The Chemistry of Constructions Materials Divisions within the German Chemical Society issues an invitation to its conference that will take place at Dübendorf/CH near Zurich from 11.–12.10.2012....
The positive course of residential construction since 2009 is also reflected by the use of the building material cement in this market segment. Now the individual analyses of the German Cement Works...
Dust Control Technology has announced the introduction of a new low-turbulence design for applications in which a fan-driven mist would be undesirable. The DustBoss® DB-M (Fig.) is well suited to...
According to data of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (www.bgr.bund.de) each of us will consume about 1000 t of raw materials in the course of his lifetime. About two...
The Indian cement industry is comprised of 140 large and more than 365 smaller cement plants. It is the second largest cement producer in the world with an installed capacity of about...
Introduction
In a drive to reduce production costs and improve the environment, the cement industry is using more and more inexpensive fuels and raw materials, such as AFR and petcoke. Some successful...
1 Introduction
With an average per-capita cement consumption of 92 kg, the Sub-Saharan area of Africa is lagging far behind North Africa, whose average consumption is 553 kg. However, the countries...
In 2011, maxit Baustoffwerke GmbH (Fig. 1), which is based in Krölpa, Thuringia, was seeking a solution that would enable the company to manage its increasing quantity of delivery notes and provide...
Whether being used as building material for houses and staircases, for streets, tunnels and bridges or impressive dam walls – concrete is omnipresent in the modern construction industry and thus in...
The Fels-Werke GmbH operates three lime plants – Rübeland, Hornberg und Kaltes Tal – around the company’s Elbingerode location in the Eastern Harz district, extracting limestone to burn lime...
