Issue 10/2013

… there was a great ocean, and microorganisms, and limitless time, and money didn’t matter. Today, we have exploitable limestone deposits, very little...

On the occasion of the 7th Inter­national VDZ Congress in Duesseldorf/Germany, the Klaus Dyckerhoff Prize was awarded to Duncan Herfort for his...

After the successful implementation of the Advantage Select sack Kraft Paper in 2-ply cement bag solutions in Asia and Africa, Mondi Kraft Paper is...

Indocement, Indonesia’s second-largest cement producer has ordered seven vertical roller mills from Loesche GmbH, Duesseldorf/Germany, for the new...

Since 01.09.2013 Wolfram Kreisel is head of Kreisel GmbH & Co. KG and its subsidiary. Thus the Krauschwitz company founded in 1912 is again led by a...

Continuous availability of production machinery is of enormous importance for building materials producers in maintaining their competitiveness....

Introduced in 1963, the Cat® 988 large wheel loader has been the industry leader for 50 years. Over that period, Caterpillar has manufactured more...

It is a well known problem that when filling products with different particle shapes, sizes or weights, a separation occurs that deteriorates...

Integrated Engineering is the contemporary buzzword in plant planning. Collecting and using all data centrally sounds good in theory, but does not,...

Liebherr has presented its T 264 mining truck at the Bauma 2013 in Munich. With its maximum payload of 218 tonnes and an empty vehicle weight (EVW) of...

In 2013 Liebherr presented the shovel version of its 350-tonne mining excavator R 9400. Equipped with a 22 m3 bucket in its standard version the R...

Following the success of the first Quarry Life Award in 2012, for which more than three hundred projects were entered, Heidelberg­Cement has now...

If lime, marl and clay from different sources in variable quality and alternative raw materials are fed to a mixing process, a specific strategy for...

The transportation/handling of bulk goods on a large scale is of vital importance for the cement industry. Specialists such as Bedeschi have dealt...

The objective of the described study was to investigate the feasibility of glass fibre reinforcement of cellular concrete. Particular aims were to...

In India, almost all the available cement grade limestone reserves suitable for the production of cement have been acquired under mineral concessions....