- Written by Peter Edwards, Global Cement Magazine
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...
- Written by Dr Petr Bláha & Arnaud Pujol, apbp consulting GmbH
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...
- Written by Peter Edwards, Global Cement Magazine
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.
- Written by Robert McCaffrey, Global Cement Magazine
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...
- Written by Olaf Michelswirth, Intercem Engineering
In 2015, the idea was born by the industrial start-up Cem’In’Eu to create a new offering for cement materials that was both better adapted to the needs of local actors and closer to them. A modular cement grinding unit with smaller production capacities was intended to be built in strategic locations that offered good access by road, river and rail. For this purpose, reliable and experienced contract partners had to be found for the realisation of this ambitious project. The grinding unit for the first of seven identical regional grinding plants has now been realised by Cem’In’Eu in partnership with partners that include Intercem Engineering, which was to engineer, deliver and commission the plant’s grinding plant module...
