As cement manufacturers continue to seek reduced production costs and pursue alternative fuels and raw materials to fuel facilities, BEUMER Group will present low-cost, environmentally positive solutions to effectively integrate into existing systems at the IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Conference, May 1-5 in Las Vegas.
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CEMEX reopened the second line at its main cement operation in the Dominican Republic to increase production capacity by one-third and allow the company to better serve customers in the Caribbean.
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Holcim US received unanimous approval to become a member of the Carbon Capture Coalition, making it the first and only cement and concrete producer to join the nonpartisan collaboration.
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GCC, a leading supplier and producer of cement and concrete in the United States and Mexico, announced solid results for the first quarter of 2022.
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A fire broke out on April 12 at the alternative fuels system in the Holcim US Whitehall cement plant in Whitehall Township, Pa., reported local media. Firefighters aided by a fire suppression system quickly brought the fire under control.
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CalPortland plans to fully convert its Mojave cement plant, located 75 miles north of the Los Angeles Basin, to Advancement HS, a blended portland-limestone cement (PLC).
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Marking a big shift in helping to reduce CO2 emissions in construction across Western Canada, Lafarge Canada’s Richmond plant will manufacture only OneCem, the company’s lower carbon portland-limestone cement, for use in materials across British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest.
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Amreyah Cement is using crushing technology from BHS-Sonthofen in its plant in Egypt. The BHS rotor centrifugal crusher type RSMX 1222 is being used to recover high-quality additives from previously unused slag for the first time to make its cement production more sustainable. The customer benefited from experience gained from a BHS project in Abu-Dhabi during the implementation process. Sand…
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As digitalization and IoT become more of a reality across the cement industry, retrofitting manual operations becomes difficult. There is an increased need for Overall Operational Effectiveness (OOE). This proves to be a great challenge in a complex environment where various parts of the value chain are separated. Lehigh Hanson, the North American subsidiary of HeidelbergCement, has grown through acquisition,…
Read MoreSt Marys Cement’s Charlevoix Plant is located in Michigan, and is owned by parent company Votorantim Cimentos. The plant has been in operation since 1967 and is a leading supplier of cement throughout the Great Lakes. The original pre-heater tower was installed in 1978 and was equipped with a fan from the Green Fan Co. (now part of Howden) and…
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