By Ganesh Rajput The rise in construction and building activities is the primary growth driver for the global green cement market. The demand for these types of cement is being accelerated by uptake of alternative fuels derived from waste materials such as foundry sand, used oils, sewage sludge, solid recovered fuels, filter cakes, animal meals and fly ash. The urgent…
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3D MultiVision Software Alerts to Center of Gravity Danger
The walls of steel and concrete silos have been known to wear or fail causing cracking, denting, buckling and bending that can lead to catastrophic collapse. For operations that want to detect uneven loading of silos that contribute to these failures, BinMaster offers a new software option that uses the company’s 3DLevelScanners to identify the location of the center of…
Read MoreCemex Plants Hit 1,000-Day Safety Milestone
Three Cemex USA cement plants are setting the pace with high safety standards, each reaching more than 1,000 days without a lost-time injury (LTI).
Read MoreHeidelbergCement Sells Lehigh White Cement Stake
HeidelbergCement announced that its subsidiary Lehigh Cement Co. LLC has signed an agreement to sell its 51 percent position in Lehigh White Cement Co. to the minority shareholders Aalborg Cement Co. Inc. and Cemex Inc. The enterprise value of the transaction amounts to about $140 million.
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