EASTWARD EXPANSION KHD Humboldt Wedag GmbH, the global key player for cement plant technology, equipment and services, has just secured an exciting strategic partnership in the important Chinese market. Julia Snow finds out more from managing director Ralf Slomski.
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a technology leader with over 150 years of industry experience KHD is renowned for its process engineering and project management competencies as well as its energy-efficient products for the cement grinding and pyroprocessing sections of cement plants.
Today the holding company KHD Humboldt Wedag International AG has over 750 employees worldwide, and area offices for Asia Pacific, North and South America, India, China and CIS/Russia. Ralf Slomski, responsible for KHD’s EMEA operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa, is based in the Cologne headquarters.
Global development based on innovations The company was founded in 1856 as a manufacturer of mining machinery. A key date was the first delivered cement kiln in 1906, but KHD’s best known breakthrough was the invention of the first preheater kiln
