Content

Editorial

Time to set new goals

Dear readers of ZKG International, another year is drawing to a close, leaving us wondering just where all the time has gone. But before we plunge into a new, exciting year with a host of fresh ...

more

Spotlight

GEBR. PFEIFFER SE

TRT Triplex dryer for drying FGD gypsum in India

A customer from the Indian cement industry, Kolkata-based Shree Cement Ltd., ordered a TRT 5000/8.0 Triplex dryer from Gebr. Pfeiffer.As in many countries, the power supply from the electrical network...

more
AUMUND FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH

Dr.-Ing. Pietro de Michieli new Managing Director

On 01.09.2018, Aumund Fördertechnik GmbH appointed Dr.-Ing. Pietro de Michieli as its new Managing Director, to focus on equipment sales, spare parts, after sales service and Premas® 4.0, at the...

more
HAVER & BOECKER DEUTSCHLAND GMBH

Focusing on the German market

While other companies are closing their German external sales services, Haver & Boecker is investing in its sales channels with its own company. In order to focus even more strongly on the needs of...

more
SIKA AG

Sika further expands capacities in Russia

Sika is opening a new production plant for concrete admixtures near Yekaterinburg/Russia. In the area around the plant, there are five cities with populations of over one million and attractive...

more
GEBR. PFEIFFER SE

Gebr. Pfeiffer Malaysia office opening

Gebr. Pfeiffer initially formed a representative office in Malaysia in 2016 and have most recently established a private limited company to more fully support their clients in the Southeast Asia...

more
GEBR. PFEIFFER SE

Gebr. Pfeiffer wins another order in Nepal

Gebr. Pfeiffer (India) Pvt. Ltd., the Indian subsidiary of Gebr. Pfeiffer SE, Kaiserslautern/Germany, has received an order to supply another mill to the Himalayan state of Nepal.Samrat Cement Company...

more
MC-BAUCHEMIE MÜLLER GMBH & CO. KG

MC-Bauchemie opens new company in Denmark

At the end of August 2018, MC-Bauchemie founded a new sales company in Denmark, MC-Bauchemie Danmark ApS. The new affiliate is based in Slangerup in the Copenhagen area.Klaus Lebæk and Walter Devue...

more
HEIDELBERGCEMENT AG

Engineering & Innovation under new management

Dr. Jennifer Scheydt is the new head of the Engineering & Innovation department at HeidelbergCement in Germany, based in Leimen. She succeeds Eckhard Bohlmann who has retired. The main task of the...

more
MAERZ OFENBAU AG

New business field

Since October 2017, Maerz is able to offer a completely new product line: with the integration of Elex CemCat AG we supply in our new business unit “CemCat” Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) plants...

more
REFRATECHNIK HOLDING GMBH

Magnesia joint venture in China signed

Refratechnik, Haicheng Guotian Mining and Yingkou Jinlong Refractories have signed a joint venture contract for the production of high-grade caustic calcined magnesia (CCM) and dead burned magnesia ...

more
19.02.-21.02.2019, NEU-ULM/GERMANY

Save the date: 63rd BetonTage

A high-caliber program, prominent speakers and collegial networking have been hallmarking the BetonTage in the German city of Neu-Ulm for many years now. The annual industry event will run for the ...

more
SIKA AG

Sika commissions two new plants in Kazakhstan

Sika is expanding its presence in Kaz-akhstan and strengthening its position in two of the country’s growth regions. To reinforce existing production operations in Almaty in the southeast of the...

more

Products

Companies

Events

INTERNATIONAL LIME ASSOCIATION GENERAL ASSEMBLY, CAPE TOWN/ SOUTH AFRICA

Chile and China strengthen International Lime Association

More than 100 delegates from 22 countries and five continents met from 10.10.-12.10.2018 for the General Assembly and Information Exchange Forum of the International Lime Association (ILA) in Cape ...

more

Interview

DR. LUC RUDOWSKI, CEMENT TECHNOLOGIES BUSINESS UNIT OF THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS, GERMANY

Customer centricity is our perspective

thyssenkrupp has established itself as a full-service provider in the cement industry. We talked to Dr. Luc Rudowski, Head of Product Management, Technology, Innovation and Sustainability at the ...

more

Process

Materials

Patents

GEP20186897 (B)

Method for cement production

(22) 02.02.2017(43) 25.09.2018(57) Cement production method includes burning clinker in a furnace at the temperature 1450°C, cleaning from a dust with filtration in a filter of furnace gas containing...

more
SG11201806649R (A)

Rapid-hardening mortar composition

(22) 31.03.2017(45) 27.09.2018(57) This rapid-hardening mortar composition includes: a rapid-hardening admixture; cement; and a fine aggregate, wherein the cement is contained in an amount of 100...

more
WO 2018/168637 A1

Method for using fly ash

(22) 08.03.2018(43) 20.09.2018(57) A method for using fly ash, said method comprising: measuring the unburned carbon content of fly ash (PCF ash) generated from a pulverized coal combustion boiler;...

more
WO 2018/174842 A1

Viscosity modifiers and methods of use thereof

(22) 20.03.2017(43) 27.09.2018(57) A method of cementing a wellbore comprises injecting into the wellbore a cement slurry comprising an aqueous carrier, a swellable nanoclay, and a solid delayed...

more
WO 2018/178830 A1

Hydraulic cement formulation

(22) 23.03.2018(43) 04.10.2018(57) The invention relates to a hydraulic cement formulation that allows the content of clinker to be substantially reduced, the hydraulic cement formula comprising...

more