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KHD is a customer focused equipment supplier and service company providing competitive and environmentally friendly technologies to the cement and mining industries. KHD is listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange and has been providing industrial plant equipment and services for over 150 years.

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KHD is committed to continuously improving our technology and offering to customers. KHD has a long history of innovation and has been the first to introduce many industry leading products.

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KHD is focused on helping our customers meet future cement demand in developing countries and building cement plants for the next generation. This demand is growing rapidly due to increasing populations, urbanisation and industrialisation in developing countries.

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KHD is listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange and hence has access to equity capital markets. KHD has no financial debt and sufficient bonding facilities to support and grow our business.

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KHD is fully committed to understanding all of our customers and to being close to our customers through our local customer service centres. As a supplier of equipment and plant services, KHD is a critical part of the supply chain to build new capacity and to upgrade and service existing capacity.

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KHD’s goal is to provide competitive technology to our customers. This means understanding our markets, investing in research and development, providing cost effective solutions based on the concept of lifetime cost of ownership and delivering world class performance.

Environmentally
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Looking after the environment will be one of recurring themes of the next decades. KHD is committed to developing environmentally friendly products, increasing the energy efficiency of our products and reducing potentially harmful emissions.

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KHD’s goal is to create a world leading plant service business to support our equipment supply business. KHD recognises the cyclical nature of the industry in which we operate and has set a long term strategic goal of generating at least 50% of revenues from plant services in the future.

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Matter

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KHD Humboldt Wedag´s Test Center

Laboratory Analyses – Materials Testing – R & D

Competence and reliability of KHD´s test center is based on

a staff, experienced in the areas of cement process technologies and coal & minerals processing
equipment with a broad range of facilities for analyzing and testing the broad variety of the relevant materials in laboratory, bench and large scale
laboratory techniques and test procedures, partially developed by KHD but all tailor-made.

The results of chemical and physical analyses and testing provide a basis for

optimization of raw mix design
process flowsheet development
provision of layout data for plants and machinery
safeguarding of warranties

Chemical and physical laboratory

Laboratory analyses at KHD test center comprises the latest methods and procedures applied to raw materials, intermediate, products and solid fuels:

Testcenter Cement 2

Chemical and physical testing of the materials related to the cement production process:
Chemical analyses
Fuel analyses
Particle size analyses
Determination of absolute density
Determination of mass-related surface (BLAINE)
Grindability tests according to Zeisel for raw material and cement; according to Hardgrove for coal and according to Bond for ores
KHD crushability and abrasion tests etc

Test facilities

Testcenter Cement 3 Laboratory up to semi-industrial test facilities at KHD Humboldt Wedag´s test center allow for realistic tests with materials related to the cement production process like raw materials, clinker, slag, petcoke etc.

High Pressure Grinding Mills / Roller Presses

operating in open and closed circuit with a capacity of 10 to 50 t/h depending on the feed material and the fineness; moisture content up to 10%.

RP 80/25 with 800 mm roll diameter and 250 mm width
RP 80/120 with 800 mm roll diameter and 120 mm width

Classifiers: static V- and dynamic, high efficiency VSK®- and SKS-separators

operating as single machines or as process step in the closed circuit test mill.

V- and VSK®-separators
SKS-separator, SEPMASTER

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2011-07-13

KHD wins order for 4,000 t/d kiln line in Turkey

KHD Humboldt Wedag received the order for engineering, equipment supply, supervision of erection, and commissioning, including on shore training, for Askale Cimento´s new 4,000 t/d pyro-processing system at Gümüshane cement plant, near the town Gümüshane in North-East Black Sea region of Turkey.

2011-05-30

Quality First : KHD partners with world leader for assessment and certification

Cologne, May 2011

New Partnership
KHD and Bureau Veritas have now become global partners for quality inspections and supplier audits. Bureau Veritas has 48,000 employees and 930 offices in 140 countries; they are one of the world’s leading inspection, certification and classification companies.

2011-03-31

KHD publishes 2010 figures

Today KHD published its 2010 figures. Several highlights are

Strong order intake in 2010
Strategic partnerships provide new growth opportunities
Management Board expects 2011 new orders and revenue approximately at previous year's level

Conference call with webcast, 31 March, 2011

Read more … KHD publishes 2010 figures

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