The 57th annual IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference will be held at the beautiful Sheraton Centre Hotel in Toronto, Canada from 26.–30.04.2015. Every major cement manufacturer will...
We are in the midst of the so-called “4th Industrial Revolution”, named Industry 4.0 – after steam engine, mass production and automation, today it is the digitization, which completely changed...
Following a speech of welcome by VDZ president Gerhard Hirth (Fig. 1) to the more than 350 representatives of the German cement industry, science, practice and mechanical and plant engineering, Dr....
Ash Grove Cement is the sixth-largest cement producer overall and the largest American-owned cement manufacturer in the U.S., with nine manufacturing plants, two deep water import terminals and a...
Aucotec AG from Hannover, Germany has developed a new function for its process engineering-oriented software system Engineering Base (EB) instrumentation, which now makes the piping that is defined in...
Cemex Deutschland AG’s first “Safety Day – Logistics” was held in a safety center in Hanover, Germany, on 09.09.2014. Cemex is one of Germany’s largest building materials producers and users of building materials transportation services, employing more than 2500 persons throughout Germany in its cement and concrete production divisions. Partner companies are largely responsible for Cemex’s logistics in the fields of ready-mixed concrete, cement and mineral resources. ...
Kiln performance and reliability is essential to profitable plant operations. A rotary kiln shell has to withstand harsh conditions. The steel and refractory lining structure is heated by a flame at 2000 °C while the outside surface temperature is around 450 °C, using significant temperature gradients. ...
In the business year 2013/2014, German agriculture used considerably more lime fertiliser than in all previous years. Clearly, more and more farmers are becoming aware of the importance of adequate...
I realized how cement making can bring people together. On this excursion companies came for recruiting and presenting themselves and their business unit, and to meet universities and their students...
CEMBUREAU, the European cement association, and ETRMA, the European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers association, are calling upon the EU to review Annex II (Recovery operations) of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) (2008/98/EC) by implementing improvements in scientific and technical progress in this area in order to support waste treatment options which combine both energy recovery and material recycling. ...
