Issue 12/2013

More or less 250 days of demanding work are behind us. In the final analysis, careful thought, concentration, and much painstaking planning are the...

Ghassan Broummana has taken over the responsibility as Managing Director of the A TEC Group on 01.10.2013. In his position he will be primarily...

Andre Tissen has been Manager of the Cement Business Unit at Beumer Group in Beckum since October 2013. In this function, he controls and coordinates...

Dr. Reinhold Festge, Managing Partner of HAVER & BOECKER in Oelde, Germany, has been elected as the new president of the German Engineering Federation...

To increase the cement grinding capacity at its plant in Isparta, the Turkish Göltas Cimento A.S. has ordered a Loesche vertical roller mill of the...

Coperion GmbH from Weingarten/Germany recently supplied and successfully commissioned a wear-protected rotary valve for the RWE Power AG...

Martin Engineering from Nepon­set, IL/USA has announced a conveyor belt cleaner engineered specifically for the aggregate industry. The M­artin® PV™...

The Austrian company Mondi Industrial Bags is well known for its industrial bags. But it is less known that Mondi’s expertise in filling powdery goods...

The Bardusch Group introduced its new range of products for professional life in November at the A+A show in Dusseldorf. The industry-specific...

The new MAXXI II commercial vacuum cleaner from Nilfisk-ALTO, a Nilfisk-Advance GmbH brand, is the ideal aid for removal of both wet and dry dirt....

Telescopic mast and multifunctional welding inverters make welding work

Worldwide and for more than five decades Turbofilter GmbH has been offering a broad spectrum of industrial dust cleaning equipment that meets highest...

The 2013 edition of the annual European Parliament Gypsum Forum, which took place in Brussels on 16.10.2013, was a great opportunity to present the...

“Why Geseke?” was one of a number of questions that kicked off this year’s second ZKG student excursion. The limestone deposits on the south-eastern...

How do the manufacturers of equipment for the cement industry see the subject of service, repair and maintenance? ZKG spoke to Peter Herrmann, head of...

1 Introduction In the bulk materials processing industry, raw materials are generally stored in silos prior to processing. For logistical or...

One of the most experienced slag handlers in the USA in the state of Washington has implemented a high-performance dust control system to prevent the...

Machine malfunctions and breakdowns can cause long downtimes, especially in intralogistics, causing production and delivery to come to a complete...

The heat evolved during the synthesis of 11.3 Å tobermorite from lime and quartz is 125 kJ/kg and the synthesis of xonolite is 50 kJ/kg, which raises...

The future of machine and plant engineering will be determined by the efficiency of supply chain management (SCM). In the long-term, companies will...

The basis for designing a pneumatic conveying system is precise knowledge of the material to be conveyed. This is gained by means of raw material...