Siemens benefits Vietnam’s cement industry

Siemens AG, the world’s leading supplier of innovative and environmentally friendly products and solutions for industrial customers has been showcasing its modern environmental-friendly technologies at the ASEAN Federation of Cement Manufacturers (AFCM)’s 24th Technical Symposium and Exhibition in Hanoi during April 22-24, 2015, while sharing best practices and insights on how the industry is able to increase its efficiency and competitive edge.

At AFCM 2015, Siemens has showcased three of its innovative technologies that will help its customers to reduce cost, increase productivity and enhance their competitiveness remarkably. They are CEMAT, integrated drive system and SICEMENT Instrumentation.

CEMAT is a process control system that can help the local cement producers to reduce cement production costs through resource management and productivity monitoring from raw materials to finished products.

For improvement of reliability, productivity and efficiency, Siemens integrated drive system is a unique one-stop solution for the entire drive system worldwide.

Measuring and monitoring output values precisely is essential for optimising production, while alternative fuels and stricter environmental protection safety values are posing new measurement challenges for cement producers.

SICEMENT Instrumentation comprises tough measuring equipment specially developed to suit the harsh demands of the cement industry. Their high degree of reliability, functional capability and maintainability together with their low capital cost makes them an outstanding choice.

“At Siemens, we see all challenges encountered by the cement industry as opportunities, as we offer a complete portfolio of products and solutions that encompasses innovative, new, and updated technologies that can help cement producers to transform developments in the cement market into valuable opportunities, and work to actively shape current and future trends,” said Dieter Schletterer, vice president of Siemens AG’s Cement and Minerals.

“Siemens has everything covered – from design and planning to engineering, execution and service. We are committed to bringing Vietnam our cutting edge technologies in order to best support this fast growing country to meet the increasing demand for cement consumption during the process of national modernisation and industrialisation,” stressed Siemens Vietnam president and chief executive officer Pham Thai Lai.

ASEAN as a developing region has a well developed cement industry that is highly competitive regionally and globally. Vietnam is a vibrant and growing market because cement sales jumped by 16 per cent year-on-year to 64.46 million tonnes in the first 11 months of 2014, fulfilling the government’s full-year target, of which 46.16 million tonnes were sold to the domestic market.

With the rapid growth and development of the industry, technologies are constantly upgraded for sustainable development, focusing on long-term investment strategy and environmental protection.