smaller in size but just as capable and accurate as its big brothers is the latest rotor weighfeeder model that German FLSmidth Pfister, specialist for weighing and dosing technology in cement,...

The new Elementrac CS-i was developed for accurate and reliable analysis of carbon and sulfur in inorganic materials like cement.It uses an induction furnace for sample combustion as well as highly...

When a conveyor belt is stopped for maintenance, its own weight can create problems by distributing the tension unevenly. To ensure that a belt can be safely cut and securely spliced by service...

Across the cement industry, significantly less money is being invested in ventilation systems nowadays. Instead, existing systems are being kept in service as long as possible. With a view to helping...

Back in 2008, some important decisions were being made at Dyckerhoff headquarters in Amöneburg. One such decision – following the discontinuation of grey clinker production – was to sustainably expand ...

Replacing scrapers on a conveyor belt system is almost always a lengthy process for any company. In the case of the Hohenlimburger Kalkwerke, a lime plant in Germany, the whole process took almost two...

Röfix AG’s portfolio comprises around 200 different building materials, e.g. masonry mortar, renderings, paints, coatings and unbonded screeds. To make sure that the correct quantity of these...

Hot gas generators by Carbotechnik can combust solid (powdered), liquid and gaseous fuels, so the most economical fuel for any given case can be selected at will to minimize costs. The entire system ...

The influence of the material properties on the decomposition of limestone particles under shaft kiln conditions has been investigated. Limestone particles are assumed to be spherical particles and...

The influences of waste water collected from the wet regeneration process of foundry sand on the hydration of α-calcium sulphate hemihydrates (α-HH) was investigated. The characterization of liquid...

The use of statistical factor analysis for evaluating X-ray diffraction data is illustrated using two examples. These show that it is possible to calibrate complete diffractograms instead of...

In cement production, supposedly small problems in the production process can easily lead to high additional costs. A detailed error analysis is often a difficult, costly, and time-consuming ...

(22) 12.02.2016(43) 03.01.2018(57) [Object] Fluidization of a deposit of raw gypsum in a calciner is so improved as to prevent uneven calcination of calcined gypsum from occurring and reduce a fuel...