- Written by Robert McCaffrey, Global Cement Magazine
Global Cement recently caught up with Cembureau’s Chief Executive Koen Coppenholle to discuss the association’s 5C Approach to mitigating CO2 emissions and wider trends in cement sector sustainability...
- Written by Olaf Michelswirth, Intercem Engineering
In 2015, the idea was born by the industrial start-up Cem’In’Eu to create a new offering for cement materials that was both better adapted to the needs of local actors and closer to them. A modular cement grinding unit with smaller production capacities was intended to be built in strategic locations that offered good access by road, river and rail. For this purpose, reliable and experienced contract partners had to be found for the realisation of this ambitious project. The grinding unit for the first of seven identical regional grinding plants has now been realised by Cem’In’Eu in partnership with partners that include Intercem Engineering, which was to engineer, deliver and commission the plant’s grinding plant module...
- Written by Peter Edwards, Global Cement Magazine
The Lixhe cement plant, operated by HeidelbergCement subsidiary CBR, has been producing cement since 1950. Ahead of the visit by Global CemFuels’ delegates
on 22 February 2019, Global Cement spoke to Plant Manager Benoit Gastout...
- Written by Peter Edwards, Global Cement Magazine
Vincent Grosskopf has more than 45 years of experience in bulk material handling, particularly regarding the safety of coal grinding systems. As the founder of Coal Mill Safety, he acts as a consultant to those seeking to design and build safe greenfield coal grinding systems or improve existing installations. However, since such systems are often an ‘afterthought’ within the cement sector, there’s a lot of work to be done...
- Written by Robert McCaffrey, Global Cement Magazine
Global Cement Magazine recently visited the Fushë Krujë Cement Factory (FKCF) in Albania - a ‘hybrid’ plant with aspects of both the old and the new - to understand the unique challenges that the plant faces and the strenuous efforts that it is taking to overcome them.
