Articles on the cement industry from Global Cement

The LafargeHolcim cement plant in Ste Genevieve County, Missouri, US, boasts one of the largest single cement production lines in the world, with a capacity of approximately 12,000t/day. Its excellent limestone reserves and location directly on the Mississippi River enable it to produce vast quantities of cement at low cost for distribution over the majority of the eastern United States. Global Cement recently spoke to the plant’s manager John Goetz about this mega-plant ahead of the visit by delegates of the 61st IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference on 2 May 2019...

Global Cement recently spoke to the Chairman of the Executive Board of the German vertical roller mill supplier Gebr. Pfeiffer about the company’s corporate culture, current cement grinding trends and future trajectories...

The ‘good old days’ where you could build pre-blending piles by mixing X trucks of ‘grey rock,’ Y trucks of ‘yellow stone’ and Z trucks of ‘brown stuff,’ are long gone, due to the increasing complexity of the deposits available for cement manufacturing, more stringent restrictions on emissions and the use of alternative fuels. In 2019, modern quarry managers have to operate according to these new limitations. A paradigm shift with respect to quarry management and planning is well overdue...

This regional report looks at eight contiguous EU Member States that were formerly part of the Eastern Bloc: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. The three Baltic EU states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will be covered separately in a future issue.

Global Cement recently caught up with Cembureau’s Chief Executive Koen Coppenholle to discuss the association’s 5C Approach to mitigating CO₂ emissions and wider trends in cement sector sustainability...