Issue 12/2012

The building materials sector looks at Eastern Europe with expectation and interest. Even though a cement production of more than 80 million tons for...

Dr. Daniel Strohmeyer returned to Loesche GmbH, Düsseldorf, in September and takes over the position as Head of Process Technology (PT). Together...

Michael Nisch started on November 1^st, 2012, at Loesche ThermoProzess GmbH (LTP) in Gelsenkirchen as Sales Director and member of the management. In...

FLSmidth MAAG Gear has widened the production capabilities at their gear production facilities in Poland. A major investment in machinery enables...

Gebr. Pfeiffer, Inc., a subsidiary of Gebr. Pfeiffer SE, with headquarters in Kaiserslautern, ­Germany, was recently awarded a contract to supply an...

Italcementi will invest € 150 million to make the Rezzato plant the most efficient and eco-friendly cement plant in Europe. Built in 1964, the plant...

The market for cement production machinery evolves further every year. Demands and requirements steadily increase. Manufacturers have to react and...

Standard Industrie International designs and manufactures equipment that facilitates the storage, flow and conveying of powders and bulk materials....

Interesting lectures and a highly vivid exchange of information were part of the agenda of the first Round Table for the Arabian Peninsula ( Fig. 1 )...

The annual conference of the Chemistry of Construction Materials Division of the GDCh (German Chemical Society) held in Dübendorf/Switzerland – and...

About 600 scientists as well as practical engineers from approx. 40 countries met at the ibausil in Weimar for an animated exchange of views ( Fig. 1...

The 6 ^th International Gypsum Conference of the Russian Gypsum Association (RGA) took place in Perm (­Russia) from 5 ^th to 7 ^th September 2012. It...

The Djebel Ressas plant in Tunisia will be the largest and technologically most advanced in North Africa, with a production capacity of almost two...

In the coming years, Russia’s cement industry will have great growth opportunities but will also face enormous challenges as a consequence of its...

The new SCR process – “ semi-dust raw gas circuit ” – for NO _x separation was successfully implemented by Scheuch for Lafarge Perlmooser GmbH in...

The MVR vertical roller mill and the MultiDrive^® from Gebr. Pfeiffer SE provide solutions for the cement industry that are ideally suited for meeting...

The use of antimony compounds as reducing agents for hexavalent chromium has proved to be the best solution regarding long term reduction, absence of...