Hippo Cement Ltd

17/07/2025

17/07/2025

🏙️ A 1929 mansion stood in the path of Torre Reforma’s foundation. Rather than demolishing it, the entire structure was moved intact.

The mansion was shifted 18 meters with hydraulic jacks and steel rails, kept off-site during excavation, then returned and integrated into the final design.

Behind the mansion is Torre Reforma, a 246-meter tower with Latin America’s first exposed load-bearing concrete walls. Built with high-performance concrete, engineered for seismic resilience and structural precision.

This project shows what material innovation and engineering vision can do. Explore more bold and inspiring projects: cmx.to/4gKETfz

02/06/2025

✅ We are committed to fostering a workplace where health and safety come first. Our culture embodies this commitment and guides our actions daily.

We reinforce this commitment through initiatives like , which drives us toward a workplace with zero injuries. Additionally, we adhere to international standards such as ISO 45001, ensuring a structured approach to identifying, managing, and improving health and safety performance.

By integrating these principles into everything we do, we continue to build a safer, more resilient work environment for all.

29/03/2025

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29/03/2025

🌊 The Mirador’s textured precast concrete panels mimic the rugged stone of Barcelona’s port, allowing the structure to blend seamlessly with its surroundings. Its post-tensioned concrete structure opens fluid, expansive spaces, ensuring strength without compromising design.

More than a material, is a tool for shaping spaces that connect with nature while enduring the test of time and the elements. Located at the meeting point of land and sea, the Mirador shows the relationship between architecture and nature. It was also recognized as a finalist in ’s 2024 Building Award.

Photo credits: José Hevia

29/03/2025

Recently, the first building of the El Biar Office Building Project, constructed by , was successfully topped out. The project is located in , Algeria, where complex surroundings and strict traffic control are present. During the construction phase, the team implemented strict quality control measures for key processes such as concrete placing and formwork setting, ensuring precision and stability in the structural work. The adoption of the integral formwork system optimized construction techniques, improved efficiency, and shortened the project timeline while maintaining high-quality standards. Upon completion, the project will become a new landmark in the region, providing modern office and living spaces for local government departments and contributing to the area's economic development.

28/11/2024

28/11/2024

26/11/2024

Crushing, stacking, and reclaiming of raw materials

The limestone is crushed in the first crusher called a jaw crusher and then fed into the second crusher called an impact crusher with mixing of clays to reduce particle size below 50mm. The discharged raw mix (limestone 70%, clays 30%) is fed onto a belt conveyor and passed across a bulk material analyzer. The raw mix is fed into a circular storage unit called a raw mix storage. Then, the mix is extracted transversely from the stockpile by reclaimers and conveyed to a raw mill bin called the raw mix bin for grinding.

The other raw materials that are used in cement manufacturing, called additives, are high purity limestone, sand and iron ore. The high purity limestone is crushed in a lone in jaw crusher and then crushed more in a secondary crusher to reduce the size to completely pass through a 50mm sieve. Then, it is stacked by a limestone stacker into a longitudinal storage unit called the limestone storage stockpile. Finally, the limestone is extracted transversely from the stockpile by reclaimer and conveyed to a raw mill bin, called the limestone bin, for grinding.

CO2 and cement

Why does the manufacture of cement produce CO2?
Cement manufacturing is the source of 5% of global CO2 emissions. The cement industry is a natural producer of CO2:

• 60% of emissions are due to the transformation of raw materials at high temperatures (the "decarbonation" of limestone)

• 40% result from the combustion required to heat the cement kilns to 1500°

26/11/2024

Manufacturing process



From the limestone quarry to the delivery of the end product, follow every step in the cement manufacturing process.

Step 1: Mining



The cement manufacturing process starts from the mining of raw materials that are used in cement manufacturing, mainly limestone and clays. A limestone quarry is inside the plant area and a clays quarry is as far from the plant area as 25 km. The limestone is excavated from open cast mines after drilling and blasting and loaded onto dumpers which transport the materials and unload into hoppers of limestone crushers. The clays are excavated from open cast mines and loaded onto dumpers which transport the materials and unload into open yard storage. Then it is transported by trucks and unloaded into the hopper of a clay crusher. They are three types of clay used in cement manufacturing, namely silty clay, Zafarana clay, and Kaolin.

Other raw materials are used to control the kiln feed mix design, namely sand, and iron ore. The sand and iron ore are transport from outside the plant (from different suppliers) by trucks and unloaded into open yard piles, called sand and iron ore piles.