JK White Cementâs journey of continual improvement
Published 06 April 2021
Producing white clinker and white cement requires the right raw materials, proper homogenisation, the right fuel and optimal plant process conditions. The JK White Cement plant in Gotan, India, is committed to maintaining stringent quality parameters batch after batch thanks to its journey of continual improvement. By Niranjan Mishra, JK White Cement, India.
JK White Cement plant, Gotan, India
JK White Cement, a division of JK Cement Ltd, enjoys a presence in India and is the country’s leading producer of white cement and wall putty. The company is the second-largest white cement manufacturer in India, with a capacity of 610,000tpa. Its products are sold in 43 countries around the globe. With its plants in India and Fujairah, UAE, JK Cement has become the third-largest producer of white cement globally and is presently operating at its lowest energy requirements with the highest level of productivit
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Alkali-activated materials
While blastfurnace slag and metakaolin are known to produce a binder phase following alkali activation, the range of alkali-activated materials is wider than these two materials. This month Arthur Harrisson provides an overview of low-and high-calcium precursors that are subjected to alkali activation to produce binders.
Figure 1: fly ash, a low-calcium AAM precursor
Materials that arise as waste or a by-product from industrial processes other than Portland cement manufacture have proved beneficial to concrete producers for many years when used as supplements to clinker. The benefits have been in terms of financial savings, as being instrumental in improving the durability of concrete and also as a means of reducing the carbon footprint of cement and concrete production. Key materials among these have been fly ash and blastfurnace slag. Both of these materials are widely used in combination with Portland cement clinker to produce commercial products.
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