The 51st Cement Symposium Held... Exchange of Carbon Neutral Technologies

350 Industry Executives and Overseas Experts Participate
Ssangyong C&E, Hanil Cement, and Others Present 15 Papers

The Korea Cement Association announced on the 19th that it held the "51st Cement Symposium" over two days starting from the 18th at the Alpensia Resort in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province.

Hyun-Jun Lee, President of the Korea Cement Association (fourth from the left in the front row), is taking a commemorative photo at the "51st Cement Symposium" held on the 18th at Alpensia Resort in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province.
[Photo by Korea Cement Association]

About 350 participants attended this symposium, including executives and employees from nine domestic cement companies, overseas cement industry experts from Europe and Japan, and related academia.

In his opening remarks, Lee Hyun-jun, Chairman of the Korea Cement Association, stated, "The papers presented at the Cement Symposium, which has contributed to growing as a platform for academic and industry information exchange over the past half-century, have steadily improved in both quality and quantity. Carbon neutrality and reducing environmental impact are our top priorities that must be addressed to achieve results for the happiness and prosperity of future society, despite difficult management conditions such as a sharp decline in cement demand, continuous increases in manufacturing costs, and market constraints due to the expanded use of recycled resources, in order to transform into an eco-friendly cement industry."

Lee Cheol-gyu, a member of the National Assembly and chairman of the Industry, Trade, Small and Medium Enterprises Committee, said in his congratulatory speech, "Thanks to the Cement Symposium fulfilling its role as a platform for information exchange, cement industry professionals have come together to consider the development of the industry, enabling the cement industry to serve as a national key industry and a fundamental construction material industry. If we also work together on the era’s priority tasks such as carbon neutrality and environmental protection, we will be able to find solutions."

During this symposium, a total of 15 papers were presented, including Ssangyong C&E’s "Study on the Firing Properties and Mineral Characteristics of Low-Heat Cement Clinker Using Limestone-Substitute Non-Carbonate Raw Materials," Hanil Cement’s "Synthesis and Basic Property Evaluation of Calcium Silicate Cement Using Industrial Byproducts," and the Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering & Technology’s "Basic Research on the Application of Bottom Ash as a Cement Supplementary Material."

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