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...
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 his vision to create new avenues for industry...
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 the Khor Kwair Industrial Area and production...
1 Introduction
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) techniques have been increasingly employed in studies of cementitious materials over the last three decades [1-3]. The main advantages of the basic...
The awareness of the social relevance of the protection of the environment has promoted increased attention in the investigation of innovative and more sustainable construction materials. The research...
1 Introduction
With its estimated 241 million inhabitants, Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world. A master plan for accelerating the country’s economic growth recently adopted by...
Assurance of quality and performance
Quality assurance and production monitoring in the cement industry has a long tradition, reaching back to the era of product standardisation in 1877/78. Then, as...
The 7th International VDZ Congress in September 2013 will cover the following themes: Future-oriented projects, cement and concrete, burning technology, sustainability (use of energy and resources),...
For the new cement grinding terminal Douala in Cameroon, Sinoma International Engineering Co. Ltd (NCDRI) has decided in favour of a new VRM from Loesche for this project. A Loesche mill of the type...
The use of bonding substances and rendering in building construction is rooted deep in the past: the Assyrians and Babylonians used clay, the Egyptians used lime and gypsum cement, and the Greeks and...
