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Increasing the momentum

Increasing the momentum Premium

A TEC GRECO’s Flexiflame burners facilitate the control of the flame geometry in the kiln. Further burner optimisation has brought the benefits of a reduced NOx generation as we...

Free lime reduction

Free lime reduction Premium

The occurrence of high free lime can result in poor clinker quality and inefficient burning. Chemical variance in the raw materials and changes to the burning conditions can als...

Elevating service life

Elevating service life Premium

The modernisation of Lafarge’s Wössingen plant in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, included improvements on the existing belt bucket elevator to the raw mill. The intralogistics spec...

High-efficiency cement grinding

High-efficiency cement grinding Premium

For more than a quarter of a century the ThyssenKrupp Polysius’ POLYCOM® high-pressure grinding roll (HPGR) has been in successful operation. More than 65 of the presses are wor...

Continuous flue gas monitoring

Continuous flue gas monitoring Premium

Stricter emission legislation has increased the need for continuous emission monitoring. For cement producers, the high-temperature and high-dust environment in the kiln has pre...

Bulk handling the Van Aalst way

Bulk handling the Van Aalst way Premium

Van Aalst Bulk Handling BV (VABH), based in The Netherlands, is globally renowned for its versatile pneumatic shipunloading systems, capable of handling cement capacities of bet...

Zlatna's alternative

Zlatna's alternative Premium

Last year, Titan’s Zlatna Panega plant in Bulgaria successfully started up its new installation for processing alternative fuels and recovering energy to use in its clinker prod...

High accuracy fuel dosing

High accuracy fuel dosing Premium

Di Matteo has developed a tubular weigher specifically designed to dose difficult to handle secondary fuels with continuous flow rates. The WeighTUBE® has many benefits compared...

Breaking ground on new plants

Breaking ground on new plants Premium

Cement plant construction has begun to ease off in former cement production hotspots such as Central Europe and North America but new contracts are forging ahead in the Crimea, ...

A victim of success

A victim of success Premium

Lafarge Canada’s paper on CO2 emissions reductions in the cement sector earned the company its latest accolade, winning the first prize at the 2012 IEEE-IAS/PCA meeting in San A...