In any review of the development and use of refractories in a major process industry it may be useful to consider how and perhaps why the current technology has developed as it has done.
Cement is an ancient and very basic commodity, which is today manufactured by modern processes and equipment sometimes by very new companies albeit some of these current organisations having been originally founded under entirely other names by different owners. In the last few years, the global cement industry has undergone very significant fundamental changes.
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