Issue 10/2009

Not only has the biggest democracy in the world proved itself to be stable during the last Parliamentary elections, this emerging market has faced the...

In honour of his outstanding contributions to cement science and other relevant research areas and to celebrate Professor Glassers 80^th birthday the...

“Even if various companies offer  identical products, each company is unique. It offers something to its customers and employees, which they will not...

HAVER & BOECKER, wire-weavers and mechanical engineers, of Oelde, Germany, can look back on a corporate history of no less than one hundred and...

In Antwerp/Belgium, Sika has brought a new plant on line for production of the ­superplasticizers Sika^®"> ">ViscoCrete^® and ­SikaPlast^®. Construction...

Recently HAVER ENGINEERING GmbH, Meissen, was officially recognized as an associated institute of the Freiberg Mining Academy Technical University. A...

Petra Wolf (Fig.) takes over as Director of International Operations at the NürnbergMesse Group with effect from 01.10. 2009. She succeeds Herta...

The CTP team (Bedeschi Group) has recently secured an order for the Halyps cement plant which is part of the Italcementi Group in Greece. The scope of...

One of the UK based B&W Mechanical Handling Limited’s latest orders is to supply a SUR rail-car unloading installation (Fig.) to the Russian cement...

At Knauf Drywall, Immingham/Großbrittanien (Fig.), problems of material hang up in silos and hoppers occurred within the plant. One such trouble spot...

With the analytical sieve shaker AS 450 control (Fig. 1) RETSCH have designed their first siever for 400 mm and 450 mm sieves which operates with a...

The international engineering and project management company, AMEC has chosen to increase its use of Maptek^TM"> ">Vulcan software for mine planning...

Conveying wear-intensive bulk solids is an issue in many industry sectors. Particles are conveyed much faster in dilute phase conveying. Here lower...

The Weimar-based IBU-tec advanced materials AG wants to reduce the CO₂ emissions generated during the cement making process. “The carbon dioxide...

Unlike almost any other region in Germany the Warendorf region is characterized by a large number of cement companies that in some cases have very...

1 Introduction In times when high productivity and fast handling of goods is required in order to minimise costs, the loading and unloading of ships...

The Thermo Scientific Blast-Hole Xpert (BHX), an innovative new system from ­Thermo Fisher Scientific (Fig. 1), increases efficiency at the quarry by...

The SCK is the new kiln gas exit sampling system (Fig. 1) from ABB. It is the proven solution for the rough environmental ­conditions at the rotary...

Summary: India has been largely spared by the global economic crisis. Although the country’s economic growth decreased to 6.7  % in 2008 after 9  %...

Summary: In many industries the wear caused by handling bulk materials is a factor that limits the availability of plants and thus considerably...

">Summary:">"> The terms “stiffening” and “setting” mentioned in the gypsum and cement standards are elaborated and combined into “course of setting”....