Jacques Bourgon, currently Head of OH&S for the Holcim Group, Senior Advisor to the CEO, and member of the senior management, has decided to resign and pursue other challenges outside the company. He will be leaving Holcim on 31 December 2014.
Holcim thanked Jacques Bourgon for the valuable contributions he has made to Holcim’s success in various roles during his 24 years with the company.
Optimisation 2020 provides a unique online forum for cement industry professionals to hear first-hand from experts through a series of exclusive presentations from cement producers and industry experts.
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.
Dirk Schmidt and Eugen Geibel, KIMA Process Control, discuss how the methods of High-Level Control (HLC) have been used in the cement industry in the early 2000s and control ever more complex closed-loop-controlled processes where standard controllers fail.
Rather than combining their operations in Spain as originally announced, Cemex will acquire Holcim’s Gador cement plant and Yeles grinding facility and Holcim will retain its remaining assets in the country.
Holcim has announced that it has not yet received the final installment of compensation from Corporación Socialista del Cemento S.A. relating to the nationalisation of Holcim Venezuela in 2008.
