Issue 01/2010

The 6. International VDZ Congress, held in late September 2009, was attended by more than 500 specialist participants ( Fig. 1 ). The proceedings...

The Federal German Association of the Gypsum Industry was founded one hundred and ten years ago. To celebrate this anniversary, the association, in...

Innovative plaster system for mechanically stressed surfaces With the new MP 75 Diamant ( Fig. 1 ) Knauf has developed a machine-applied gypsum...

A major shift in the industry toward the use of more synthetic gypsum has resulted from three factors. Firstly, stricter environmental regulations at...

The new manual issued by the Building Gypsum Industry Group (German abbreviation: IGB) within the Federal ­German Association of the Gypsum Industry...

Gypsum fibre boards according to DIN EN 15283-2 The industrial division “gypsum boards” within the Federal German Association of the Gypsum Industry...

Architects, building planners and craftsmen value gypsum for its versatility as a material, in particular. In addition to its use in filigree stucco...

BetonMarketing Ost and Gütegemeinschaft Bodenverfestigung und Bodenverbesserung GGB (Concrete Marketing East and Quality Association of Soil...

The number of production relocations has dropped by 40 % in the last three years. This is the result of a study by the Fraunhofer Institut für...

Nowadays the cement output of China approaches nearly 50  % of world production and the proportion of Chinese cement equipment in the international...

The latest developments in REMA TIP TOP belt cleaning, the REMACLEAN HM-U7 and HM-U8 ( Fig. ), represent a new generation of patented belt cleaning...

Dust Control Technology has announced the introduction of a 180 ° oscillation option on its two largest designs, effectively quadrupling the coverage...

After several successful business deals in the past few years, Franz-Walter Aumund, chairman of the board of management of the AUMUND Group, now had...

GREASE MAX^® ( Fig. ) is a cost-efficient fully automatic, robust and reliable lubricator suitable for a wide variety of applications. It ensures...

The German cement industry has been more affected by the crisis and the recession than as the branch had expected at the end of last year. This is...

On 22.07.2009 the groundbreaking ceremony for the clinker production upgrade project at the cement factory of Leube GmbH in St. Leonhard/Austria...

Crushers and mills are used to comminute materials like rocks, deposits, and minerals, but also coal, waste or scrap. During comminution they are...

About two years ago, Cemex in the UK presented their plans to erect a new cement grinding works in the Port of Tilbury. The 1.2 million t/a plant is...

Holcim (Deutschland) AG is the largest producer of construction material in northern Germany, producing more than 4 million t annually of binding...

Summary: 22 cement raw mix samples from different parts of the world were analyzed to assess the influence of hard particles such as quartz on the...

Summary: The transition from modernisation of an existing dust removal installation to a new installation is fluent. A modernisation can be so...

Summary:  In this study two types of microscopes, a FEI XL-30 ESEM-FEG and a FEI Nova NanoSEM 230, were used which are capable of different...