… is the old Transorga Cement AG headquartered in Zürich/Switzerland, The companies Intercem Engineering GmbH and Intercem Installation GmbH, both located in Oelde/Germany were to date known as...
Major changes will take place at DECHEMA’s top level at the beginning of 2010: Dr. Hans Jürgen Wernicke takes over as Chairman of the scientific society. He replaces Dr. Alfred Oberholz. Prof....
Masdar/UAE and BASF/Germany announced on 19.08.2009 a strategic partnership agreement for collaboration on the construction of Masdar City (Fig.), the world’s first CO2-neutral and zero-waste city....
In September 2009, Wacker Chemie AG and the Vietnam Institute of Building Materials (VIBM), a subsidiary of the Vietnamese Ministry of Construction, celebrated the opening of an independent dry-mix...
WACKER officially opened its new dispersible powder and vinyl acetate ethylene dispersion plant in Nanjing/China on 16.11.2009. With an annual capacity of 30 000 metric tons of dispersible powder,...
17th International Conference on Building Materials “ibausil”, Weimar/Germany (23.–26.09.2009)
For the 17th time, building material experts from all over the world met at the International Conference on Building Material “ibausil” in Weimar/Germany from 23rd to 26th September 2009 (Fig....
The SCK is the new kiln gas exit sampling system (Fig. 1) from ABB. It is the proven solution for the rough environmental conditions at the rotary kiln exit, where it can be installed outdoors,...
The Thermo Scientific Blast-Hole Xpert (BHX), an innovative new system from Thermo Fisher Scientific (Fig. 1), increases efficiency at the quarry by allowing real-time analysis of the “drill...
Holcim (US) announced on 17.08.2009 the opening of a new state of the art cement plant in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri/USA (Fig.1). President and CEO of Holcim (US) Bernard Terver said, “This is...
The product group SikaPlast opens up new possibilities for increasing efficiency in concrete manufacturing in the area of superplasticizers for ready-mix and site-mixed concrete. The uniformity of the...
