BRAND IDENTITY GUIDE VERSION 1.0 | ISSUED JANUARY 2020 To produce cement, materials like shale, limestone, pyrite and sand are ground into a fine powder then funneled into a silo before being fed into a kiln. One of the biggest building supplies and cement manufacturers in the Philippines, with factories all over the country, had an issue with shale hanging on the silo wall. THE PROBLEM HUMIDITY HAMPERS OPERATIONS The Philippines has very high humidity, and the moisture in the air would solidify the cement materials, clog the machines and bring production to a halt. For a particular vessel, the company needed a continuous rate of flow of 25-30 tons an hour. With other vessels in the plant, they had tried knockers and vibration motors. They also had factory workers hammer the silo

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