Articles on the cement industry from Global Cement

Filling the void: Break the inertia of inaction

James Pope, one of the co-founders of Beaumont Bailey, is an executive head-hunter specialised in placing board level, senior functional, country and cluster leadership across the building materials industries, with a particular focus on cement.

How the global cement industry can bridge the gap between retiring senior leadership and promising early career talent.

A changing picture for basic refractories

$With new fuels, CCS and the possibility of lower-temperature clinker processes coming down the track, there are interesting times ahead for cement producers and refractory manufacturers alike. Source: Seyed Mohamad Ali Alavi, Sabzevar Cement, Iran.$

Bernd Scheubel looks at how changing cement sector dynamics, in particular the drive to reduce CO₂ emissions, could affect the global refractories sector.

Novel gypsum purification process could cut costs for Indian cement producers

Byproduct phosphogypsum is piling up in stockpiles around India.

Carbon Cycle has developed a novel method to purify gypsum that could transform the supply of gypsum to the Indian cement sector...

Cement in China

Beijing has enjoyed lower levels of pollution in recent years after government-mandated reductions in coal burning and industrial activity. Image source: Picrazy2, CC BY-SA 4.0.

China is exiting a prolonged period of cement sector growth. The consequences could be far reaching, both at home and abroad...

In discussion - AI in the cement sector

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In March 2019 US-based artificial intelligence (AI) company Petuum announced that it entered into a global agreement with Cemex to implement its Industrial AI Autopilot software products for autonomous cement plant operations at plants around the world. This follows process control milestones achieved by Cemex, including running selected plants by AI control in 2018. Global Cement spoke to Petuum to find out more about its work with the cement industry.