By Mauro Nogarin The political instability that was experienced in 2020 created a very negative impact on the Bolivian economy that, added to the effects of the pandemic, significantly slowed down all those industrial activities vital for the country’s development. The entire productive sector such as the hydrocarbon, mining and construction industries suffered considerable losses. Only in October, when new…
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In The Face Of Accelerating Climate Action, Achieving Net-Zero CO2 Concrete Is Not Optional; It Is Essential. By Jonathan Rowland Climate change has been back in the headlines of late, after a new UN report was described as a “code red for humanity” by the UN secretary general. According to the report, the past 50 years have seen global surface…
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Virtual Server Solution In Plant Control System Upgrade At Cementos Argos Cartagena. By Mark S. Kuhar When Cementos Argos decided to upgrade the control system at its Cartagena cement plant in Colombia, they started on an unexpected journey. A journey that would end with the implementation of a virtualized high-availability automation system to host a number of FLSmidth’s software products…
Read MoreBy Mauro Nogarin According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2021, the Mexican economy is expected to have a growth of 5% due to an increase in manufacturing exports and benefiting from the economic recovery of the United States. Although on one hand there is a strong boost in external demand, with the export of manufactures,…
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By Mauro Nogarin According to the information published in the new report by the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU), in the second quarter of 2020, economic activity showed a very significant deterioration, registering a fall of 10.6% compared to the same period of 2019. This data constitutes the largest drop in quarterly national GDP since 1997.
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Why Water-Cooled Motors Are A Good Option To Boost Cement Plant Profitability. By Charles Blankenship and Len Eros
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After A Year Like No Other, What’s In Store For The Global Cement Industry This Year? By Jonathan Rowland
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Since The Beginning Of August The Government Has Been Analyzing The Possibility Of Tax Reform To Help The Construction Sector. By Mauro Nogarin
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It has not been the year anyone was expecting. That is as true in the cement industry as anywhere else. The impact of COVID-19 has brought many challenges, perhaps most visibly in the headline figures for cement demand around the world. But it has impacted the industry in other, more subtle, ways too: from sourcing fuels in a locked-down world…
Read MoreLast Year Was a Good One, 2020 Could Be as Well. By Mauro Nogarin
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