Mondi Group has appointed Erik Bouts as its CEO Fibre Packaging effective from 01.04.2017. Erik Bouts is replacing Jussi Vanhanen, who decided to leave Mondi to lead a private-equity-owned business in...
The sale of the Xella Group to Lone Star, announced on 01.12.2016, was comp-leted at 11.04.2017. The parties agreed not to disclose details of the transaction.
After a strategic realignment and the...
In the harbor of Hanko, the southernmost point in Finland, there is presently a cement import terminal being built which will serve as a distributor for the concrete factories in that area. The very...
In the year 2017, the maxit Group (Azendorf) is making further investments running into millions of euros.
The well-known mortar and paint manufacturer will channel around € 10 million into the...
Cirkel GmbH & Co. KG based in Haltern am See is erecting a new, state-of-the-art lime-sand brickworks at its Neuenkirchen-Vörden site in Lower Saxony.
The investment concept foresees innovations in...
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The investigation on the correlation between milling process parameters and energy consumption is well known [1]. Hitherto the following empirical differential equation
dW = – C...
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In the field of construction, the 21st century is considered to be the century of the ocean [1]. In recent decades, with the steady development of the marine economy, the construction...
Higher efficiency, lower energy consumption and keeping things as simple as possible – these are decisive trends when speaking of grinding processes in the cement industry. In cement plants,...
Hot process air is one of the most important energy sources in a cement plant. Dyckerhoff uses fuel oil for heating up, and then switches to pulverised lignite which is blown into the rotary kiln by...
One of the largest cement producers in the state of Texas/USA has eliminated a source of fugitive material and equipment damage on one of its essential conveyor arteries transporting crushed...
