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The strong upswing of the overall economic trend has also had a positive effect on the German cement industry. With the recovery of the overall economy, developments in the building markets are slowly...

ABB and Holcim Switzerland have agreed to install ABB’s newly developed heat recovery and electrical power production system at their cement plant in Untervaz/Switzerland (Fig. 1). ABB’s...

Extracting limestone and processing quicklime products for various sectors of industry form the portfolio of the Wuppertal-based company Oetelshofen Kalk. 75% of its products are supplied by road or...

KHD Humboldt Wedag can trace its origins back to 1856. One of the leading global cement plant and equipment suppliers, KHD provides services such as design and engineering, project management and...

1 Sustainable operation of plants The European cement and primary industry has to cope with increasingly limited financial and personnel resources. ­Owing to the global financial crisis, it is at...

1 Building materials in the course of time Minerally bound mortars have been in use for over 2500 years. A milestone for modern mortars was the availability of dry performance binders since the early...

With more than 700 registered participants, the 16th Arab-­International Cement Conference and Exhibition, which this time took place in the Ras Al Khaimah Exhibition Center (Figs. 1 and 2), was also...

“Crisis and speculation – they are original components of the global economic system and are not only a threat to it.” This thesis was proposed by Prof. Dr. Michael Hüther (Fig. 1), honorary...

Electrostatic precipitators operating according to the two-stage Penney principle are distinguished by high precipitation efficiency, even in the range of very fine dusts and aerosols, and an...

1 Introduction Western Europe is a world leader in the utilization of alternative fuels in the cement industry. The concept of “Co-Processing” was propagated as long ago as the beginning of the...