2nd Virtual American Cement Conference 2022
Wednesday 30 - Thursday 31 March 2022
9:00am - 4:00pm Central Standard Time
(Chicago, Houston, Monterrey, Mexico City)
www.AmericanCement.com
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The 2nd Virtual American Cement Conference - from Global Cement Magazine - will cover the latest developments in continental, regional and national cement markets, as well as looking at the latest technology and case studies from North, Central and South America. Note that the Conference will be run on Central Standard Time (Chicago, Houston, Monterrey, Mexico City). The conference language is English.
Over 800 delegates registered to attend the 1st Virtual American Cement Conference, from 86 countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, US Minor Outlying Islands, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia
Free registration includes attendance at the webinar, live Q&A, a download of the programme and basic delegate list, attendance at the post-event Zoom meet-up and access to the post-event video.
The Premium Delegate Pack is available for purchase (use the link below) for GBP£49.95 (includes on-the-day downloads of the presenter slides and full delegate list with opted-in emails). After purchase, you will be emailed a link to download the Premium Delegate Pack on the day of the event.
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Seminar participants are automatically enrolled as registered users of Global Cement - including free news updates, magazine notifications and more.
For commercial enquiries, including sponsored presentations, please contact Paul Brown, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or +44 776 7475 998.
The organisers retain the right to rescind any registration at any time, for any reason, and to vary the programme and/or offering, with no recompense or recourse.
What the delegates said about the 1st Virtual American Cement Conference 2021:
• Excellent overview and so glad to have a conference despite covid.
• Keep up the good work done to continue and carry on these series of virtual conference.
• All presentations were valuable
• Great organization.
• It was a privilege to meet all the presenters.
• Very well thought and prepared conference, the technology used for the virtual conference was flawless.
• The quality of presentation was good.
• Excellent content
• First time attending. Very good program, timing and presenters
• This virtual conference is very good and helped us a lot with new technics and emerging technologies
• It was very good
• I have been enjoying these last months all your different virtual conferences. Now waiting for the real ones to come back.
• The content was diverse and thought provoking.
• I really enjoyed the virtual platform.
• Virtual conferences are an understood reality... but hopefully not forever. Personal networking adds value to live conferences.
• Keep up the great work!
• Many Thanks
• As I always say, keep on working the same way. Congratulations!!!
Programme 2021
Programme is run on Central Standard Time (Chicago, Houston, Monterrey, Mexico City)
DAY 1 - Tuesday 27 April
10.00 Exhibition time
Session 1
11.00 Welcome and housekeeping, Dr Robert McCaffrey, moderator
11.10 Keynote: Paper 1: 'Update on US cement industry trends,' Ed Sullivan, US Portland Cement Association
11.35 Q&A
11.45 Paper 2: 'Business optimization by digitalization & automation: Now available IAS SUITE,' Jeffrey Lewis, Axians Industrial Applications & Services USA
12.10 Q&A
12.20 Paper 3: 'Using artificial intelligence in American cement supply chains,' Justin Newell, Chief Operating Officer, INFORM Software Corporation
12.45 Q&A
12.55 Paper 4: 'Best practice in open gear maintenance & lubrication,' Klaus Holz, FUCHS LUBRITECH, Ed Banashak, FUCHS Lubricants Co.
13.20 Q&A
13.30 Lunch break and Exhibition time
Session 2
14.15 Keynote: Paper 5: 'Current situation in Brazil and in the Brazilian cement industry,' João Butkus, Butkus Consulting
14.40 Q&A
14.50 Paper 6: 'Beat the heat! Reduce kiln baghouse outages and increase productivity,' Nathan Schindler, Evonik USA
15.15 Q&A
15.25 Paper 7: ‘Prolonging kiln operation with fully-automatic cooling on the spot,' Dirk Schmidt, Ronny Acevedo, Kima Process Control GmbH
15.50 Q&A
16.00 Paper 8: ‘Modular grinding plants in the Americas,' Phillip Hempel, Gebr. Pfeiffer SE
16.25 Q&A
16.35 Summary and programme end: Exhibition time
DAY 2 - Wednesday 28 April
10.00 Exhibition time
Session 3
11.00 Welcome and housekeeping, Dr Robert McCaffrey, moderator
11.05 Keynote: Paper 9: 'The US cement import story,' John Kline, John Kline & Associates
11.30 Q&A
11.40 Paper 10: 'Scalable carbon capture for the cement industry,' Glen Bailey, Carbon Clean
12.05 Q&A
12.15 Paper 11: ‘Filtration considerations for modifying Supplementary Cementitious Material (SCM) content in cement mills,’ Daniel Locke, Scheuch North America
12.40 Q&A
12.50 Paper 12: 'Maintenance free - No spill, no dust at your transfer point,' Thorsten Koth, ScrapeTec GmbH
13.15 Q&A
13.25 Lunch break and Exhibition time
Session 4
14.00 Paper 13: ‘Ecological hoppers for the grab reception of cement clinker in ports,’ David Sierwald, SAMSON Materials Handling Ltd.
14.25 Q&A
14.35 Paper 14: 'Reduction of energy consumption by the exchange of pneumatic screw pumps (Fuller pumps) by the Kreisel highly-wear-resistant rotary feeder,’ Mario Dikty, KREISEL
15.00 Q&A
15.10 Paper 15: 'Compaction to perfection: fast and automated sample preparation with the new ToniVIB,' Navin Beckmann, Toni Technik Baustoffprüfsysteme GmbH
15.35 Q&A
15.45 Paper 16: Closing keynote: ‘Using graphene to reduce CO2 emissions from cement and concrete,’ Terrance Barkan, The Graphene Council
16.10 Q&A
16.20 Closing remarks and farewell.
16.25 Event closes - Exhibition time
