Eurocement Group’s Voronezh plant has produced 1 million t of cement so far this year, more than 100 000 t more than in the same period last year.
The Voronezh cement plant uses the dry process and first entered operation in December 2012. The plant is one of the most environmentally friendly and technically advanced in Russia, operating fully automated industrial laboratories and carrying out full quality control at all stages of production.
The plant is located 200 km south of Voronezh, which is convenient for road and rail transport. The packing and loading facilities are also automated, meaning that shipments go out quicker and operate 24 hours a day.
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World Cement Editor, David Bizley, sat down with Michael Tay, Advanced Analytics Product Manager at Rockwell Automation to discuss his recent article in World Cement.
Entitled ‘Smooth Sailing’, this article explains how machine learning can help save energy, reduce downtime and predict equipment failures, thus enabling the smooth running of cement plant operations.
Eurocement’s Voronezh plant will use Testing GmbH equipment in its concrete laboratory, enabling it to provide technical support to customers with regards to optimising concrete mixes.
In January – October 2014, Eurocement’s Mikhailovcement shipped its customers 1.356 million t of cement, an 18.1% increase compared to the same period in 2013.
