Special reports

Dr S B Hegde explores the role of calcined clay and discusses mineralogy and chemistry, production technologies, and challenges in achieving optimal pozzolanic properties.

Martyn Whitehead and Suhaila Thien, Fosroc, explore the best practices for cement additive quality control.

Dr. Dmitry Davydov, James D. Greene and Dr. Wei Cai, WACKER, explain how cementitious materials can be protected and improved using oligomeric siloxane based technology.

Thaís Araujo Lemos da Silva, Potito D’Arcangelo and Fengjuan Liu, MAPEI, explain how water reducing additives can help to achieve sustainability and reduce the costs of cement and concrete production.

Dr. Davide Zampini, Cemex, explains the importance of chemical admixtures as a key enabler of sustainability in the construction materials industry.

Cement Association of Canada explores an action plan designed to help decarbonise the cement industry.

As a long-standing partner of the cement and lime industry, AERZEN is fully aware of the various challenges in this sector and supports users with reliable and high-performance blower and compressor solutions. AERZEN’s packages are extremely robust and provide maximal performance with maximum energy efficiency and reduced maintenance requirements, even in demanding production environments.

Aggregate Industries’ new manufacturing facility and import terminal at the Port of Tilbury has reached a significant milestone this week with completion of enabling works.

CCUS is the only affordable and scalable decarbonisation solution, available now, for the cement industry to achieve its net zero targets.

Imran Akram, IA Cement, provides a summary of the Cement 2024 research report, which details expected trends, risks, and trade flows for the cement industry in 2024.

Steve Fair, Haver & Boecker Niagara, gives tips for combining screen media to achieve maximum screening and sizing efficiency.

Ali Hasan R., ThroughPut Inc., outlines three ways cement manufacturers can use artificial intelligence and machine learning to boost output and efficiency.

Jeff Shelton, Logan Shelton, and James Smith, Dracyon, explain the importance of air cannons and how they must be updated to be sufficient for today’s cement industry.

Dr. Klaus Eichas and Christian Helmreich, ROCKTEQ, and Dr. Hubert Baier, WhiteLabel-TandemProjects e.U., explain the importance of drying alternative fuels and their impact on cement production.

Wouter Garot, SILICON, examines the role of bright solution annealing in extending the lifetime of crucial components.