Manufacturing Technology

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Ensuring IT security

Ensuring IT security Premium

The role of security is becoming increasingly important for companies looking to gain control over their IT landscape. By identifying vulnerabilities in existing technical archi...

Finding failure

Finding failure

Roller presses are a popular choice for raw, pre-clinker or finish grinding. Online condition monitoring of its components can help detect early equipment failure and reduce dow...

Establishing a Latin fan base

Establishing a Latin fan base Premium

Latin America is a key market for the Boldrocchi Group. Recent projects include the supply of a range of fans for the Cementos Fortaleza plant in Tula, Mexico, and for the Oruro...

Fabric filtration comes of age

Fabric filtration comes of age Premium

Fabric filtration is increasingly seen as the best-available technology to help producers meet their goals, and with good reason. FLSmidth has introduced two important innovatio...

Early strength development

Early strength development Premium

This month Arthur Harrisson discusses early strength development in concrete, which is affected by many variables in practice. In the two-stage process, which includes a setting...

Beneficiation of landfilled  and ponded fly ash

Beneficiation of landfilled and ponded fly ash Premium

With interest in the recovery and beneficiation of landfilled ash growing, ST Equipment and Technologies (STET) explains how its unique tribo-electrostatic belt separation syste...

Improved automation

Improved automation Premium

The implementation of the IgnitionTM automation tool by LafargeHolcim’s Trbovlje cement plant in Slovenia has empowered the works with its simplicity and versatility, providing ...

Powering up

Powering up Premium

Waste heat recovery (WHR) power generation can add a valuable source of power to a cement plant. However, this requires the selection of the most suitable thermodynamic system f...

Advanced kiln and cooler control

Advanced kiln and cooler control Premium

Practices such as over-burning clinker, the introduction of alternative fuels and ensuring cooler efficiency and reliability require reliable and consistent process control, as ...

From Superman to lasers

From Superman to lasers Premium

Non-contact level sensors provide many benefits to the cement producer. These level measurement devices use 3D scanners, laser or radar technologies to ensure accurate monitorin...