Applications will open tomorrow for admission to Cementos Argos’s 2019 scholarship programme, which has promoted higher education in Colombia for the past four years and benefited 144 students so far.
The students are drawn from the departments of Antioquia, Atlántico, Bolívar, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Sucre, Tolima and Valle del Cauca.
Total investment in the four years of the programme has been over 3880 million pesos (approximately US$1.3 million).
The retention rate is 94%, much higher than other programmes of access to higher education.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldcement.com/the-americas/09082018/cementos-argos-promotes-higher-education-in-colombia/
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.
The group moved into its new premises at the beginning of September. The move to the new building has been accompanied by a new VDZ brand identity which can be seen for example on the company’s website or various print media.
