Cimento Apodi identified by CemWeek as CBI Brazil's "Best Cement & Lime Project"

Cimento Apodi is the first winner of GMI Global's ÔÇ£Dr. Clemente Greco Best Cement & Lime Project AwardÔÇØ

CemWeek, a main supporter of the CBI Brazil & Latin America 2014 conference that took place in Brazil, on the 5th and 6th of February, identified Cimento Apodi as the ÔÇ£Best New Brazilian and Latin American Cement & Lime ProjectÔÇØ of the year. The prestigious recognition is a premiere for GMI Global's Cement Business & Industry Brazilian and Latin American conference and exhibition and CemWeek is honored to support this exciting initiative honoring Dr. Greco and the cement industry with evaluation and selection of the awards.

As GMI Global carries on the tradition of the conference and exhibition previously championed by Adriano Greco, honors the legacy of his father and great professor and engineer, Dr. Clemente Greco, with a symbolic award: "Best New Project". The award ceremony was hosted by Maria Eugenia Arroyo Hernandez, GMI Global's Americas Marketing Director and Claudia Stefanoiu, Senior Analyst at the CW Group, representing CemWeek.

ÔÇ£I was delighted to accept the honoring of my father's name in such a prestigious award. The "Dr. Clemente Greco Best Cement & Lime Project Award" reflects not only my family tradition in the cement and lime business since 1966. It mainly represents his impressive achievements in the areas of combustion in cement kilns and innovative fuel usage in cement plants. Dr. Clemente Greco made viable the burning of 100 % petcoke in cement kilns - something considered a waste at that time. I would like to extend congratulations to the winning project and to express my support for the years to come in transforming the award into a tradition and landmark of the Latin American industryÔÇØ, Adriano Greco commented.

The winning project was installed by LVT, which in 2010 completed the engineering part and realized the purchase of equipment for the Quixire factory located in Ceara. The project is expected to be commissioned in August 2014. It is the first project in Latin America that benefits from WHR - waste hear recovery system, with generation capacity of 6MW of energy itself, unequivocally contributing to greater sustainability.

ÔÇ£To be awarded with the first ÔÇ£Dr. Clemente Greco Best Cement & Lime Project Award" is a great accomplishment for both LVT and Cimento Apodi. We are excited to have been able to implement the first Waste Heat Recovery within Latin America ÔÇô an innovative approach that unveils new opportunities for more similar projects in the regional cement spaceÔÇØ, says Tiago Salazar Couto, Director, LV Latino Am├®rica.

CemWeek received many nominations before the ceremony and the winner was selected from three finalists. Claudius Peters, one of the runner-ups, substituted a satellite clinker cooler with a 4^th generation ETA cooler at Holcim Untervaz, Switzerland. The replacement was performed in just 35 days, activity that improved all indicators of thermal recovery, energy consumption and production quality.

Gebr. Pfeiffer was selected as a finalist for its biggest VRM project in the world, installed at Holcim Barroso, Brazil. The mill supplied by Gebr. Pfeiffer represents a single mill solution that can achieve the lowest specific investment cost per ton of cement.

The CBI event has gathered more than 300 senior level executives and decision makers in the Latin American cement industry. The conference oriented around themes such as: cement company of tomorrow, innovation, environmental performance, trading, shipping, and logistics challenges.

More information about the conference can be accessed by following the link to the official event page on the GMI Forum website: http://gmiforum.com/welcome-to-cbi-brazil-a-latam-2014.