Holcim breaks ground on Hagerstown modernisation project
A ceremony took place on 21 July to mark the start of a 2-year, US$95 million modernisation project at Holcim’s Hagerstown cement plant.
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A ceremony took place on 21 July to mark the start of a 2-year, US$95 million modernisation project at Holcim’s Hagerstown cement plant.
Key figures in the UK waste industry met last week to discuss the issue of waste and recycling.
ContiTech has developed electronic conveyor belt warning and inspection systems to detect damage at an early stage and to determine the state of conveyor belts.
In Qatar, a decline in cement demand during Ramadan has driven domestic manufacturers to begin conducting plant maintenance work.
CDE Global has expanded its product range with the R2500, which has the capacity to process more than 500 tph of material.
Loesche’s LM 63.3+3 mill attained a new record product rate of 255 tph of blastfurnace slag meal after only a short period of operation in Taiyuan, northern China.
Munson Machinery is expanding its headquarters in Utica, New York, increasing the size of its test lab facility and expanding the site’s assembly area.
International Union for Conservation of Nature, in collaboration with CEMBUREAU and other partners, has developed the ‘Integrated Biodiversity Management System’ as a guide for cement and aggregates companies.
Siam Cement (Lampang) and three Siam City Cement plants have achieved Green Industry Level 5: Green Network status, marking them as actively achieving and promoting environmentally friendly practices.
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria has given cement producers 60 days to make the necessary changes to bags, indicating full product information – including, for the first time, batch numbers.
Dust Control Technology is co-sponsoring a team of students dedicated to building working robots, as part of the FIRST® Robotics Competitions.
Italcementi’s self-cleaning cement was a finalist in the ‘industry’ category and took home second place in the Popular Prize, voted for by the public, at the European Inventor Awards 2014.