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Editorial

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Dear Readers, I hope you have already looked at our cover page at the very back of the magazine? We, i.e. ZKG Cement Lime Gypsum, are celebrating an anniversary this year! Together with its...

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Spotlight

WORLD CEMENT ASSOCIATION (WCA)

Carbon Re joins WCA as Associate Corporate Member

The World Cement Association (WCA) has announced that the artificial intelligence company Carbon Re has become the latest addition to its international community, joining as an Associate Corporate...

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A TEC PRODUCTION & SERVICE GMBH

A TEC will install ReduChlor® Bypass in Switzerland

To reduce the chlorine content in the kiln system to allow an increase of the TSR (thermal substitution rate) in the kiln line of the cement plant in Eclépens/Switzerland, Holcim (Suisse) SA (a member...

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8-10 MARCH 2022, COLOGNE/GERMANY

Conference program for Filtech 2022 published

From March 8 to 10, 2022, visitors can experience over 240 presentations at Filtech 2022 in Cologne/Germany – more than ever before at the most important event for filtration and separation solutions...

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Products

FMS FORCE MEASURING SYSTEMS

Belt scales: A buyer’s guide

A failed conveyer belt scale can bring the whole bulk handling operation grinding to a halt. So surely it is necessary to opt for reliability above all else.The quarrying contract commits to removing ...

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Companies

Plant report

BHS-SONTHOFEN GMBH

Twin-shaft batch mixer deployed underground

What is to be done when there is no empirical data for the production conditions of using a mixer in advance? And what to do furthermore if the construction site of the mixer is difficult to access?...

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Materials

MAPEI SPA

Hexavalent chromium in cement, 15 years later

The object of this paper is to review, more than fifteen years after the introduction of directive 2003/53/EC, the technological aspects of the formation and reduction of soluble chromates in Portland...

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Engineering

Patents

US 2021/0372700 A1

System and method for producing cement clinker

(22) 15.08.2018(43) 02.12.2021(57) A bypass system may be utilized in installations and methods for producing cement clinker. A portion of a kiln offgas produced in a kiln may be branched off as...

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US 2021/0387909 A1

Method for using alkanolamine in a grinder

(22) 10.10.2019(43) 16.12.2021(57) Disclosed is a method for using a secondary or tertiary alkanolamine for grinding cement, the method including: forming an inorganic acid salt of the alkanolamine;...

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WO 2021/237389 A1

Mobile cement grinding station

(22) 25.05.2020(43) 02.12.2021(57) A mobile cement grinding station, comprising: a feeding module, a cement grinding module, a separating and dust removing module, and a storing and bulking module....

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Application

Column

The return to business as usual?

Again we find ourselves sketchin our plans for the new year! We are all hopeful again, that this will be the year in which we leave Covid behind and return to “business as usual”. Well, let’s at least ...

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Sustainability

DR. KRAUS & PARTNER

Sustainable business and work

What does sustainability mean to us? This is a question that companies need to address – partly because the consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly tangible around the world.

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Associations

BERUFSVERBAND DEUTSCHER GEOWISSENSCHAFTLER E.V. | PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN GEOSCIENTISTS

Gypsum named Rock of the Year 2022

The BDG Berufsverband Deutscher Geowissenschaftler e. V. (Professional Association of German Geoscientists) has named gypsum the Rock of the Year 2022. Gypsum has an exciting history of formation and ...

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