The specialty chemicals Group Altana with headquarters in Wesel/Germany, has signed an agreement to acquire the global rheology business of Rockwood Holdings U.S. Inc.. The associated company section...
After the successful implementation of the Advantage Select sack Kraft Paper in 2-ply cement bag solutions in Asia and Africa, Mondi Kraft Paper is now up for a new challenge – the South...
On 01.07.2013, the STEAG Power Minerals GmbH and the Hawar Group in Qatar in the Persian Gulf established a joint venture under the name “Hawar Power Minerals”. The aim of the new company based in...
On the occasion of the 7th International VDZ Congress in Duesseldorf/Germany, the Klaus Dyckerhoff Prize was awarded to Duncan Herfort for his outstanding work in the field of cement production....
In 2013 Liebherr presented the shovel version of its 350-tonne mining excavator R 9400. Equipped with a 22 m3 bucket in its standard version the R 9400 is the ideal machine to load a 130-150 t payload...
Liebherr has presented its T 264 mining truck at the Bauma 2013 in Munich. With its maximum payload of 218 tonnes and an empty vehicle weight (EVW) of 167 tonnes, the truck reaches a maximum gross...
Integrated Engineering is the contemporary buzzword in plant planning. Collecting and using all data centrally sounds good in theory, but does not, unfortunately, always work in practice. Only in the...
It is a well known problem that when filling products with different particle shapes, sizes or weights, a separation occurs that deteriorates significantly the quality of the mix - such as powder...
Introduced in 1963, the Cat® 988 large wheel loader has been the industry leader for 50 years. Over that period, Caterpillar has manufactured more than 20 000 units. Built to operate over...
Continuous availability of production machinery is of enormous importance for building materials producers in maintaining their competitiveness. However, another important consideration is the...
