Over 130 participants gathered for the “Cement Chemistry” conference at the VDZ (German Cement Works Association) in Düsseldorf on 01.04.2009 to exchange ideas on current cement chemistry problems....
On 27th March 2009 the Mines and Quarries Employers’ Liability Insurance Association awarded the winners of the current sponsorship prizes Work-Safety-Health at the gallery of the Hanover Herrenhäuser...
Lime plays an important role in environmental protection. Not only due to its properties but also due to its natural occurrence, it is suitable and accepted for universal application in the...
About 750 participants accepted the invitation of the Em- ployers’ Association of the Cement and Building Materials Industry (azb) and came to Beckum on 26.01.2009. During the “Höxberg Talks” (Fig. 2)...
The German cement industry considers the first and second economic stimulus packages of the Federal Government to be appropriate approaches to mitigate the consequences of the financial and economic...
On 23.04.2009, the official start-up of the first ever Roto Classic® Packer [1–2] from Haver & Boecker took place at the Phoenix Cement Works Krogbeumker GmbH & Co. KG in Beckum/Germany (Fig. 1)....
Extension and upgrading measures for the wet production of gypsum wallboards with an investment volume of approximately 3 million € have been carried out from July 2007 to August 2009 at works no. 2...
1 Introduction Online measuring methods are indispensable for process control in cement factories. However, while measurements of temperatures, pressures, filling levels, flow rates, motor powers and...
1 The present situation in the lime industry The lime industry in China (Figs. 1–3) consists of three sectors. The first sector comprises the metallurgy industry (steel and iron industry). They...
1 Introduction Their comparatively robust technology combined with high efficiency means that coke-fired lime shaft kilns are used widely throughout the world, including in the soda and sugar...
