As far as the Indian cement industry is concerned, it proactively factored in the advancements in technology a decade ago. That's why plants with 10,000 tonne per day capacity continue to operate with the same number of personnel as earlier.

Schenck Process has been known to the industry more as a weighing and feeding equipment supplier all along, but there are a variety of other solutions that we offer.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had mandated affordable housing for all (read slum-residents, lower-income group and middle-class income group beneficiaries, who would be provided subsidised homes and interest subsidies to place homes at reasonable market values) in India as target for achievement between June 2015 and 2022.

Greening of industry is a method to attain sustainable economic growth and promote sustainable economies. It includes policymaking, improved industrial production processes and resource-efficient productivity.

With the introduction of PAT targets for cement sector, most of the cement plants are trying to increase alternative fuels like biomass, industrial waste (hazardous and non-hazardous) in cement kilns.

Govt sanctions around 31 lakh homes under PMAY The government has sanctioned 30.76 lakh houses since the launch of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) to fulfill its ambitious scheme of Housing for All by 2022, according to housing minister Hardeep Singh Puri.

LOESCHE is involved in the new construction of a large cement plant in Egypt with three vertical roller mills. The end customer is the Egyptian Cement for Cement Projects Management S.A.E. The planned new plant is located nearly 500 km south of Cairo in Sohag.

IT has been making radical changes in how we do things, and the cement industry is no exception.

The MultiDrive drive system that has proved successful in practice since 2009 was developed by Gebr. Pfeiffer in conjunction with Siemens/Flender specifically for driving the MVR vertical roller mill (Fig 1).