Issue 09/2012

Once again a great many events will take place in the second half of 2012. Already early in September the ­XXIX Technical Congress of the Federación...

As of May 2012 Starlinger & Co. GmbH, Austrian manufacturer of machinery for woven plastic packaging production and plastics recycling, has opened a...

Kornelius Thimm, and colleagues from Aarhus/Denmark, now comprise the team for the Customer Support CompetenceCenter for the BEUMER Group’s 20...

With effect from 01.08.2012 Danilo Buscaglia will take over the management of Lafarge in Germany. He will succeed ­Ulrich Aumüller who will be...

To mark its 100^th anniversary, Holcim is supporting ETH Zurich with an endowed chair for sustainable construction. The new professorship takes the...

ACCTA 2013 is the first international conference initiated from the SPIN project (Spearhead network for innovative, clean and safe cement and...

An innovative new dust suppression device has been introduced specifically for use at conveyor discharge points, designed to create a virtual curtain...

Prof. Dr. Marion Weissenberger-Eibl has been appointed as a member of the Supervisory Board of HeidelbergCement AG. She succeeds Dr.-Ing. Herbert...

Recycling should lead to closed loop economic circles in the ideal situation. The German gypsum industry shows how to make this ideal situation...

For their new 4000 t/d cement plant project in Karasu, the Turkish Nuryol Cimento Sanayi ve Ticaret A. S. have decided in favour of Loesche. The...

This year the Master of ­Science Susann Dietsch and the ­Master of Science Johannes ­Mahner were presented with the ­dornburger zement award by...

On 14.07.2012 the Burglengenfeld cement plant ( Fig. 1 ) of HeidelbergCement AG celebrated their 100^th anniversary with a ceremony and an open day....

The general meeting of the Association of the German Lime Industry (BVK) took place in the customary relaxed atmosphere on June 15^th, 2012. This...

The sense of heading for new horizons is really in the air. “We had so much struggle. Let us now watch out that our children do not need to suffer...

165 participants from 18 countries attended the KHD Humboldt Wedag meeting at the Möwenpick Hotel in ­Istanbul to acquire information about modern...

The 3^rd American Drymix ­Mortar Conference (admmc three) was organized by drymix.info, the international community for drymix mortars. The conference...

Gebr. Pfeiffer SE welcomed nearly 200 participants to the Pfeiffer Convention 2012 in Kaiserslautern ( Fig. 1 ). A varied and interesting selection...

At the IEEE-IAS/PCA 2012 in San Antonio, ZKG INTERNATIONAL met Mark Mueller, Chair of the next year’s conference in Orlando, Florida/USA, to be held...

The 20.10.2010 was a historical date for Zementwerk LEUBE GmbH: At exactly 8:10 p.m. was the start up for the new clinker production line. This € 31...

With increasing global cement production and new players in the market, a ­better packaging solution is required. Block bottom heat-sealed woven PP...

Depending on the saponification stability of the particular dispersion powder and its additive system the dispersion powders and their organic...

The laboratory scale-up process of the production of gypsum boards is the fundamental basis for an efficient formulation development and thus, for...