HeidelbergCement has been active in Eastern Europe for more than twenty years. The group’s Eastern Europe-Central Asia region, for which management board member Andreas Kern is responsible, serves...
In December 2011, ZAB Zementanlagenbau GmbH Dessau, a subsidiary of KHD Humboldt Wedag GmbH, carried out a successful performance test of the rotary kiln plant that was recently constructed on a...
Over the past 170 years concrete based on Ordinary Portland cement (OPC) is the material basis of the construction industry. Next to water concrete is the globally most used material nowadays [1]....
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In recent years there have been no really new and profound technical developments in kiln technology and none are to be expected in the cement industry in the foreseeable future....
A new procedure to produce synthesis gas from flexible input materials – from biomasses to old plastics containing chlorine – should allow energy-intensive industries to greatly reduce the use of...
On 06.12.2011, the 1st drymix-CONVENTION took place successfully from 08:00 until 20:00 CET. It was organized jointly by Vincentz Network and drymix.info, the International Community for Drymix...
Energy will remain a vital topic throughout 2012 and beyond. In production, work is proceeding at full speed on economising on energy in the form of fuels (thermal) and in drive systems (electrical)....
On 12.01.2012, HeidelbergCement officially inaugurated a new cement mill at its plant in the seaport Chittagong in Bangladesh. The ball mill has a grinding capacity of about 0.8 million t/a. The...
Germany’s cement industry is concentrating its forces. The reform of joint institutions scheduled for this spring will also include organisational merging of the “Verein Deutscher Zementwerke”...
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Modern construction materials are based on the hydraulic binder Portland cement, mainly used for manufacturing concrete and next to water, the globally most used material. Currently...
