November 2020

November 2020

The November 2020 issue of Global Cement Magazine has a strong sustainability focus, from the use of Graphene in cement to a plant report from Nuh Çimento, Turkey's largest clinker producer, and a facility that has undertaken a number of less common green projects. In between there is discussion of alternative fuel trends, maintenance approaches and explosion protection, plus mill upgrade, conveying and coal grinding case-studies, as well as the latest on the cement sector in the Gulf Cooperation Council.

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Vertical roller mill repair during a pandemic
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 19-10-2020

In June 2020 Welding Alloys UK undertook a project to repair a mill at Hanson Cement’s site in Purfleet, Essex. The work concerned the repair of the grinding table and rollers of a Loesche LM 46 2+2S vertical roller mill, which had become worn after processing over 3.5Mt of granulated blast furnace slag. The project was complicated by restrictions due to Covid-19, but was completed successfully...ahead of schedule.

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Commissioning Germany’s highest bucket elevator
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 19-10-2020

BEUMER Group has successfully delivered, installed and commissioned the highest bucket elevator in Germany at HeidelbergCement AG in Schelklingen, near Ulm.

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Success story: Reduction in specific energy consumption via vertical roller mill modification
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 19-10-2020

JK White Cement Works in Gotan, Rajasthan, has recently completed a series of process improvements to its No. 3 petcoke mill, a Gebr. Pfeiffer vertical roller mill...

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Nuh Çimento: A Turkish delight
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 19-10-2020

Global Cement speaks with Ismail Doğan, Cement Production Manager at Nuh Çimento, about this remarkable plant’s history, process and sustainability initiatives, plus how it fits into the busy Turkish and Mediterranean cement sector...

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Cement in the Gulf Cooperation Council
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 19-10-2020

This article looks at the cement sectors of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations, to coincide with the inaugural Virtual Middle Eastern Cement Conference & Exhibition on 8-9 December 2020...

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