On Oct. 17, 2013, Fernando Rivera, a journeyman electrician, was seriously injured when he fell from a step ladder approximately 6 ft. onto a concrete pad below at Lebec Cement Plant, a quarry and cement plant owned by National Cement Co. of California Inc. Rivera was standing on the ladder pulling electrical cable into a cable tray located on the…
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Titan America Plant Replaces Coal with Waste
Titan America’s Medley, Fl., plant has begun using selected waste, such as car bumpers and scrap cardboard, as an alternative to coal in cement production, according to the Sun Sentinel. The company is the first to use the waste-to-cement process on a large scale in Florida, states industry experts.
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SyncView software is a real-time visual factory information system that provides everyone – from operations to the extended supply chain and from the shop floor to the top floor – with a dynamic view of what is happening at every stage of the manufacturing process. The software offers complete transparency, ensuring that everyone is working from the same data and…
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The new, innovative Profi 75 TI and Profi 100 TI hoists offer SWL capacities of 75 and 100 metric tons (t), respectively. Existing products in the Profi range cover lift capacities from 550 lb. up to a full 60 t, ideally suited to engineering environments. These latest introductions, which incorporate savings in energy requirements as well as reductions in both weight and…
Read MoreDangote Looks to South America
Dangote Cement Plc, one of Africa’s biggest producer of building materials and Nigeria’s largest company, is looking at expanding in three South American countries and has signed a preliminary joint-venture agreement with one company, Dangote Group Executive Director Devakumar Edwin said.
Read MoreHeidelbergCement Closes Books on 2013
HeidelbergCement said it has brought the 2013 financial year to a successful close despite a very challenging environment, particularly in the second half of the year. The decisive factors in this achievement were the group’s geographical positioning in countries experiencing solid economic development in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, in addition to successfully implemented price increases in major markets…
Read MoreMagtec Scrubbers for Particulate Removal
The TurboVenturi scrubber from Magtec provides high-efficiency removal of particulates with virtually no maintenance, the company said. Features include: The Turbotak Wet Scrubber is for gas streams containing acid gas and particulate. It uses Turbotak Atomizing Nozzles and controls contaminants in one system with minimal pressure drop, lower water usage and less maintenance than other systems, noted the company. Features…
Read MoreScantech Software For Raw Material Feed
Scantech’s Blendscan software controls the proportioning of raw material feed into stockpiles or raw mills to obtain the desired product quality while respecting process limitations and minimizing the total material cost. The software is used to automate and optimize quality control of conveyed materials. In the cement industry, Blendscan Pile Offline and Blendscan Pile Online optimize limestone or marl pre-blending while Blendscan…
Read MoreFLSmidth Opens Office in Colombia
FLSmidth is expanding its operations in the Colombian market through the establishment of a new office in the city of Barranquilla in the northern part of the country. The new office opened Jan. 1, and will bring FLSmidth closer to its customers on the Colombian market and strengthen local service offerings. The Barranquilla office is part of FLSmidth’s extended activities…
Read MoreChemCare and Lafarge Subsidiary Reach Alternative Fuel Milestone
Global chemical distributor Univar Inc. has shipped its 100 millionth gallon of fuel-quality waste for reuse from its waste chemical business, ChemCare, to Systech Environmental Corp., a subsidiary of Lafarge. The achievement is the result of a 25-year partnership in environmental waste management between the two companies.
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