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Dr Clark considers the value of measuring and comparing the costs of making cement as the first step to optimising, ie minimising, those outlays as he discusses cost benchmarkin...
Raw Materials
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Stackers and reclaimers play a large part in achieving the reliability that helps deliver a constant supply of homogenised raw materials to the mills. The storage solution must ...
India: government to relax mining lease transfer rules
The government of India plans to enact a law that will allow companies that received mining licences without having gone through the auction process to transfer these leases, lo...
Jaypee gets green nod to expand limestone mining in Andhra Pradesh
Jaypee Cement has received the green approval for expansion of limestone mining capacity from 3.47Mta to 6Mta in Andhra Pradesh, entailing an investment of INR950m (US14.3m). Th...
UltraTech Chhattisgarh mine plan hits hurdle
The government of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh has cancelled a no objection certificate (NoC) to UltraTech Cement for a limestone mine in Raipur district. The state ...
Gebr Pfeiffer wins another VRM order for Iraqi market
Sinoma (Suzhou) Construction Co has placed an order with Gebr Pfeiffer SE for the supply of an MPS 5000 B to be installed at the Saman cement works in Iraq. The mill featuring a...
Brazil: alternative raw materials usage among 'best in the world'
The proportion of alternative raw materials used in Brazilian cement is one of the best in the world, country's leading cement producer reports, citing domestic construction ind...
Cameroon: first raw materials arrive at Dangote’s Douala plant
Dangote Cement has received the first cargoes of raw materials for its new cement works at Douala, Cameroon. The delivery consists of clinker, gypsum and pozzolan, produced in t...
Ghorahai works halts production
Nepal-based producer Ghorahai Cement Industry (GCI) has halted output at its cement plant in the Dang district as protests by tipper operators disrupt the flow of production. Th...
Sludge dispatched to Ariyalur plants for use as raw material
The Pollution Control Board of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu has dispatched 20,000t of sludge generated by textile units in the SIPCOT Industrial Estate in Perundurai to cement...