The Philippine packaging manufacturer Sakomoto International Packaging Corporation supplies the local cement industry with AD*STAR sacks made of polypropylene fabric. In Caloocan City in the...
HeidelbergCement actively supports the sustainability goal of the UN, which aims at providing access to safe and affordable drinking water to all people. By signing the so-called WASH Pledge (“Pledge...
Starting 01.04.2018, Dr Stefan Kern will lead the A TEC Group. Wolfgang Hammer will hand over the management tasks completely to his former deputy. Stefan Kern started at A TEC in August 2013 and was...
On 10.07.2018, HeidelbergCement published its ninth Sustainability Report. The Sustainability Report 2017 was prepared according to the GRI Standards of the internationally recognised Global Reporting ...
Buzzi Unicem celebrated the 50th anniversary of the YUGcement plant on 25.05.2018, with company employees, the management of Dyckerhoff Ukraine, partner companies, YUGcement customers and suppliers ...
After two years of intense work, the first clinker was received on schedule at HeidelbergCement’s Burglengenfeld cement works in Germany in April 2018. IKN was awarded a contract for engineering,...
Monolithic walls erected with an appropriately modified thin-bed mortar should show superior thermal insulation properties. Admixing 10 vol.% fumed silica proved to reduce by 19% the thermal...
Cement pre-hydration degrades the performance of concrete, particularly strength and set times. Testing performed on 181 cements showed that more than one quarter had suffered enough pre-hydration to...
For the purposes of obtaining a high-performance clinker while reducing the requisite energy consumption, this paper investigates the temperature field distribution in a precalcining kiln and factors...
