Adriano Greco has joined the FCT team as global sales director, based in the United States. He is well known in the industry through his previous activities as managing director of Greco and as sales...
In order to ensure more cost-effective production, at the Mokpo cement plant of Sun Cement Co. Ltd. in Korea plans have been made to replace the current outdated ball mill with a new grinding...
HeidelbergCement released its 6th sustainability report so far at the end of July. The Sustainability Report 2013/2014 highlights topics and challenges for HeidelbergCement in its drive for...
PowerCore® technology developed by Donaldson provides optimum preconditions for highly efficient dust filtration in, for example, the cement and building materials industries. This new technology succeeds in cutting emissions of fine particulates (“dust”) and reducing the gas volume of the dust collectors critical for explosion safety simultaneously. Donaldson installations featuring PowerCore® technology are up to 70 % smaller...
Operators of industrial equipment like cement plants often need to make decisions that relate to the future. They usually plan their maintenance schedules in regular intervals, based on...
The microstructure of fresh cement paste (FCP) in the presence of superplasticizer was investigated in this study. A Morphologi G3 microscope was applied to directly observe the microstructure of the FCP with the emphasis of the real organization...
Co-processing of waste materials for the purpose of energy or resource recovery has been an important topic in the cement industry for a long time. Publications and articles have been published to explain the rationale for co-processing. ...
The Internet of Things – which is an essential part of the German initiative Industrie 4.0 – is synonymous with the digitalization of industrial processes. A core element is that process industries become more intelligent. Cement companies, too, can profit from technologies that increase digitalization and at the same time tackle the challenges facing the industry. ...
Manikgarh Cement Limited, owned by India’s BK Birla Group of Companies, has successfully commissioned a three million t/a cement plant. The cement producer first announced its plans to build a brownfield integrated cement plant in 2010. Located in Gadchandur, a town in the Chandrapur District in the State of Maharashtra, Manikgarh Cement is a division of...
In recent years India’s cement demand has been much weaker than expected. However the signs are now indicating a recovery with a higher demand, higher production and higher utilization rates of the installed capacity. In this market review...
