Dragon Products, a dealer for Utah trailer specialist Ranco by Western, arrived at ConExpo-Con/Agg with the “Cement Pig,” a customized SP 55-4100 Guppy Bottom Dump, splashed with horizontal cement storage nomenclature. The 23,500-lb. trailer is equipped with a 20-in. aluminum cast pressure cover, six hopper bottoms, plus one 5-in. discharge and two 4-in. blow down lines. Equal to 4,100 cu.…
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Regal Rexnord Corp., a global manufacturer focused on the engineering and manufacturing of electric motors and controls, power generation products and power transmission components, featured its RexPro engineered steel chain and bearings product line at the 2023 IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Conference at the Dallas-Hilton Anatole, April 23-27. Visitors to the company’s booth participated in a hands-on demonstration by the Regal Rexnord…
Read MoreBy Mauro Nogarin The Bolivian vice minister of industrial production affirmed that the construction works of the new Potosí cement plant, which belongs to the Bolivian Cement Productive Public Company (Ecebol), continues unabated and, according to a new technical report, it will begin operations in November. “Currently, civil works present a 99% progress, the mechanical and electrical part 93%, that…
Read MoreTotal construction starts fell 4% in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.04 trillion, according to Dodge Construction Network. Nonresidential starts led the drop as manufacturing fell 22% following strong performance in March. To balance the decline, nonbuilding starts rose 7%, and residential building stats gained 12%. On a year-to-date basis through April, total construction starts were 7%…
Read MoreContinental 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, 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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World’s Largest Calcined Clay Kiln Requires Precise Metering And Blending. By Ernesto Duran Argos Rio Claro, Colombia, owned and operated by its parent company Cementos Argos, wanted to achieve a higher clinker substitution rate for its portland cement, by blending alternative cementitious materials. This substitution is helping to advance the company’s sustainability drive to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050…
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Refractory Maintenance Is Unavoidable, But An Experienced Crew With The Right Equipment Can Minimize Scheduled Downtime And Virtually Eliminate Installation Mistakes That Could Lead To Emergency Maintenance. By Heather Harding Time is money. No place is this adage more appropriate than the manufacturing industry. When even one piece of the system is down, whether for routine maintenance or an unexpected…
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Though It’s Important To Inspect Silos Frequently, In-House Silo Inspections Carry Too Many Limitations And Safety Concerns To Warrant Skipping A Professional Assessment. By Dennis Blauser In the summer of 2022, a grain silo in Iowa had a catastrophic failure. Two workers were unloading grain into a holding shed onsite at the time of the silo failure. Though one worker…
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António Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations, called for “sustained and immediate” action on net zero while addressing around 200 cement and concrete industry leaders at the Global Cement and Concrete Association’s CEO Gathering and Leaders Conference in Zurich.
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