THE LINK OF TIMES

[:ru]Бильдюкевич В. Л.[:en]Bildyukevich, V. L.[:] [:ru]канд. техн. наук, зав. НИЛ вяжущих материалов, лауреат Государственной премии СССР[:en]Cand. Eng. Sc., Head of Research Laboratory of Binding Materials[:]

Alitinform №2 (14) 2010 г. 101-105 p.

Abstract

After graduating from the Silicate Department of the Chemical Faculty of Belorussia Polytechnic University in 1952, I have made a long and rather difficult way from a foreman to the head of the building materials industry in Belarus. I had to deal with the production of various types of ceramics, glass, cellular high-pressure steam cured concrete, non-metallic, finishing, polymeric, roofing and other building materials, porous filling aggregates, asbestos cement products and, of course, cement itself.

For the last 20 years, cement production in Belarus has not decreased, as it happened in other CIS countries, but volume of production has doubled. Moreover, three other powerful dry- process production lines are under construction nowadays with the task to double the current cement production in the nearest 2–3 years. The increase in cement production will lead to increase in housing both in town and in the country and to build social objects, roads and other necessary for people installations. This will result in improving the well-being of people and their quality of life, which we are witnessing nowadays.

Now we can claim that dry process of cement production has at last appeared in Belarus — a region with its raw cement suitable for wet process rather than for dry one. Our raw cement is loose chalk and marl with high moisture content. That’s why wet process has been dominating in our country for decades. But how did dry process come into being?