This final issue of the 2010s provides a unique opportunity to look over the major cement sector events of the past 10 years, a contradictory decade of expansion and consolidation, overcapacity and huge new projects, with heightened environmental awareness alongside rising emissions. Here, Global Cement attempts to extract some sense from this confusing time...
This article looks at the cement sectors of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations to coincide with the 24th Arab-International Cement Conference & Exhibition, as well as an update about host nation Egypt.
Silicon Valley start-up Atollogy has developed a range of image recognition algorithms that offer cement plants advantages in terms of customer experience, health and safety and optimisation. David Perilli spoke to Atollogy to find out more...
Global Cement caught up with Micheál McKittrick, Ecocem’s recently-appointed Managing Director for Northern Europe, to talk about the company’s development, current trends and future plans.
Cement plants demand a strict quality regime throughout production in order to maintain control of quality. This is of increasing importance today: New kilns are increasingly in the 10,000 - 12,000t/day range, meaning that loss of quality over even a short period can result in a large amount of unsaleable product. At the same time, cement plants are using an increased range of raw and supplementary cementitious materials, as well as increasingly complex fuel blends, making consistency more of a challenge than in the past.
