Since early 2012, the Sales Department of Lafarge in Germany is under the leadership of Marcel Kecke (Fig.). He was previously responsible for the management of Sales West. For the area East Klaus...
Over 900 participants attended the IEEE-IAS/PCA conference 2012 in San Antonio, Texas/USA. The 4-day conference with one day excursion to the TXI Hunter plant and the Cemex Balcones plant offered a...
Every two years, the European Gypsum Association gathers for its congress. Besides the exchange of information between the members, the event announces the new President for his 2-year leadership....
GEOMIN invested in a dolomite marble grinding system from NEUMAN & ESSER GmbH Mahl- und Sichtsysteme. The new grinding system is part of a long-term strategy aimed at developing new applications for...
The Germany industry produces 80 million t of carbon dioxide each year, 37 % of this alone by cement and lime producers according to the European Oeko-Institut e.V. The aim of reducing these...
As a general contractor, Ibau Hamburg led the construction of a cement terminal for Cementa HeidelbergCement Group at the port of Malmö/Sweden (Fig. 1). The multi-chamber silo, which is fed by a...
Temperature profiles in the axial direction of one industrial PFR kiln and two RCE kilns were measured using thermocouples. The results show that the temperatures in the PFR kiln fluctuate with...
1 Introduction
Operating mining companies need to face today’s market challenges in both economic and ecologic ways. The cost-effective production combined with a sustainable extraction management...
The first part of the article in issue 5/2012 dealt with the basics and case study I. It was shown, how MI-CFD modelling can be used to understand the thermo-fluid dynamics of a calciner. In Part II a...
On 23.05.2012 Christian Knell, General Manager Germany, received the certificate for the integrated management system of HeidelbergCement from Roland Glauser (Fig. left), Managing Director of the...
