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The build-up related to another “Cooler Wars” panel discussion for this week’s IEEE Conference Participants turned out to be very anticlimactic. Following the panel discussion, nearly all of the participants polled concluded that there is very little in the way of technology that currently differentiate the major OEMs (KHD, Polysius, FLSmidth, Claudius Peters) when it comes [...] Here is a list of the speakers for the concurrent Environmental Workshop and our notes on what they had to say during their presentation and during the subsequent Q&A Session for conference participants: 1. AB -32: CO2 Climate Change and the Cement Industry by Michael Stevens of National Cement: Phil Gaynor shared his thoughts on the purpose of this conference: Knowledge Transfer This conference is widely acknowledged to be the world’s leading technical conference for the cement industry and the Cement Industry Committee (CIC) has done some neat things, like the concurrent Environmental Workshop, to make this conference [...] Mel Brekhus shared his thoughts on what we, as leaders in the cement industry, need to do in order to thrive in these turbulent and tumultuous times in the cement industry: I – Integrity (relationships you can trust) The 2009 Conference Program opened with a powerful speech made by Ed Sullivan, Chief Economist for the Portland Cement Association. (Sullivan, by the way, recently testified to Congress on the stimulus package and has received high praise for the accuracy of his predictions). 1. Short Term Forecast: The Bad News: ‘Green shoots’ of recovery? … What green shoots? We have not [...] Conference Organizers are pretty satisfied with the level of attendance (600 people are reportedly registered) in consideration of the weakened economy. Even more satisfying is that 80 of the 600 are cement producers. California Portland and TXI are key contributors to attendance. Ash Grove has only one registrant, but reportedly will be back in 2010 to support [...] Update : This site and blog are going ‘live’ on Sunday May 31st, from the 2009 IEEE/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference in Palm Springs, California USA. As a courtesy to our customers, we will be posting live updates during the conference to give you a “play-by-play” feel to those of you who could not be in [...] |
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