Missions
Allow Fives FCB to keep a leading technical knowledge in the cement activity.
Ensure its autonomy for the conception of its equipment, the definition and the development of its own processes.
Ensure the technical assistance and the necessary expertise for the definition, the setting or the optimization of processes, and also the resolution of production difficulties.
Means and facilities
To reach its targets with success, the research center has its own pilot facilities, its own physical and chemical laboratories, all appropriated means for measuring, analyzing and testing.
Actions et Facts
Contribution to the research and to the development of new processes,
Development and setting of new equipment, such as:
TSV™ classifier
Horomill® mill
Rhodax® crusher
Precalciner and cyclones
Development of numerical simulation programs, in the field of the grinding (ball mills), of the fluid mechanics (two-phases flows), of the magnetism (magnetic classifying).
Assessment and technical support for each internal department and subsidiaries, as well as customers.
Feasibility studies and sizing on pilot plants facilities.
Chemical and physical analyses as well as specific measurements (fluid mechanics, mechanical stresses, vibrating analysis)
Co-operation with high schools and research centres (French and foreign universities), in the frame of training courses, or with our suppliers technical centres and customers ones.