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Get a behind-the-scenes look at a live kiln ring replacement. This fantastic footage from Vietnam offers an insight into the communication and expertise required to coordinate a complex state-of-the-art project. The actual installation only took 11 days – completed 2 days ahead of schedule – and you can watch the successful process in a couple of minutes.

VENTOMATIC® packing line for cement with capacity of 2400 bags per hour - 50 kg bags . Lear more about our products: GIROMAT® Rotary packers INFILROT® Bag Applicators

Your network of conveying pipes can take all forms, so we’ve ensured our Two-Way Diverter Valves are flexible to your application. They can be installed horizontally or vertically. The branch pipe can be mounted on the right or left, depending on the pipeline routing. And they are available for all commonly used nominal widths, so they can be installed in almost all pipeline systems.

Engineered to solve most feed problems, our V-Series feeder handles dry, fine powder or granular product efficiently in both vacuum or pressure conveying systems and dilute phase and dense phase systems.

We believe Reliability Centred Maintenance is an essential tool for an industry determined to increase sustainability. As cement plant operators come to understand the connection between equipment reliability and environmental impact, we expect more and more plants to undertake their own RCM implementation program.

In recent decades, the cement industry has made great strides towards reducing its carbon emissions. But while the utilisation of alternative fuels is increasing and new technologies are driving efficiency in the cement manufacturing process, a sticking point remains: The calcination of limestone is the industry’s largest source of emissions. To address this, cement manufacturers must reduce the quantity of clinker in the mix and replace it with supplementary cementitious materials, or SCMs.

The PFISTER® DRW rotor weighfeeder is your solution for dosing pulverised fuel. The proactive control ProsCon® ensures reliable and accurate dosing

Yanbu Cement and Fuller have proven that two production lines running on PLCs from different vendors and older I/O’s can be upgraded and controlled from one common control platform. This increases productivity and knowledge sharing between operators.

The innovation of CARICATECH™ automatic truck loader is the pick-up of bag layers by a fork with special roller way maintaining the traditional loading from the top.

Setup and control the sample process of the RoboLab to the perfect fit for your operation. With a few examples the functionalities of the active sample tab in Workplace are illustrated.

Monitor the QCX operation and analyse historical issues. Current and historical alarms of the system documents the issues in your QCX system. Adapting the process accordingly and swiftly dealing with errors will increase performance of your QCX system.

Use the QCX Lab Editor to edit sample points, material types, data items, formulas, and units to get the correct mapping of samples and analyses in your laboratory. This is used in both manual as well as automatic laboratories. Formulas can be defined/changed to match the need for your laboratory.

KPIs for your RoboLab and AutoSampling enables historical insight into the performance of the machines. Tracking statistics of warnings, failures, throughput, performance, quality, and more provides the insight you need for maintaining operations at a high level. Dividing the KPIs into performance of each individual machine allows an in depth understanding of the machines stoppages and active operation time in your setup. Especially the top-20 list of alarms for each machine should help understanding where to put focus in order to eliminate stops in the automatic system.

Create the sample preparation and analysis for your RoboLab by simple drag and drop functions for easy and customizable recipe setup. Matrices for simple overviews of the process, recipes and programs in your RoboLab enables you to always be in control of the configurations in your RoboLab.

Create different types of reports for sample analysis as single samples or monthly reports with daily averages, standard deviations etc. Create printouts or export the results to your preferred format.

Track and analyse the sample results to investigate the changes in your process. Alter old samples to re-analyze, reject or delete because of invalid results.

Real time sample results in trend and list format. The view is adaptable to your need for live trending and reporting of individual process samples.

Create sample analysis trends for your sample results in this highly customizable view. Add labels, adjust view, timeframe, axis, measured values, and much more to investigate specific developments in the sample analysis the way you prefer. If plant signals of feed rates, temperatures, pressure etc. are stored in QCX they can be combined with the sample analysis trends. This way deeper analysis of plant operation and quality can be performed.

When you have the need for several mechanical upgrades across a few of your plants, how do you manage the workload? Few cement manufacturers these days have the resources required to carry out the work themselves. So, do you divvy it up, giving the jobs, to whoever can give you the best price, or do you partner with a supplier you can rely on to carry the load and let you focus on the efficiency of your operations?

Due to high alternative fuel (AF) use at Schwenk Zement KG’s Mergelstetten plant, a solid fuel feed system that could cope with highly variable feed rates was needed. The plant had been using two Pfister weighfeeders to achieve the required flexibility but recently upgraded one of these with FEEDflex. Now the plant gets the same performance with only one weighfeeder.

PFISTER® SLF is a reliable linear system for continuous gravimetric dosing of fine, course or sticky bulk materials. The patented integrated control PFISTER SDD-Control ensures easy operation.

The PFISTER FRW rotor weighfeeder is designed for feeding fine-grained and powdered bulk materials. High accuracy and reliability with Pfister ProsCon® control.

PFISTER® TRW-K rotor weighfeeder is designed to accurate dose crushed coal. With ProCon® prospective control we assure high accuracy and efficiency.

With PFISTER® TRW rotor weighfeeder it is possible to meter coarse and hot bulk materials with precision and consistency

With PFISTER® TRW-S/D you can introduce alternative fuels or biomass in your plant .

A Jetflex® burner upgrade at Salt River Materials Group’s (SRMG) Clarkdale plant in Arizona, USA, delivers the benefits of a new kiln burner. This ‘out-of-the-box’ solution results in a stronger, better flame, and a more consistent kiln operation and clinker quality. Previously published in ICR, May 2019.

Fuller's OK™ Mill use 30-50% less energy than ball mill systems, and a simple layout and fewer machines in the mill circuit ensure high run factors and low maintenance costs.

Just as we are now all convinced that digitalization is the next big thing in the cement industry, it turns out a few young engineers already pioneered software to optimise cement production back in 1969.