How Choosing The Right Component Can Save Energy In Your Cement Plant. By Keith Kressley, Gary Werth, Frank Speck and Markus Locher Energy saving is becoming ever more important in the cement industry. Fortunately, today’s components for pneumatic conveying provide significant saving opportunities for manufacturers in this industry. Especially the development of new surface wear protection coatings for conveying abrasive…
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Producers Can Expect Improved Efficiency, Capital And Operating Costs, And A Conveying Process That Is Environmentally Friendly And Sustainable. By Simon Shipp The modern industrial process plant is often more sophisticated than the bulk transport method connecting it to its raw materials. Advances in overland conveyor technology have improved efficiency, capital and operating costs, and made the conveying process more…
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With The Help Of Linear Optimization, A Cement Manufacturer Maximizes Profit Margins While Seeding Future Growth Opportunities. By Ryan Brown Deciding how best to use limited resources is a universal issue that spares no individual or business. In today’s competitive quarter-to-quarter environment, it’s critically important to your business’s profitability (and longevity) that its people and assets are used most efficiently.…
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Using Wear-Resistant Rotary And Diverter Valves To Help The Cement Industry Meet Requirements For Handling Abrasive Materials. By Keith Kressley, Gary Werth and Frank Speck
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Hakan Gurdall Jon Morrish Kevin Gluskie As a result of long-term oriented succession planning and the planned acquisition of Italcementi, HeidelbergCement announced that the managing board agreements of Daniel Gauthier and Andreas Kern, which expire on June 30, 2016, will not be extended. Three new members will join the managing board, effective Feb. 1, 2016, and a new managing board function will be…
Read MoreThe Cement Association of Canada (CAC) applauded the Liberal Party and incoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on their historic victory in the recent Canadian general election. The association said it was pleased that the Liberal Party is committed to national leadership on climate change as well as joining provinces and territories to put a price on carbon and reduce carbon…
Read MoreTotal shipments of portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico in July 2015 were about 9.3 million metric tons (Mt), up slightly from the level in July 2014, according to the most recent USGS Mineral Industry Survey. Shipments for the year through July totaled 50.0 Mt, up by 3.4 percent from the same period in 2014.
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More than 100 Lafarge customers and staff recently gathered in Nova Scotia for the 50th anniversary of the Brookfield cement plant and reflect on its continued role in building the Atlantic Canada region. Officials characterized the event as an important milestone marking five decades of customer excellence, industrial performance and community partnership at the region’s sole cement plant. (from left)…
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An Emerging Market Multinational With Distinctive Capabilities. By Pankaj Ghemawat
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The True Cost of Dust Shuttling and a Viable Alternative. By Melissa Harrison
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