In March 2011, the Chengdu Design & Research Institute of Building Materials Industry Co. Ltd., belonging to the Chinese Sinoma group and acting as General Contractor for a new cement production line,...
Stefan Wolfensberger, Corporate Functional Manager Holcim Ltd and Head Commercial Services Holcim Group Support Ltd, left the Group on 30.06.2011. He has long expressed the desire to take the next...
ABB signed a contract with Votorantim Cimentos to provide its cpmPlus Expert Optimizer process optimization system, for eleven new cement plants being built in Brazil and other Latin American...
The Cong Thanh Cement Plant Stock Joint Company has ordered bucket elevators from AUMUND Fördertechnik for the possible record-breaking height of 150 m. They form part of the mega cement plant’s...
BEUMER, one of the world’s largest logistics providers, is now setting up an office in Aarhus/Denmark (Fig.) for the business sections conveying, palletisation, packaging and distribution in...
Martin Engineering, a global supplier of systems and services to improve the handling of bulk materials, has taken another step in its expansion into India with the acquisition of an Indian...
In 2008, the Moroccan company Ciments de l’Atlas S.A. and Polysius signed contracts for the construction of two completely identical 3600 t/d cement plants involving all equipment from the limestone...
The cement manufacturing industry has changed rapidly during the past decade, and the new edition of Innovations in Portland Cement Manufacturing (Fig.) addresses this new atmosphere. The fully...
1 Introduction
The binding agent calcium sulfate, consisting of the phases hemihydrate = CaSO4 · ½ H2O, anhydrite III and II = CaSO4, pure or in various mixtures, is produced by thermal...
