Germany: Klaus Eichas of KE Consulting has taken over the role of consultant to KIMA Process Control’s Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia region sales and engineering team. KIMA provides real-time measurement solutions for various applications in the cement industry, including fill level in ball mills.

Germany: Six apprentices from Holcim South Germany’s 1.1Mt/yr integrated Dotternhausern cement plant have completed an assignment of real-world application to their plant, at a training workshop in Albstadt. The Schwarzwälder Zeitung has reported that Holcim South Germany required a means of stirring cement used for event demonstrations. The apprentices’ ‘eyecatching’ solution incorporates a filler neck at the top and an outlet at the bottom, is 100% leak-proof and was built entirely from parts constructed at the Albstadt workshop.

Kenya: Chattan Vyas, general manager of a Rai Group-owned grinding plant in Kenya’s Rift Valley province, has been found dead in bed on the morning of 22 September 2019 under mysterious circumstances. The Standard has reported that the attending pathologist confirmed the cause of death as strangulation, noting also that Vyas had been bound.

Canada: Lafarge Canada has received a US$0.3m fine for failing as an employer to ensure that safety measures and procedures in the workplace were upheld. This follows the 2017 death of an employee who fell from a corroded catwalk at the company’s Beachville quarry.