Welcome to the October 2015 issue of Global Cement Magazine - the world’s most widely-read cement magazine.

Wikov Gear describes a project to replace a ball mill drive for OAO Spassk-Cement, the largest project that it has ever undertaken.

Here Chris Hansford, Managing Director at Hansford Sensors, explains how vibration monitoring can help to ensure that production is free of costly unscheduled downtime.

The frequency of fires in waste or alternative fuel production plants cannot be denied, with the industry’s headlines seemingly scattered with news of one devastating blaze after another.

Mississippi Lime has developed a high reactivity hydrated lime that allows cement plants to inject the hydrate as a dry sorbent (dry sorbent injection - DSI) into the flue gas instead of making a hydrate slurry and feeding to the spray tower as a liquid.