To mark its 100th anniversary, Holcim is supporting ETH Zurich with an endowed chair for sustainable construction. The new professorship takes the place of an assistant professorship of the same name...
With effect from 01.08.2012 Danilo Buscaglia will take over the management of Lafarge in Germany. He will succeed Ulrich Aumüller who will be responsible for new tasks within the Lafarge Group...
Kornelius Thimm, and colleagues from Aarhus/Denmark, now comprise the team for the Customer Support CompetenceCenter for the BEUMER Group’s 20 regional companies around the world. Thimm also heads...
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Gypsum based binders are widely used in construction. Combined with water and air, there are a huge variety of cost-competitive products which can be poured, sprayed or extruded to...
Drymix.info, the global network on dry mortar, has scheduled a series of events for fall 2012. Online registration to all events is available at www.drymix.info. The call for papers has already ended....
On 26.09.2012 Loesche GmbH issues an invitation to the very first Technical Seminar in Duesseldorf/Germany. The seminar contents are aimed at newcomers and suppliers to the cement industry as well...
ABB, EKZ GETEC and Jura Cement have signed an agreement to install an ABB system at the Wildegg AG cement plant, which generates power from waste heat. The advanced solution is based on ORC...
On 09.07.2012 W. R. Grace & Co. announced that it has acquired Rheoset Industria e Comercio de Aditivos Ltda. (“Rheoset”). Rheoset is a leading manufacturer of concrete admixtures in Brazil....
As of May 2012 Starlinger & Co. GmbH, Austrian manufacturer of machinery for woven plastic packaging production and plastics recycling, has opened a representative office in Tashkent/Uzbekistan. The...
The 3rd American Drymix Mortar Conference (admmc three) was organized by drymix.info, the international community for drymix mortars. The conference took place at the Hilton Miami Downtown Hotel in...
