Blended Cement Operation and Process Techniques

Blended cements cut clinker factor and emissions and are harder to make well. This week covers the supplementary materials in use, what each contributes and what it costs in early strength, and the grinding strategies available, intergrinding against separate grinding, with the particle size distribution consequences of each. Quality control gets extended attention, since blended products vary more and the standards conformity question is correspondingly tighter.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Select supplementary materials on contribution, cost and availability.
• Choose between intergrinding and separate grinding for a product.
• Manage early strength loss and setting changes.
• Control quality on a product with more variable inputs.
• Meet standards conformity for a blended type.

Process and quality engineers, production managers, product development staff, and technical sales handling blended products.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A blended product formulation with its rationale.
• A grinding strategy comparison.
• A quality control plan sized to the extra variability.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.