American company Superior Industries, Inc., which manufactures ground-breaking, bulk material process and handling equipment, has reached an agreement to purchase the assets of FLSmidth’s crusher manufacturing plant in Illinois, USA. The facilities include a 10-year-old, 70 000 ft2 plant with 30 employees. Superior Industries plans to use the facility as a US manufacturing centre for cone crushing equipment.
This is the second major acquisition for the company this year, following the purchase of Clemro Western, Ltd in Alberta, Canada, which manufactures a line of cone and jaw crushers.
WCT2020 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.
