Cement & Concrete Manufacturing Technology Expo Asia 2027

Attendees, exhibitors & solutions

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Industry trends

Key trends shaping this market and its wider industry.

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Glossary

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Clinker

The nodular intermediate product from a rotary kiln, produced by sintering limestone and aluminosilicate materials; it is ground with gypsum to make cement.

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Rotary kiln

The large rotating furnace where raw meal is calcined and sintered into clinker at roughly 1,400-1,500 C flame temperatures. Kiln suppliers and refractory makers are core exhibitor groups at cement technology fairs.

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Preheater and precalciner

A tower of cyclones, plus a calciner vessel, that heats raw meal with kiln exhaust gas before it enters the kiln; precalciner design strongly affects fuel flexibility and specific heat consumption.

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OPC and blended cement

Ordinary Portland Cement versus blended cements such as Portland Pozzolana Cement (PPC) or Portland Limestone Cement, where clinker is partly replaced by supplementary materials to lower CO2 per tonne.

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Supplementary cementitious material (SCM)

Materials such as fly ash, ground granulated blast-furnace slag, limestone or natural pozzolana used to replace part of the clinker in cement, reducing emissions and cost.

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Alternative fuels (AFR)

Secondary fuels - biomass, refuse-derived fuel, tyres, sludges and other wastes - that substitute for coal or petcoke in the kiln and calciner. Handling, dosing and burner technology for AFR is a recurring theme at cement exhibitions.

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Vertical roller mill (VRM)

A grinding mill used for raw meal, cement and slag, where rollers press material against a rotating table; compared with ball mills it typically cuts specific power consumption.

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Specific heat and power consumption

Key performance indicators in cement plants, usually quoted as kcal per kg of clinker and kWh per tonne of cement; equipment suppliers benchmark new installations against these figures.

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SNCR and NOx abatement

Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction injects ammonia or urea into the kiln riser to cut nitrogen oxide emissions; bag filters and electrostatic precipitators handle dust.

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Carbon capture (CCUS) in cement

Emerging projects that capture CO2 from kiln flue gas for storage or utilisation, since roughly two thirds of cement sector emissions come from limestone calcination rather than fuel combustion.

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Refractory lining

Bricks and castables lining the kiln shell, preheater and cooler; lining life and thermal shock resistance are major maintenance cost drivers and a common product family on the show floor.

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Clinker factor

The share of clinker in a tonne of cement. Lowering the clinker factor by adding SCMs is one of the fastest levers cement producers have to reduce embodied CO2.