Issue 03/2012

All companies active in the building materials production and plant construction address this question. The economic potential has to be determined...

In May 2012, the IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference will be held in San Antonio/USA. The hot topics this year continue to center around...

From 05.-08.06.2012, the cement world will gather, under the motto “The cement industry meeting point”, at the Hotel Estrel in Berlin, Germany, for...

Cimento Itambé has awarded Aumund do Brasil and Schade Lagertechnik GmbH, Herne, a contract for the rebuilding of a limestone storage facility. Apart...

On 16.01.2012, Elmar Limley took over the product and ­system development department at the dry wall ­construction ­specialist Lafarge Gips. In this...

Since October 2011, Bruno Reckmann has been Sales Manager for the business divisions Conveying and Loading, ­Palletising and Packaging at the Beumer...

The Austrian building materials group Wietersdorfer & Peggauer Zementwerke GmbH (brand name baumit) placed an order with BT-Wolfgang ­Binder to set up a sand processing and mixing plant for building materials in Russia. This new plant with a value of about five million Euros is located in Kikerino (approx. 80 km west of St. Petersburg) and will annually produce about 50 000 t of mortar, adhesive and various screeding compounds. There a modular plant concept was...

The Portland Cement Association (PCA) has named Gregory M. Scott Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, effective 01.01.2012. He will head the...

At the beginning of the year 2012, Jörg Baldauf took over the sales management at Intensiv-Filter. He has 20 years experience in process technology....

After the first summit of the ­European Mortar Industry in Paris in June 2011, the next European Mortar Summit is scheduled to take place 2013. It is...

In December 2011, ZAB Zement­anlagenbau GmbH Dessau, a subsidiary of KHD Humboldt Wedag GmbH, carried out a successful performance test of the rotary...

At its production site at Heming/France, Holcim uses an Insitec on-line particle size analyzer (Fig.) from Malvern Instruments, to optimize the...

The Bedeschi Company is supplying a mobile crushing plant (Fig. 1) to Shurovsky Cement OJSC (Holcim Group) at the ­Kolomna plant (Moscow Region)....

With the LM_Master, Loesche Automation/Dusseldorf has introduced into its product portfolio a new product for increasing performance and for...

More than 800 participants found their way to New Delhi on the occasion of the 12th NCB Seminar, held at the Ashok Hotel Chanakyapuri (Fig. 1). The...

HeidelbergCement has been active in Eastern Europe for more than twenty years. The group’s Eastern Europe-Central Asia region, for which management...

The construction industry can take advantage of automated manufacturing processes and new

For cement grinding, the high-pressure grinding roll (HPGR) POLYCOM® and the static-dynamic separator SEPOL® PC can be installed as a finish-grinding...

Metapor® appears suitable as active filler in special binder systems on the basis of hydrated lime. It therefore presents itself as a low-cost,...

To decrease CO2 emissions in the cement industry, new cement-based binders are in the focus of attention, especially calcium-based systems,...