Raw Materials and Industrial Processes in Cement Industry

A cement plant is constrained by what is in its quarry. This week starts there: deposit assessment, reserve quality and the variability a plant has to absorb, then works through extraction, crushing, prehomogenisation and raw mix design. Corrective materials and alternative raw materials are covered practically, including the contaminant limits that decide whether a cheap material is actually cheap. The theme throughout is managing variability before it reaches the kiln.

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.

• Assess a deposit for cement raw material suitability.
• Plan extraction to control chemical variability.
• Design a raw mix to hit the target moduli.
• Evaluate corrective and alternative materials including contaminants.
• Specify prehomogenisation and blending to the variability present.

Quarry and raw materials managers, process and quality engineers, geologists supporting cement operations, and procurement staff buying corrective and alternative materials.

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 raw material quality assessment.
• A raw mix design with corrective material selection.
• A variability control plan from quarry to kiln feed.

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.