International Cement Review magazine archive
The January 2014 issue surveys newly completed cement plants and the global market outlook for the year ahead. It examines strategy in the Middle East and North Africa, carbon capture, alternative-fuel characteristics and handling, bag-filter cleaning and vertical milling, alongside reports on emerging markets and industry events.
In this issue
Explore the January 2014 issue of International Cement Review, the leading magazine for the global cement industry. Browse cement industry news, expert market analysis, regional reports, plant projects and technical articles covering cement production, equipment, processes and technology.
World news
South American operations drive Cimpor’s first nine months, PPC’s full-year results are boosted by South Africa and Zimbabwe, Buzzi Unicem announces major upgrade of its Maryneal plant in Texas and Lucky Cement progresses with overseas expansion drive.
Green light factories
by ICR Research ICR searches the globe to locate the newest cement plants to be completed. Highlights include Vicat Sagar's Gulbarga plant and NORM LLC's Qizildas works, while new factory building has been prevalent elsewhere too.
Global cement 2014 outlook
by Yuri Serov, Morgan Stanley, UK Draw a line under 2013, the New Year is upon us and Yuri Serov of Morgan Stanley suggests that while overall regional forecasts remain a little subdued, better growth is forecast for end markets in 2014.
Building a MENA strategy
by ASEC (Egypt) & ICR Research ICR talks to ASEC chairman and CEO Giorgio Bodo, Tamer Yacout, director of ASEC’s business development, and Ghada Hammouda, head of corporate communications and CMO of Citadel Capital (Egypt).
Reducing the carbon footprint
by Suez Cement, Egypt Suez Cement has made a committment to alternative fuel usage at its Kattameya cement plant to keep one step ahead of the fuel supply problems in Egypt and to improve sustainable production.
Integrated carbon capture
by M Gimenez, Lafarge IPC, and M Hemati, University of Toulose, France A new project to devise an integrated carbon capture system for a cement plant could be a very cost-effective way of reducing CO2 emissions.
Getting to the source
by Cemex México A mobile solid-waste sorting machine is helping Cemex’s Mexican cement plants to make the most of co-processing opportunities, while also enabling the safe disposal of waste.
Understanding dependency
by Dr Michael Clark, UK Dr Clark offers a Technical Forum with a difference. This month he draws up the imaginary landscape of Ruritania where building a new cement plant may just take a bit longer than desired.
Alternative fuel characteristics
by Arthur Harrisson, UK Arthur Harrisson takes a detailed look at the presence of microstructures in clinker produced with alternative fuel usage. He considers whether such structures have a detrimental affect on product quality.
The fuel shop of the future
by J Kilne & C Kline, Kline Consulting, USA Kline Consulting investigates alternative fuel strategies and their impact on the cement plant of the future by assessing how the choice of secondary fuel will affect a company’s business models.
Better cleaning at length
by M Giavazzi & O Mantovani, Boldrocchi Srl, Italy Boldrocchi is using Computational Fluid Dynamic analysis with a physical test model of a baghouse to evaluate the most efficient cleaning systems for large filter bags, now a popular choice for dust control.
Risk-based AF approach
by B McGrath, ResourceCo, Australia ResourceCo identify risks associated with alternative fuel usage and how to mitigate them. Tyre-derived fuel is used as an example to show the importance of raw mix preparation, sulphur cycles and lower NOx emissions.
The PROPER approach?
by V Aloysius, Geocycle, Indonesia Geocycle investigates how effective Indonesia’s Pollution Control, Evaluation and Rating (PROPER) programme is in terms of incentivising the use of waste and enabling the cement industry to benefit from co-processing.
Advanced vertical milling
Gebr Pfeiffer shares vertical roller mill operating experiences in Brazil, India and Tunisia.
Effective, efficient conversion
BoldEco Environment examine the difficulties of a successful electrostatic precipitator-to-baghouse conversion.
AUCBM Jordan 2013
by ICR Research The 18th Arab International Cement Conference and Exhibition was held 11-13 November in Jordan. ICR attended the event that saw a multitude of presentations on all aspects of cement production in the Middle East.
A new frontier market
by S Naing, Kanbawza Industries, Myanmar & ICR Research Myanmar is attracting foreign investment in a number of sectors as democracy takes hold with opportunities for the cement industry as well.
New Orders
by ICR Research New orders are awarded by Lafarge Republic (Philippines), Volskcement OJSC (Russia), Birla Corp (India), Southern Province (Saudi Arabia), QNCC (Qatar) and Buckeridge Group (East Timor).