Cement news updates

The conference was designed to give attendees an insight into emerging trends and technologies.

The company have investigated and reviewed the Vevox app, and are now implementing the tool across the business.

World Cement spoke to LafargeHolcim about the Group’s approach to health and safety management.

The company has reported a marginal improvement in its operating performance for the quarter ended 30 September 2019, compared to the same quarter of the previous year.

The company has plans to increase production by 25% next year; boosting supply in the wake of healthy domestic demand.

According to Reuters, Nigerian industrial conglomerate, Dangote Group, has signed deals to make phosphate into fertiliser and build a cement factory in Togo, the small West African country.

As the first set of apprentices graduate from the Tarmac education programme, the company has enrolled a further 45 to complete the qualification in mobile and static operations.

The new models are said to improve operator comfort, attachment visibility and machine performance.

The latest survey also revealed a sharp drop in new work, although the rate of contraction was the slowest for three months.

BEUMER exhibition and presentation to demonstrate the successful implementation of an alternative fuel handling system at the Retznei Cement plant.

It is hoped that The Danfoss Solution will help prevent the limestone crusher in the Sagrex quarry, Belgium, from experiencing unplanned shutdowns.

Portable TERRA™ II and Benchtop BTX™ III mobile XRD analyzers both feature new SwiftMin® software, which provides automated mineral/phase ID and quantification in real time directly on the analyzer.

The nine month results indicate that financial performance has improved for TITAN Group in the third quarter of 2019.

Outlook for 2019 confirmed – moderate increase in revenue, result, and profit for the financial year.

As part of their aim to reduce emissions across the global cement and mining industries, FLSmidth has launched new sustainability programme, MissionZero.

FLSmidth & Co. A/S is hosting its Capital Markets Day under the theme ’Driving sustainable productivity' at its headquarters in Valby, Denmark.

Gebr. Pfeiffer has been awarded a contract for the supply and construction of a complete granulated blast-furnace slag (GBFS) grinding plant with a Gebr. Pfeiffer mill type MVR 2500 C-4, in Oxelösund, Sweden.

Solidia Technologies® and Xpansiv CBL Holding Group (XCHG) are developing a new asset class of tradable digital products that provide proof of superior environmental provenance.

New Simotics HV M slipring motors are said to increase the lifetime of cement plants.

The company has launched updated versions of its M-Series S450, S510 and S530 models.

In March 2019, the machinery pool of Petitjean, a granite excavation company based in Eastern France's Vosges mountain range, was augmented by two Liebherr crawler excavators.

The global alternative fuels community met in Duisburg, Germany, on 23 – 25 September to discuss the building materials industries’ potential for CO2 reduction.

The EBC expands on Sweet’s current offering of conveyors which includes Flite-Veyor Flat Bottom Drag Conveyors, Flite-Veyor Round Bottom Conveyors, Formed Channel Belt Conveyors, and Quick-Key Spool Belt Conveyors.

The Chinese cement sector has reported steady growth in the first three quarters of 2019.