Author: CemenTürk Dergisi

Can you introduce yourself? I was born in Ankara. I completed my primary, secondary school and Chemistry Scientific Institute and Chemical Engineering education in Ankara. During my chemical engineering education at the night school of Ankara State Engineering and Architecture Academy (which changed its name as Gazi University), I also met the cement sector, by working for Türkiye Çimento Sanayii T.A.Ş (ÇİTOSAN) Department of Planning. In 1980, I started to work for Turkish Cement Producers’ Association at the position of Research Assistant, Expert, Quality Control and Laboratory Chief. During my employment at TCMA, I took part in several committees and…

Öznur LAWRIE Sales and Marketing Manager Set Technic Founded in 2004 for the purpose of producing solutions in the fields of technical safety and environmental technology, Set Technic has been enjoying an increasing success for the last 12 years. We are proud to have achieved almost all our 2016 goals within the change process that began in mid 2015. We started off with HONEYWELL in the gas sensing group and with SIEMENS in the gas analysis group. Our company became a distributor for ECOPHYSICS in 2007 and added to its product range the NO, NO2, and NOX analyzers performing measurements…

Mete COŞKUNTUNA Sales and Marketing Manager Cega Construction Chemicals CEGA, which has been significantly contributing to the Turkish cement sector with its investments and domestic capital, celebrates its 10th anniversary in the sector this year. It continues to grow with its Concrete Chemicals production plant, which began operating in 2016. With our Concrete Laboratory established in early 2016, we aim to produce top quality cement and concrete and create an exemplary Construction Materials Laboratory. We make use of the developing technologies to ensure the continuity of our Construction Materials Laboratory where all concrete, cement, aggregate, water, and chemical additive tests…

Özkan ÖZINANÇ Compressor Technique Oil-Free Air Business Line Manager Atlas Copco 2016 was not an easy year for the companies selling industrial equipment. Some investments had to be postponed, halted, or canceled for a while due to the different problems that occurred during the year. At Atlas Copco Compressor Technique Oil Free Air Department, we concentrated on our customers’ existing projects and helped value-adding systems put into practice. Energy efficiency, on the other hand, continued to be an irreplaceable issue for our customers despite all kinds of problems. In 2016 we offered solutions for all the pressure-air needs of the…

Görkem ASLAN Mechanical Engineer Burke Domestic and Foreign Trade It is mounted between two shafts. Some couplings can be used as a mechanical fuse. If one of the shafts are stuck, coupling will be torn and protect the equipment. Especially Rex Viva coupling is designed for tearing under overloads to protect shafts, bearings, motor, gearbox etc. It has “V” notch on the polyurethane membrane channels stresses to provide a uniform center line tear for overload protection. Rexnord Omega and Viva couplings can tolerate misalignments up to 4 degrees angular and 4,8mm parallel. They absorb vibrations and undertake shock loads to…

Mirey Bonfil Personal Safety Division Application Engineer 3M Works performed outdoors and walkways are very high in number in the cement sector. Use of reflective strips according to EN ISO 20471 standard, gains importance to improve visibility of trucks and bulk trailers entering and exiting from/ to packaging unit and raw material units and of the workers during evening hours. Although, the rate of using reflective strips to improve visibility has risen in Turkey, unfortunately there are still ones who indicate only grey stripes as reflective in our country. While the stopping distance of a vehicle traveling at 50 kph…

Dr. H. Serdar ŞARDAN Employers’ Trade Union of Cement Industry Employers’ Association In today’s world, industries and technologies are rapidly developing and this development helps occupational health and safety increase in importance with each passing day. The cement sector, which has been an important player in the national economy for over 100 years, also keeps up with this development trend and embraces every single new technology that comes out. In addition, it makes significant investments to help the sector further improve itself. Of course, a significant part of these investments consist of the investment made in people, in other words,…

Doç. Dr. / Assoc.Dr. Hasan YILDIRIM İ.T.Ü. Faculty of Civil Engineering – Construction Materials Group ABSTRACT It is seen that plasticizer admixtures are widely used in Turkey. This study focuses on activity of normal, super and new generation (hyper) plasticizers due to extensity of fields of use. The study primarily explains usage purposes, types, effect mechanisms of plasticizers and researches compliance of such type of admixtures used in Turkey. Tests performed at İ.T.Ü. Faculty of Civil Engineering Construction Laboratory with the admixtures manufactured by various companies and obtained results were analyzed for this research. According to the carried out analyses,…

Kornelius Thimm new head of Customer Support Kornelius Thimm, 35, and a colleague from Aarhus, Denmark, now comprise the team for the Customer Support Competence Center for the BEUMER Group’s 20 regional companies around the world. Thimm also heads Customer Support at headquarters in Beckum. Here, backed by a team of over 50 employees, he is laying the technical and organizational foundation for services for BEUMER products. With its more than 75 years of market experience, the BEUMER Group focuses on offering its customers more than “just” service. “We make a special effort to identify and implement useful additional services,…

Borusan Makina now represents CDE Global, the leader in stone and aggregate washing area, based in North Ireland. CDE Global products will meet the  consumer needs in 5 countries by Borusan corporate and service quality. Borusan Makina now represents CDE Global, the leader in stone and aggregate washing area, based inNorthern Ireland. Borusan Makina, after its success with Metso Mobile Crusher and Sieves in stone and aggregate sector which is rapidly growing inTurkey, now will present to the market CDE Global’s washing and sieving machinery.  Georgia,Kazakhistan and Kirghizistan place among these countries. While CDE Global products meet with the consumers…