CONTINUOUS EXPANSION KHD Humbolt Wedag GmbH is the key global player for cement plant technology, equipment and services. Industry Europe looks at the foundations of the company’s success and its current activities.
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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 operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa, is based at 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 in 1953, a revolution in terms of energy effi-