Products Grindability: Complete Technical Guide

Cement grindability is the property that decides how much energy the finish mill consumes to reach the required fineness: it is expressed in kilowatt-hours per ton, measured in the laboratory and watched on the mill floor every shift: the product engineer of the cement plant translates grindability into the Blaine surface, into the residue on the 45-micron sieve and finally into the strength of the concrete that the client pours: without the grindability discipline, the mill produces a cement that is either too coarse to sell or too fine to afford: the guide of the file is the meeting point between the laboratory and the production floor.

The Complete Cement Technical Package (931 files including the books, the courses, the Excel tools and the presentations: $249.99 one-time: instant download via the PayPal payment) includes this grindability guide with its tables, its worked examples and its mill-floor checklists: this article walks the document section by section: the definition, the laboratory test, the Blaine instrument, the composition effects, the standards and the trouble-shooting: the reader closes the page with the complete picture of the grindability of Portland cement: the same picture the production engineer keeps in the daily log.

Why does the 2002 series remain the reference? Because the material science it documents has not changed: the clinker phases, the gypsum intergrinding and the air-permeability method are the constants of the industry: what the 2002 editions captured with precision is the working routine of the cement laboratory and the finish mill of the era: the routine that is still the backbone of the modern quality department: the reader follows the same order as the document: the theory, the test, the tables, the standards, the plant practice.

1. Grindability: The Definition and the Language of the Mill

Grindability is the ease with which a material is reduced to a given fineness: a material of high grindability requires little energy, a material of low grindability requires much energy: the cement engineer on the mill floor speaks of “easy clinker” and “hard clinker” exactly in this sense: the quarry and the kiln feed the mill with material whose grindability changes with the seasons, the fuel and the kiln operation: the product remains constant because the grindability is measured, anticipated and compensated.

The vocabulary of the field is precise and the guide fixes the terms:

• The work index (Wi): the kilowatt-hours per ton required to reduce the material from an infinite feed size to 80% passing 100 micrometers: the standard of comparison between materials;
• The Blaine surface: the specific surface area in square meters per kilogram measured by air permeability: the classical index of cement fineness;
• The residue: the percentage of the material retained on a selected sieve, most often the 45-micron sieve (325 mesh) and the 90-micron sieve (170 mesh);
• The particle size distribution: the full curve from the finest to the coarsest particles, measured by laser diffraction or by the sieve series: the distribution governs the water demand, the strength and the setting;
• The specific energy: the kilowatt-hours per ton actually consumed by the mill circuit: the measured counterpart of the calculated work index;

The five terms close the loop of the product laboratory: the work index tells the designer how much mill power to install, the residue tells the operator how the mill is running today, the Blaine tells the quality chemist the surface the product carries, the distribution tells the concrete engineer how the cement will behave and the specific energy tells the accountant what it all costs: the grindability file is the thread that ties the five numbers into one story.

2. The Physical Basis: Surface Area, Energy and the Bond Equation

The grinding law of Bond states that the energy consumed in size reduction is proportional to the new surface area created: the mathematical form used by the industry is the equation W = 10 × Wi / √P − 10 × Wi / √F, where W is the specific energy in kilowatt-hours per ton, Wi the work index, P the 80% passing size of the product in micrometers and F the 80% passing size of the feed:

The structure of the equation carries the practical message of the mill: the feed term (10 × Wi / √F) is usually small because the feed is coarse, while the product term (10 × Wi / √P) is large because the product is fine: grinding to a smaller P costs dramatically more: reducing P from 100 to 50 micrometers at constant Wi increases the energy by the factor of the square roots: the 29% of the difference in the size doubles the relevant energy term: the arithmetic behind every “the last microns are the most expensive microns” statement of the mill floor.

For the cement clinker, the 80% passing product of the finish mill lies between 20 and 40 micrometers, and the expression shows why the finish mill dominates the electrical bill of the plant: the finish grinding consumes 35 to 40% of the total electrical energy of the cement plant, a share that the guide places at the top of the energy balance table: the engineer who improves the grindability of the clinker, the efficiency of the classifier or the ball charge touches the largest energy line of the factory.

The ball size selection follows the same physics: the coarse feed of the first compartment needs the 60 to 90 mm balls to crack the particles, the fine material of the second compartment needs the 15 to 30 mm media to create the surface: the mill whose second compartment carries the oversized balls spends the energy on the collisions that produce no new surface: the media grading of the guide follows the Bond arithmetic so that each compartment strikes with the weapon appropriate to the size of the target: the grindability of the clinker and the grading of the media are the two sides of the same equation, and the plants that re-graded their mills after the Bond audit reported the 5 to 10% energy savings without changing the product.

3. The Laboratory Determination: The Bond Mill Test in Practice

The work index is not taken from a table in the serious plant: it is measured in the standard Bond mill, the 12 inch by 12 inch ball mill with the fixed ball charge of 285 balls: the procedure of the file is the discipline of the measurement:

1. The sample preparation: the material is dried, weighed and screened so that the feed size distribution is known: the 80% passing feed size F is determined by the sieve series;
2. The mill charge: a fixed mass of the material enters the mill with the standard ball charge: the revolutions of the first cycle are estimated from the F and the target sieve;
3. The cycling: after each grinding step the material is screened at the control sieve: the oversize returns to the mill with fresh feed: the revolution count of each cycle is recalculated so that the circulating load approaches 250%: the steady state of the test;
4. The product analysis: at the steady state the product size distribution is sieved and the 80% passing size P is found graphically;
5. The result: the F, the P and the last cycles enter the Bond equation and the work index Wi is computed: the number of the report: the number of the design;

The test takes several hours and the guide warns the reader about the sources of scatter: the moisture of the sample, the wear of the sieve, the cleanliness of the mill: the careful laboratory repeats the measurement on three aliquots and reports the mean: the certified plants keep a reference material of known index and run it quarterly to confirm the machine has not drifted: the work index is only as good as the discipline that produced it.

4. The Work Indices of the Cement Materials: The Reference Table

The typical values of the industry are the first stopping point of the estimator and the designer: the ranges below reflect decades of published measurements and the laboratory books of the cement industry:

Table 1: Typical Bond work indices of cement-plant materials

Material	Work index Wi, kWh/t	Remarks
Portland cement clinker	12.7 – 16.0	The reference of the finish mill design
Cement raw mix	10.5 – 12.5	Raw mill sizing values
Limestone (quarry rock)	8.0 – 12.0	The softer component of the raw mix
Gypsum (natural rock)	8.0 – 9.0	Soft, grinds easily in the finish mill
Granulated blast-furnace slag	15.0 – 20.0	The hardest common additive of blended cements
Quartz sand	16.5 – 19.0	Abrasive and hard: the wear risk of the circuit
Fly ash (siliceous)	10.0 – 12.0	Variable with the carbon content
Pozzolana (natural)	11.0 – 14.0	Depends strongly on the deposit

The table is the map of the energy of the plant: the clinker at 13 to 16 anchors the finish mill, the limestone at 8 to 12 anchors the raw mill: when the plant grinds slag in the same finish mill, the blended cement inherits the higher index of the slag and the mill either loses tonnage or the cement loses fineness: the designer resolves the conflict with the higher mill power, the classifier adjustments or the separate grinding line: the guide discusses all three roads with the numbers of the table.

An example fixes the arithmetic: clinker with Wi = 14.0 kWh/t, feed 80% at 10,000 micrometers, product 80% at 30 micrometers: W = 10 × 14.0 / √30 − 10 × 14.0 / √10000 = 25.56 − 1.40 = 24.2 kWh/t: the finish grinding of one ton of this clinker needs about 24 kilowatt-hours at the mill shell, before the drive losses: the plant measuring 33 to 38 kWh/t at the meter sees the difference between the theoretical shell energy and the motor power with the fan, the separator and the conveying of the circuit: the gap is the efficiency of the system: the guide shows how to close part of the gap with the separator efficiency and the ball charge.

5. The Blaine Fineness: The Air-Permeability Method

The Blaine fineness, named after the method of air permeability standardized in ASTM C204, is the specific surface of the cement in square meters per kilogram: the principle is elegant: a fixed bed of the cement powder resists the passage of a fixed volume of air with a resistance proportional to the surface of the particles: the finer the cement, the higher the resistance and the longer the timed passage: the measurement is fast, cheap and reproducible, which is why it became the global currency of cement fineness.

The routine of the laboratory:

• The sample bed: a fixed mass of the cement, 2.80 g for the ordinary Portland cement of typical density, is compacted in the standard cell to a fixed void volume: the compaction must be identical bed after bed;
• The permearn measurement: the manometer is filled and the time for the water level to fall between the two marks is taken: the surface is proportional to the square root of the time;
• The calculation: the instrument constant, calibrated against a reference cement of known surface, converts the time into square meters per kilogram;
• The reporting: the result is reported together with the temperature of the measurement, because the air viscosity changes with the temperature: the standard correction applies;
• The frequency: the production laboratories measure the Blaine of every production hour or every second hour, and of every silo before the dispatch;

The Blaine has its blind spot and the honest guide names it: the air-permeability surface weights the fine particles more than the coarse ones and says nothing about the shape of the distribution: two cements with the same Blaine can differ in the amount of the coarse tail above 45 micrometers, and the coarse tail is precisely what the concrete engineer watches: the mature laboratory therefore runs the Blaine together with the residue on the 45-micron sieve: the pair, not the single number.

The residue discipline deserves its own paragraph because the 45-micron sieve is the gate of the coarse tail: the wet-sieving method of ASTM C430 washes a 1 g sample through the No. 325 sieve and weighs the retained fraction: the residue of the typical 42.5 cement lies between 5 and 12%: the residue correlates with the concrete behavior better than the Blaine in one respect: the particles above 45 micrometers are the visible risk of the under-strength concrete because their hydration is slow and their contribution to the early strength is small: the production chemist who watches the residue catches the coarsening days before the strength tests of the mortar confirm the drift: the daily residue is the early warning system of the quality department, and the 2002 series documents the exact screening practice that makes the warning reliable.

6. The Typical Fineness Values of the Product Range

The products of the cement plant are defined by the strength classes of the standards, and each class carries its customary fineness window: the table below collects the values observed across the European and American plants of the period, the working numbers of the 2002 series:

Table 2: Typical Blaine fineness and residues by cement type

Cement type (EN 197-1 class)	Blaine, m²/kg	Residue 45 µm, %	Use
CEM I 32.5 N (general purpose)	280 – 330	12 – 18	Mass concrete, masonry
CEM I 42.5 N	310 – 360	8 – 14	Structural concrete
CEM I 42.5 R	340 – 390	5 – 10	Early-stripping formwork works
CEM I 52.5 N	370 – 420	3 – 7	Prestressed and high-early-strength
CEM I 52.5 R	400 – 460	1 – 4	Fast-track concrete, repairs
CEM II/A-LL 42.5 (limestone)	350 – 420	4 – 9	General concrete, plaster
CEM III/A 42.5 (slag 40-65%)	380 – 460	2 – 6	Marine and mass concrete
Sulfate-resisting cement (Type V / SR)	300 – 350	9 – 15	Groundwater and sulfate soils

The window teaches the engineering trade: the finer cement gains early strength but loses the workability margin, the shelf life and the grinding economy: the cement at 400 Blaine costs roughly 15 to 25% more grinding energy than the cement at 320 Blaine on the same clinker: the products plan of the plant is therefore a fineness plan: the dispatcher, the salesman and the mill operator read the same table when the client order changes the class overnight.

The white cement stands apart: its Blaine commonly reaches 400 to 470 m²/kg because the decorative applications demand the smooth surface and the fast early strength, while the clinker of the white plant grinds harder because of the lower iron oxide content and the higher melt: the white products of the 2002 catalog are the classic example of the market pulling the fineness above the technical minimum.

7. The Influence of the Clinker Composition on Grindability

The grindability of the clinker is written by the kiln: the mineral composition, the burning temperature and the cooling speed set how much energy the mill must spend: the guide dedicates a full section to the composition effects, and the mill floor confirms them every day:

• The C3S and C2S balance: the alite-dominated clinkers of the modern burn (C3S 55 to 65%) grind to a medium hardness, while the belite-rich clinkers (C2S above 25%) are notoriously harder and produce the coarser, more dusty grind: the kiln feed with the too-high lime saturation leaves the belite residue in the clinker;
• The C3A content: the aluminate phase is the dissolution friend of the grindability: the higher C3A clinkers (10 to 12%) grind easier but demand the higher gypsum addition to control the setting: the balance of the sulfate section of the products series;
• The alkali content: the sodium and potassium sulfates concentrate in the fine fractions and act as natural grinding aids up to a point: the high-alkali clinker (above 1.0% Na2O-equivalent) can also coat the balls and plug the mill: the two-faced effect;
• The free lime: the underburned clinker with free CaO above 2.5% grinds dusty and soft but poisons the soundness: the easy grind is not a compliment here;
• The cooling regime: the rapidly cooled clinker of the modern grate coolers keeps the fine alite crystals and grinds more evenly, while the slowly cooled clinker devitrifies and hardens: the cooler performance is visible in the mill power;
• The magnesia and the impurities: the periclase crystals of the slow-cooled clinkers are hard and abrasive: the gehlenite, the merwinite and the foreign oxides change the texture: the clinker microscopy of the file ties the thin section to the kWh;

The composition message is the strategic one of the file: the kiln operator who improves the burning and the cooling improves the grindability of the mill without spending a single kilowatt at the mill: the cross-department cooperation between the kiln control room and the finish mill is one of the most profitable habits of the cement plant: the guide argues this case with the numbers of the energy balance.

8. The Role of the Gypsum and the Grinding Aids

The finish mill grinds clinker and gypsum together, and the gypsum is not a passive passenger: its softness and its moisture condition the grinding itself:

• The gypsum addition: the typical dosage of 3 to 5% SO3-equivalent, set to the optimum of the setting and the strength of the plant’s clinker: the gypsum rock grinds so easily that it shifts the mill product toward the finer side and reduces the overall energy per ton of the blend;
• The dehydration in the mill: the mill temperature above 110 °C drives the gypsum toward the hemihydrate and the soluble anhydrite, which changes the setting behavior of the finished cement: the grindability picture and the setting picture are one picture: the mill ventilation and the water injection of the guide keep the temperature in the safe band of 95 to 115 °C;
• The chemical grinding aids: the amines and the glycols added at 0.02 to 0.10% of the feed reduce the surface energy of the particles, prevent the re-agglomeration and coat the balls: the plants measure the typical gains of 5 to 10% in mill output and 3 to 8% in energy at the same fineness: the economics of the additive pay within weeks;
• The aid effect on the product: the aids reduce the pack set and the agglomeration in the silo, improving the discharge behavior: the same additive chemistry connects this grindability file to the agglomeration file of the series;
• The water injection: the spray water in the second compartment cools the mill and stabilizes the gypsum: the balance of the water against the ventilation is the daily skill of the operator;

The two levers, the gypsum and the aids, are the fastest corrections available when the mill struggles: the laboratory confirms the sulfate situation within the hour, the aid pump is adjusted within ten minutes: the guide hands the shift team the exact decision tree: measure the residue, check the mill temperature, look at the separator, then touch the gypsum and the aid: the order of the checks is the discipline.

9. Fineness, Strength and Water Demand: The Product Trade-Off

The fineness produces the strength through the hydration surface: the finer cement hydrates faster, develops the higher early strength and the higher 28-day strength up to a point; beyond the optimum the finer cement costs more energy, demands more water in the concrete and stands less safely in the bin: the trade-off needs the numbers:

• The early strength: the cement at 380 m²/kg develops roughly 10 to 15% more 2-day strength than the same clinker at 320 m²/kg, everything else equal: the classic gain of the “R” classes;
• The 28-day strength: the long-term gain is smaller than the early gain because the coarse particles continue hydrating for months: the 40 to 60% of the ordinary cement above 30 micrometers is the reservoir of the late strength: the overgrinding past the optimum wastes energy for little long-term return;
• The water demand: the finer cement needs more mixing water for the same workability: the water demand rises roughly 1 kg per 10 m²/kg of Blaine: the strength gain of the fineness can be cancelled by the extra water of the concrete mix;
• The heat of hydration: the finer cement releases the hydration heat faster: the mass concrete and the summer pours watch the fineness spec of the cement with the temperature of the core: the 32.5 N class exists largely for this reason;
• The shrinkage and the cracking: the fine cements of the high-early classes show the higher drying shrinkage: the product engineers of the file keep the fineness at the validated optimum, not at the maximum;

The message of the section: the fineness is an engineering variable with the optimum in the middle, not at the edge: the plants that chase the record Blaine buy the strength at the price of the energy, the water demand and the dispatch trouble: the product manual of the 2002 series is a manual of the optimum, and the tables of section 6 are its operating window.

A numerical example fixes the cost of the chase: a finish mill producing 120 tons per hour at 340 m²/kg consumes about 30 kWh/t at the meter; pushing the same mill to 400 m²/kg raises the specific energy by roughly 20 to 25%, to about 36 to 37 kWh/t: the mill loses 15 to 20 tons per hour of output at the same absorbed power: at 7,000 operating hours per year and an electricity price of 0.07 USD per kWh, the fineness chase above the optimum costs the plant in the order of 1.5 to 2 million USD per year in energy alone, before the lost sales of the tonnage: the guide places the arithmetic on the table precisely so the production meeting argues with the numbers instead of the habits.

10. The Standards: EN 197-1, ASTM C150 and the Test Methods

The grindability vocabulary meets the legal vocabulary in the standards, and the guide positions the fineness instruments in the frame of the law:

• EN 197-1 (Europe): the standard defines the strength classes 32.5, 42.5 and 52.5 with the N (normal) and R (rapid) early strength: it does not prescribe a Blaine limit: the fineness remains the freedom and the responsibility of the producer, disciplined by the strength requirements and the setting time limits (initial set minimum 60 minutes for the 32.5 N class and 45 minutes for the rapid classes, final set maximum 12 hours):
• ASTM C150 (United States): the standard covers the types I to V of the Portland cement: the test method ASTM C204 (the Blaine air-permeability) is the referee fineness measurement; the residue method ASTM C430 uses the 45-micrometer sieve: the Type III high-early cement of the American practice is produced at the typical Blaine of 450 to 550 m²/kg, the highest of the family;
• ASTM C786 and the sieve methods: the wet-sieving discipline of the 45-micron residue: the standard screens, the constant washing and the drying of the retained cake: the numbers of the methodical sieve room;
• The laser diffraction (ISO 13320): the modern instrument of the distribution: the D50 and the D90 of the cement product, the fines share below 3 micrometers and the coarse share above 45: the reference method of the research and of the finished-product development;
• The conformity frame: the certified plants release the cement against the declared strength class and the declared limits of the standard: the fineness is the internal lever that keeps the legal declaration honest: the quality report of every dispatch quotes the measured fineness behind the declared class;

The European and the American frames differ in the vocabulary but converge on the physics: the surface, the residue and the distribution are measured the same way in both worlds, and the shipping documents of the exported cement quote both frames so the client on either continent reads the fineness of his delivery: the guide closes the section with the table of the equivalent test references so the engineer of the export plant converts the numbers without a phone call.

11. The Mill-Floor Routine: The Shift Checklist of the Grindability

The laboratory numbers reach the mill floor as the targets of the shift: the routine of the file is the checklist that keeps the product inside the window from the first hour to the last:

• The hourly residue: the sample from the mill outlet or the separator: the 45-micron residue and the Blaine of the product: the trend line on the shift board: the deviation of more than 3% of the residue target triggers the action;
• The feed watch: the clinker temperature, the moisture and the grindability of the feed are noted with every hour: the harder clinker appears first as the rising mill amperage and the falling tonnage: the operator compensates with the separator speed before the residue drifts;
• The ball charge: the monthly ball top-up and the quarterly charge analysis: the worn media raise the specific energy and leave the coarse tail in the product: the charge curve of the guide matches the balls to the material;
• The separator check: the classifier speed, the bypass and the internal clearances: the high-efficiency separator of the 1990s and 2000s plants is the efficiency machine of the circuit: the guide’s table of the typical separator cuts and the bypass percentages calibrates the weekly check;
• The mill temperature and ventilation: the outlet gas temperature between 95 and 115 °C, the ventilation within the design flow: the cold-start behavior and the night-climate shifts: the gypsum dehydration watch;
• The gypsum and the aid adjustments: the weekly sulfate report from the laboratory sets the gypsum feed and the aid pump: the certified range of the SO3 of the finished cement is the corridor of the adjustment;

The checklist converts the grindability science into the hourly discipline: the plants that follow it hold the product within the declared class with the minimum energy: the plants that neglect it discover the drift in the client complaints after the month: the guide’s highest value is this translation of the theory into the routine of the twelfth hour of the night shift.

The shift report of the finish mill closes the loop: the log records the feed type and temperature, the mill power, the separator speed, the product residue and the Blaine, the gypsum and the aid doses, and the mill outlet temperature at every hour: the report of the day compresses the story of the grindability: the kiln delivered the harder clinker at the third hour, the separator was raised, the residue came back: the weekly review of the shift reports identifies the repeated patterns and the timing of the interventions: the archive of the reports is the training material of the operators: the guide of the series provides the printed form of the shift report, and the plants that use it build the grindability history of their own product.

12. The Troubleshooting of the Hard Grind: The Diagnostic Tree

When the mill suddenly grinds harder, the diagnostic tree of the file walks the engineer from the symptom to the cause in a fixed order:

• The clinker check: the free lime, the mineral composition and the microscopy of the sample: the colder-than-usual clinker, the high belite or the devitrified texture: the answer comes from the kiln section;
• The moisture check: the wet clinker from the summer cooler or the rainy storage: the moisture above 2% in the feed collapses the mill output and the classification: the drying balance before anything else;
• The media check: the ball charge level, the worn lifters and the liner profile: the media inspection after the moisture and the clinker are ruled out;
• The separator check: the rising bypass and the falling classification efficiency shift the energy to the coarse tail: the guide’s mill audit table links the bypass percentage to the expected energy penalty;
• The ventilation check: the plugged vents and the choked filters raise the mill temperature and coat the grinding media: the temperature log of the mill resolves the case;
• The aid check: the pump failure or the empty tank removes the chemical surface protection: the product agglomerates and the mill power climbs: the last check of the tree, and the cheapest fix of the week;

The tree saves the plant the expensive mistake of the immediate media change: the sequence of the checks follows the probability and the cost of each cause: the guide reports the field statistics of the mills that ran the tree: the clinker and the moisture causes outnumber the mechanical ones by a wide margin, which is good news because both are corrected without opening the mill.

The commissioning audit of a new mill is the same tree applied forward: the plant feeds the reference clinker, measures the achieved fineness against the design curve and computes the actual specific energy against the Bond estimate: the gap between the design Wi and the measured performance is decomposed into the separator bypass, the media grading and the ventilation: the audit report of the file is the acceptance document of the mechanical completion: the grindability guide thus serves the project day, the operating day and the audit day: three documents, one discipline.

13. Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between the grindability and the fineness?

The fineness is the result of the grinding, the grindability is the resistance of the material to the grinding: the fineness is measured on the product (the Blaine, the residue), the grindability on the material (the work index): the plant controls both: it measures the grindability to plan the mill, and the fineness to guarantee the product: the two meet in the specific energy of the shift.

Which fineness indices should the quality laboratory report daily?

The practical daily trio: the Blaine surface, the residue on the 45-micrometer sieve and the trend of the specific energy of the mill: the trio covers the surface, the coarse tail and the cost: the full distribution by laser diffraction joins the weekly reports and the new-product validation: the trio keeps the shift informed, the distribution keeps the research honest.

Why does the same clinker grind differently in the two plants of one company?

The mill circuit differences: the ball charge, the liner profile, the separator efficiency and the ventilation: the clinker may be identical and the mill behavior different: the work index is a property of the material, the specific energy is a property of the circuit: the guide compares the two plants by running the same sample in both circuits, the cleanest experiment of the interplant audit.

Does the finer cement always need more gypsum?

Usually yes: the finer cement exposes more aluminate surface to the sulfate in the first minutes and can set faster unless the gypsum is adjusted: the laboratory finds the optimum SO3 by the mortar tests at the increasing gypsum doses: the optimum of the fine cement commonly lies 0.3 to 0.5% SO3 higher than the optimum of the coarse product of the same clinker.

What is the economical fineness of the ordinary Portland cement?

For the common CEM I 42.5 production of the 2000s era, the economical window lies approximately between 330 and 380 m²/kg with the residue of 5 to 12% on the 45-micron sieve: inside the window the strength classes are met with the reasonable energy, the water demand stays friendly and the dispatch behaves: the plants stepping outside the window on the fine side pay the energy and the water bill: the guide keeps the window as the correction target.

14. Conclusion

The grindability of the cement: the bridge between the kiln, the mill and the client: the work index of the material, the Blaine of the product and the residue of the shift: the three numbers of the finish mill discipline: the guide of the 2002 series hands the engineer the method of the measurement, the tables of the industry and the routine of the floor: the result is the predictable product, the defended class and the controlled energy: the mill runs the clinker that the kiln delivers, and the laboratory watches the promise that the mill keeps.

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