Cement Manufacturing
Cement Plant Operations
Fundamentals of Cement Manufacturing Technology
The whole cement process from quarry to despatch, for people who need the complete picture once.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Contact hours
- 30
- Level
- Foundation
- Fee from
- On enquiry
Overview
Cement plants are long, hot and interconnected, and somebody who only knows their own section will keep being surprised by it. This week builds the process end to end: raw materials and quarrying, raw meal preparation, pyroprocessing, clinker, grinding and despatch. It explains why the plant is built the way it is, what each stage is trying to achieve chemically, and where a decision in one area shows up as a problem in another.
Who should attend
New process and production engineers, maintenance and electrical staff wanting the process context, laboratory and quality personnel, and commercial or support staff at cement companies.
What you will be able to do
- Follow the process from raw material to bagged product.
- Explain what each stage contributes chemically and physically.
- Name the major equipment and what it is for.
- Relate a problem in one area to its cause in another.
- Use the plant's vocabulary correctly.
How it is taught
Short input, then work, across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each. Exercises run on situations delegates bring rather than on a case study written for a different organisation. Cohorts are capped so that everybody is asked something.
Available as classroom, live online, in house.
Programme outline
Day 1
Raw materials
- Limestone, clay, corrective materials and their chemistry
- Quarrying, crushing and prehomogenisation
- Raw mix design and the moduli
Day 2
Raw meal
- Raw grinding systems
- Drying, classification and fineness
- Blending and homogenisation
Day 3
Pyroprocessing
- Preheater, calciner and kiln
- Burning zone and clinker formation
- Cooling, and why cooling rate matters
Day 4
Cement
- Clinker, gypsum and additions
- Finish grinding and separation
- Fineness, strength and setting
Day 5
The plant as a system
- Energy balance in outline
- Emissions and dust control
- Storage, packing and despatch
What you leave with
- A process flow diagram you have drawn and can explain.
- A mass and energy picture of a typical line.
- A list of the interactions that most often cause trouble.
Dates and fees
| Dates | Location | Format | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 to 27 November 2026 | Cairo, Egypt | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 30 November 2026 to 4 December 2026 | Accra, Ghana | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 7 to 11 December 2026 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 14 to 18 December 2026 | Durban, South Africa | Classroom | R15,000 |
Fees are per delegate and cover tuition, all programme materials and the certificate. Travel, accommodation and visas are arranged by the delegate. Registration closes two weeks before a programme starts.
Certificate
A GATI certificate recording what was 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.
It records participation. and GATI does not claim one it does not hold.