For many cement companies in India, AFR represents an important business opportunity because it reduces fuel costs and CO2 emissions. By dealing safely with wastes that are often difficult to dispose of in any other way, cement manufacturers are able to provide an important service to society.

The Smart Cities Council India successfully organised its first-in-its-series of India-wide multicity smart cities workshops in Solapur on June 2, 2017. Solapur was selected under the Centre’s smart city mission, which witnessed a lineup of world-class solution providers.

According to news reports, UltraTech Cement's Rs 16,189 crore acquisition of the cement business of Jaiprakash Associates may be 'completed soon', according a top executive in the know of the situation.

In the course of its test laboratory expansion, the cable manufacturer and motion plastics specialist igus has set up another 40-foot container to carry out cable tests at extreme temperatures under real conditions.

In the mature market of industrial packaging, cement manufacturers have made the switch to sustainable bags in a bid to enhance protection and improve handleability, increasing all-weather shelf life and curbing messy seepages.

Polypropylene packing, according to Ashwin Moghe, Vice President – Technical Services, UltraTech Cement, is the best suited for cement in India, considering transportation, pilferage and importantly, handling.

Someone said, appearances can be deceiving. Some others say, judge a book not by its cover, but by its contents. All these propositions sound very logical. However, FMCG companies may strongly disagree, invest as they do heavily into packaging designs and strategies as integrated part of their brand offerings.

Cement production in India commenced more than 100 years ago with the setting up of a 1,000 tonne a year plant in Porbandar in Gujarat in 1914. There has been no recorded history of the commodity until World War II, when the industry was brought under controls by deeming it an essential commodity.

A state-of-the-art cement plant has resolved material accumulation issues in its limestone silo by combining high-efficiency cleaning techniques with powerful, strategically-placed air cannons to prevent further build-up.