Cement Shipments Grow in May

Total shipments of portland and blended cement, including imports, in the United States and Puerto Rico in May 2023 were an estimated 10.1 million metric tons (Mt), a 4.3% increase from shipments in May 2022, according to the most recent USGS Mineral Industry Survey. Of total blended tonnage reported in May, 4.1 Mt (96%) was estimated to be portland-limestone cement (Type…

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Continental Cement to Get FLSmidth Alternative Fuel Tech 

Continental Cement, a wholly owned subsidiary of Summit Materials, awarded FLSmidth a contract for the first commercial installation of the FUELFLEX Pyrolyzer at its Davenport cement plant in Buffalo, Iowa. FLSmidth’s FUELFLEX Pyrolyzer enables cement plants to replace fossil fuels with waste-derived fuels in the calciner. The technology offers a lower CAPEX solution than competing technologies, noted FLSmidth, with the…

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Ardex Americas Banks On Pneumatic Conveying Line

Ardex Americas, a supplier of engineered cements, adhesives and high-performance building products, encountered wear problems at the elbows of its pneumatic conveying lines handling sand at its Dallas, Ga. plant.  The lines transfer materials between bulk handling trucks, eight silos, and batch-weighing and blending operations. Six of the silos hold cement, limestone and plaster. “Those materials are not very abrasive…

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Oxyfuel Makes the Cement Industry Greener

It’s no secret that the cement industry is a large CO2 emitter. Nevertheless, it is impossible to imagine our everyday lives without cement. A switch to more sustainable processes is essential to protect the climate and remain competitive. One solution, from the experts at thyssenkrupp Polysius, is called Oxyfuel. Understanding OxyfuelLarge quantities of carbon dioxide (CO2) are released during cement…

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Beumer Details U-Shape Conveyor; Palletizing Tools

The U-shape conveyor of Beumer Group enables environmentally friendly and efficient operation in port terminals. It allows the implementation of narrower curve radii than a troughed belt conveyor and higher mass flows than a pipe conveyor with an extremely dust-free transport. U-shape conveyors are therefore a safe investment, which can be easily integrated in an existing infrastructure. The demand for…

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Intralogistic Solutions for Modernizing Your Plant

Cement is the most commonly used building material worldwide and the market for cement products is continuously growing. However, manufacturers have to comply with ever stricter environmental regulations in order to get air pollution under control.  Depending on the processes used, the emissions from producing cement are at 0.6 to 0.99 t of CO2 per ton of cement. The CO2…

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BHS-Sonthofen Touts Black Sand Crushing Technology

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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