Cement is one of the most important products in our modern society. With cement one can make concrete and mortars.
Limestone is the raw material for making cement. The stone is extracted and crushed to a fine powder (raw-meal) together with small portions of other materials. Next step is the kiln-system, where the raw-meal is heated up to about 1,450 ºC. At these temperatures, the raw-meal undergoes a partly melting and creates small lumps called clinker. The clinker is cooled down.
In the final step the clinker is milled to the fine powder we know as cement. In this process materials such as gypsum and additives is supplementet to make to various cement types.
In Northern Europe we have six cement plants:
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The cement plants had a production of 5.731.000 tons in 2007.
To supply our markets, we have a web of terminals - 45 in total. In our non-producing countries, we distribute cement from the following companies: DK Cement (Denmark), Baltik Saule (Latvia) and Gerdukas (Lithuania)