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One step ahead of the pack

S ome of the latest emerging cement markets that are on the wish list for Italcementi, CRH, Cemex and Cimpor include not only the pull of large cement consuming nations such as China and India...
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New Orders Oct

128 ICR OCTOBER 2009 ABB Switzerland Ltd announced that it has won an order from CRH to deliver electrical and automation equipment for Podilsky Cement's new production line No 7. The order wa...
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My Home improvements

MHIL operates a cement plant at Mellacheruvu, 200km east of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh (AP) and a cement grinding plant at Visakhapatnam (Vizag) also in AP. My Home Industries was founded in 1996 ...
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Jura Cement’s hat-trick

PROCESS CONTROLIn 1882 Friedrich Rudolf Zurlinden launched the company Zurlinden & Co and built a cement plant comprising five shaft kilns in the city of Aarau. Due to rising cement consumption in ...
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Issues for Italy and Europe

INTERNATIONAL REPORT NOVEMBER 2006 ICR 79 W e start with a reminder of the familiar ?shape? of the cement world, and Europe?s place within it, by volumes, but then move on to a more useful p...
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IFC Seminar washington

Emerging markets have been the main focus in recent years. More than four fifths of the 16 per cent of global capacity (excluding China) that changed hands over the last two years was in emerging m...
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Grinding out low costs

GRINDING MEDIA T oday, consumers? demands for the operational properties of grinding media keep growing, which directly influences the quality and the cost price of cement, the efficiency facto...
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Global plant construction

INTERNATIONAL REPORT IGlobal plant construction ICR goes around the world to see where the latest cement plant projects are being constructed. Some of the major projects include a new 4500tpd clin...
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European markets

INTERNATIONAL CEMENT REVIEW / JUNE 2001 2021INTERNATIONAL CEMENT REVIEW / JUNE 2001 INTERNATIONAL REPORT The degree of concentration in the European cement industry varies considerably from country...
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CRH electricity audits

BENCHMARKINGIn late 2007 one such working group was tasked with looking into electricity consumption on the group cement factories and the means to reduce that consumption in light of escalatin...
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