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Oyak releases its 2021 Integrated Report

15 June 2022, Published under Cement News

OYAK Cement has published its 2021 Integrated Report in which it announces its plans to be a "game-changer" in the cement industry by focussing on sustainability and digitalisation. The company will continue its activities in terms of improving its energy efficiency and pursue a sustainability strategy that will contribute to achieving Turkey's 2050 net zero target. Its OYAK Cement 4.0 Project, which was developed mainly in-house, includes many firsts for Turkey as well as the global ce...

HeidelbergCement parters Giatec Scientific with a minority investment

11 May 2022, Published under Cement News

HeidelbergCement continues to advance its digital transformation by acquiring a strategic minority stake in Canada-based technology company Giatec Scientific through a low single-digit million euro investment. Together with its new partner, HeidelbergCement will drive the development and adoption of industry-leading sensor technology and AI-driven software with the clear target to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete and optimise processes for its ready-mixed concrete customers. Giat...

Taking the magic out of machine learning

20 April 2022, Published under Cement News

Artificial intelligence (AI) and its subcomponent machine learning (ML) are almost everywhere in industrial processes, and cement manufacturing is no exception. 1,2 Despite the common use of these terms, how a model is built and implemented remains a mystery to many. Holcim Innovation Center demystifies the process by stepping through a machine learning project.  By Louise Harding and Xavier Cieren, Holcim Innovation Center, France. Figure 1: machine learning implementation steps ...

FLSmidth and AVEVA sign global digital solutions and service partnership agreement

08 April 2022, Published under Cement News

FLSmidth and AVEVA have signed a global partnership to deliver cutting-edge digitally enabled solutions and services to the mining industry. The agreement will accelerate the digitalisation of mining operations and allow miners to benefit from improved performance and productivity globally. With the new partnership, FLSmidth will work with AVEVA, using AVEVA's technology to securely integrate and provide various digitally enabled services to customers. AVEVA PI System will serve as the...

Titan Cement introduces digital transformation to Egyptian plants

04 April 2022, Published under Cement News

Titan Cement ’s in-house proprietary advanced analytics methodology has been successfully rolled out in the company’s two cement plants in Egypt , following the successful implementation in Titan’s cement plants in Greece. In close cooperation with Titan’s Digital Center of Competence and, after a deep ‘dive’ into 16 years of data, the company’s teams teams in Beni Suef and Alexandria cement plants have applied the methodology that enables the company to minimise the total cost of s...

FYM-HeidelbergCement to lead Neuclicem CCUS project

08 March 2022, Published under Cement News

FYM-HeidelbergCement  is leading the Neuclicem carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) project from its factory in Arrigorriaga (Cementos Rezola – Arrigorriaga ), Spain. VOLBAS will participate as a partner and  technological support will be supplied by Tecnalia Research & Innovation. The objective is to lay the operational foundations for a new CCUS   process based on the mineralisation of alkaline waste by accelerated carbonation, studying its viability on an industrial scale and op...

Cemex Ventures invests in PartRunner

04 March 2022, Published under Cement News

Cemex Ventures has announced its investment in PartRunner, an on-demand delivery platform for the construction and industrial sectors. This transaction is part of Cemex´s strategy to invest in innovative construction start-ups to drive the construction industry revolution. This investment addresses a critical industry pain point of a complicated supply chain, particularly for small and medium-sized projects.   This investment aims to offer a last-mile, last-minute delivery solution to Ce...

Añorga plant to undergo electrical energy supervision upgrade

24 February 2022, Published under Cement News

The Spanish Añorga cement factory of Sociedad Financiera y Minera SA ( HeidelbergCement Group) is to install an electrical energy management system. Currently energy measurement at the plant is carried out locally, with no real-time control of the energy consumed by the production equipment, nor its monitoring in the distributed control system (PCS7). The project will allow the analysis of the information related to the electrical consumption of the different installations t...

Cemex signs up companies to its Working Smarter digitalisation program

10 February 2022, Published under Cement News

Cemex has signed separate multi-year contracts that range from five to seven years totalling US$500m with six leading service providers under its Working Smarter digital transformation initiative. The partners are active in the fields of finance and accounting, information technology, and human resources, replacing current expenditures with the new suppliers’ services at an optimised cost, effectively continuing to reduce the company’s operating expenses.   The initiative brings all wo...

Schneider Electric and Nanjing Kisen sign strategic partnership agreement

08 February 2022, Published under Cement News

Schneider Electric has signed a long-term cooperation agreement with Nanjing Kisen (CNBM) to progress the operational efficiency of intelligent cement plants through innovative digital modernisation in alignment with UN Sustainability Goals,   The strategic partnership agreement will accelerate the digital transformation of cement plants and enterprises in China, and beyond, leveraging their shared strengths in advanced digital technologies for energy and resource efficiency.   U...