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DG Khan: Prepared for the future

Written by Christian Pickhan & Wolfram Zschiesche, Vecoplan FuelTrack GmbH
19 September 2013

The DG Khan cement plant at Chakwal, Pakistan.

DG Khan's cement plant at Chakwal, Pakistan, is one of the largest cement plants in Asia. With the support of Vecoplan FuelTrack it is successfully using alternative fuels.

Cement demand in Pakistan is strongly correlated with gross domestic product (GDP). For a few years, however, the growth rate of the GDP has stagnated in the south Asian republic. The rising cost of fuels such as oil, diesel and coal on the international markets (now and in the future) represents a serious threat to the economy. It is therefore logical for Pakistani cement manufacturers to substitute their primary fuels with alternative fuels to a very high proportion in the medium term. DG Khan is a pioneer in this field in the Pakistani cement market.

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China: First in cement

Written by Peter Edwards, Global Cement Magazine
23 July 2013

The Great Wall of China is one of the country’s most famous and oldest constructions. Today the world’s largest cement industry supports new building projects across this massive country.

The People's Republic of China is the world's most populous country and the second-largest economy after the USA.1 It is also a dominant industrial power and has the largest cement industry in the world,2 although its exact size is up for debate. However large, the country's massive cement capacity has helped fuel massive government-led infrastructure and settlement projects. China is also one of the largest global cement exporters.3

The land that constitutes the modern People's Republic of China has a rich history as a leading region of economic, political, social and technological development. Today it is both the world's largest Communist state and the most populous country in the world, re-formed by the Communist Party leader Chairman Mao Zedong after the Second World War.

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Land of the rising excavators: Caterpillar Asia Pacific Quarry Days Report

Written by David Perilli, Global Cement Magazine
19 July 2013

773 G series off-highway truck at the Chichibu Demonstration Centre.

The Caterpillar Asia Pacific Quarry Days, held on 3 – 7 June 2013 in Japan, assembled delegates from across the Asia Pacific area to discuss Caterpillar products, technology and services. Broken into two sessions for low-regulated and high-regulated countries in the Asia-Pacific and Australasia region, the event took its guests from downtown Tokyo to the quarry and aggregate machinery manufacturer's Chichibu Demonstration Centre, the largest training centre for construction machinery in Asia. Global Cement attended at the kind invitation of Caterpillar.

Quarry Days covered a wide range of Caterpillar's products and services so this article will concentrate on those with a direct application for the cement industry. Both sessions of the event comprised a day of classroom sessions in Tokyo, followed by a day 'in the iron' (to use Caterpillar speak) at the Chichibu

Demonstration Centre. Here guests could see and clamber over the latest models of hydraulic excavators, hammers, large wheel-loaders, off-highway trucks and more. Participants were even able to take their prospective purchases for test-drives around the facility.

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Hope - The UK’s newest cement producer

Written by Peter Edwards, Global Cement Magazine
20 June 2013

Hope Construction Materials presents a newly-liveried Feldbinder silo truck next to its truck distribution silos.

Hope Construction Materials is a new cement and building materials producer in the UK with assets that include the largest cement plant in the UK at Hope. Although the cement plant itself is over 80 years old, the company is looking towards the future. Global Cement recently visited the plant and met key figures at this ambitious new company...

Hope Construction Materials was launched as a new company on 7 January 2013. It is owned by Mittal Investments and holds the majority of the assets sold by Lafarge Tarmac as a condition of the UK joint venture between Tarmac and Lafarge UK.

The company's flagship facility is the Hope cement plant in Hope, Derbyshire, which has been in operation since 1929. Under the stewardship of Blue Circle it saw a major overhaul in the 1970s. After Blue Circle was acquired by Lafarge in 2001 the plant passed over to the French multinational, which invested heavily in the 2000s.

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Cement in the UK in 2012 - 2013

Written by Edwin Trout, Cement Industry Suppliers’ Forum
19 June 2013

Traditionally slow to evolve, the London skyline has seen more rapid change in the 21st Century.

2012 and the opening months of 2013 saw the UK celebrate the London 2012 Olympic Games and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. However, it also saw the country dealing with a faltering economy, cost reduction and job losses, the failure of some cement companies and the birth of two new ones. New fuels, packing plants, trials of new cements, improved water management, a railway extension, crises in the carbon market and the construction of two Climafuel plants for Cemex have also hit the headlines. Let's have a look in more detail...

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