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A chemical tour of the kiln

Raw meal needs to pass through four distinct stages before clinker making is complete. These are drying, calcinin...

A brucite future?

TECHNICAL FORUM T here can?t be any regular readers of the Technical Forum who don?t know that cement manufacture ...

A better style of cooler?

The task in hand for HolcimSiggenthal was to replace its existing 32-year-old, two-grate Fuller Constantin clinker c...

A balance for the future

ICR has recently published a spate of articles following the introduction of the European Union Emissions Trading Sc...

'Going green’ – it’s automatic

PROCESS CONTROL T he following case studies will illustrate how advances in automation have created value for cem...

ACC in coal venture as input costs rise

ACC Ltd is developing coal blocks in joint ventures with state governments to secure raw materials for its plants,

Prism plans cement plant in Andhra Pradesh, India

The Andhra Pradesh government in a recent clearance move has allotted 1000 acres of land to Prism Cement in

Jidong Cement gets VAT refund, China

Tangshan Jidong Cement Co Ltd, a cement producer based in Hebei Province, said yesterday that it and its

Vietnam: 2012 outlook remains cloudy

By the end of 2010, Vietnam Cement Association had predicted that in 2011, there would be about 9Mt of

Calera raises US$10.6m in venture capital

Calera, a developer of technology that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) into green building materials, has raised US$10....

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