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Canada: Representatives of US and Canadian cement industry unions have met in Toronto. International Brotherhood of Teamsters from the US and Canada, the United Steelworkers from Canada and the US, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and the Fédération de l’Industrie Manufacturière from Canada attended the third meeting of the North America Cement Network, according to the IndustriAll Global Union. The participants exchanged ideas about over collective bargaining issues, the current situation in the cement industry and the latest developments in deals such as the CRH purchase of Ash Grove.

Jordan: The Arab Union for Cement and Building Materials (AUCBM) has opened a regional office in Amman. The office will be managed by Khaled Tarawneh, the General Manager of Arab Company for White Cement Industry and an AUCBM board member. The office is intended to support member companies of the AUCBM towards training workers at cement plants and supporting the AUCBM with its events.

Germany: The 14th REFRA-Kolloquium will take place on 31 May to 3 June 2016, at the Estrel Hotel & Convention Centre in Berlin. Industry experts and specialists will gather for a series of presentations on technical developments in the cement and refractory industries. The event will also include a panel discussion and a related exhibition.

The REFRA-Kolloquium events are organised by Refratechnik, a manufacturer of refractory materials for the cement industry. In 2012 almost 800 participants from 70 countries attended the REFRA-Kolloquium.

Czech Republic: The Global CemFuels Awards 2016 has announced winners in six categories. The Suez Environnement solid recovered fuel facility at Malpas Farm, Rugby, which supplies the Cemex Rugby cement plant, won Outstanding Alternative Fuels (AF) project. LafargeHolcim won AF-user company of the year. N+P, Netherlands received the award for AF-supplier company of the year for the second consecutive year. Linder-Recyclingtech won the award for innovative technology for AF use. Frederico Contente, Masias Recycling was awarded project manager of the year. Jan Theulen, HeidelbergCement was awarded CemFuels Personality of the Year.

The Global CemFuels Awards 2016 took place as part of the Global CemFuels Conference and Exhibition. The awards are nominated and voted for across the alternative fuels industry. The specialised annual alternative fuels conference for the cement and lime industries took place on 22 – 23 February 2016 in Prague.

Featured image: Jan Theulen, HeidelbergCement (right) and Robert McCaffrey, Global Cement (left)

UK: The Materials Handling Engineers Association has announced that the BULKEX conference will be held on 5 – 6 October 2016 in Harrogate, UK. The event is aimed at professionals, organisations and academics in the bulk materials industry.

US: Registration has opened for the 2014 IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference to be held in Washington, DC from 13 - 17 April 2014. The conference theme will be 'Two Great Ideas".

For the 2014 conference the organisers have introduced training for industry 'junior' professionals. The conference will also feature a tour of the Martinsburg Cement Plant owned by Essroc.

The Global CemPower conference took place last week in London, attracting 103 delegates from 25 countries. The conference looked at waste heat recovery options in the global cement industry. 'Back-of-the-envelope' calculations suggest that the value of the waste heat recovery units that could be installed in the global cement industry in the next ten years might total US$50bn - well worth thinking about.

Robert McCaffrey, the conference convenor, gave a listing at the event of the seven megatrends that will shape the future of the global cement industry, including demographic trends (aging of both developing and developed nations), urbanisation (with 70-75% of humanity due to live in cities by 2050), the growth of new country superpowers, the possibility of further climate change, paradigm shifts in the cement industry business model, ever-increasing energy costs and the influence of Rumsfeldian known-unknowns and unknown-unknowns.

Whatever else happens in the next 50 years, increased energy costs and energy efficiency will be the order of the day. In the global cement industry, waste heat recovery is here to stay.

Presentations, videos and a full review of the Global CemPower conference are available here, www.globalcement.com/conferences/global-cempower/introduction.