Issue 7/8/2011

From 13th to 14th April 2011, ZKG INTERNATIONAL together with Holcim’s Höver cement works (Fig. 1) invited 50 students from Hamburg University to introduce interesting fields of activity to students...

The cement manufacturing industry has changed rapidly during the past decade, and the new edition of Innovations in Portland Cement Manufacturing (...

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...

BEUMER, one of the world’s largest logistics providers, is now setting up an office in Aarhus/Denmark ( Fig. ) for the business sections conveying,...

VIBROTIP is a rugged and handy data collector for machine vibration, rolling element bearing condition and pump cavitation that has been successful...

In China the TOP 10 cement producers comprise 817.4 Mta (34 %) of a cement capacity of 2405 million tons per annum (Mta). Market leader with a...

On 09.02.2011, Askale Cimento Sanayii T.A.S. negotiated with Loesche regarding a CRM and a coal mill for a new brown field 3500 tpd clinker...

Spasskzement has placed another order with ­Polysius, this time for a POLAB laboratory automation system. In future, sampling, analysis and control...

Fujairah Cement Industries (FCI) has for the last thirty years been one of the leading cement companies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A new line...

The 2011 ZKG technical student excursion took the ZKG INTERNATIONAL team, with interested students, on a visit to the Höver cement plant ( Fig. 1 )....

www.zkg.de/special The “Warta” cement works (Fig. 1) with an annual production of 1.6 million tons of clinker is one of the biggest plants in Poland (Infobox 1). It is located in the small town of Tre˛...

“The dynamics of the economic growth in our important markets will be accelerated in 2011 and will also increasingly cover the building trade. This...

Since the market introduction of the HAVER ROTO­CLASSIC ^® cement packing machine two years ago, more than 100 units have been sold worldwide so far....

Summary: The cement industry in North Africa is being considerably affected by the current political upheavals in the region. However, in Tunisia at...

Summary: In Western Europe, dry premix mortar plants operating on an industrial scale are now practically entirely automated in terms of the major...

Summary: Energy efficiency is becoming the crucial issue for industry. Rising energy costs, increasing pressure to produce returns, and the awareness...

Summary: Geopolymers are a technologically interesting group of materials that are already being used in various niche applications. The test results...