Diwakar Mishra
Optimization Specialist
Optimization specialist with a long record in the construction materials industry. ISO 14001, safety management systems, root cause analysis, minerals and continuous improvement. Trained with FLSmidth.
About Future Cement
The performance measure for cement plants.
Future Cement is a group of European cement process engineers. We measure how a plant performs against the best plants of the same configuration, every day, and show the first thing to fix. The same engineers write the books, build the Specialized Tools and train the teams.
Main headquartersC/ Palacio Valdés, 1 – Plt. 1 Dcha, 33002 Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Germany · partner officeAlfonsstraße 44, 52070 Aachen, Germany
What plants use us for
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Performance dashboards
A few readings of the day in, more than a hundred figures out: where the plant stands against the best plants of the same type, what the gap costs, and the first thing to fix.
5 dashboards today → 🔧Specialized Tools
The checks a process audit team makes, as Excel files the plant keeps: graded results, what-if, and what to do first.
See the files → 📖Books
Written from the plant floor. Each book opens its dashboard and its exam questions for a year.
See the books → 🎓Training and the CEM exam
Questions from real plant situations for cement engineers, and a full timed Certified Energy Manager exam with every chapter.
Open the question bank →Why plants trust the figures
Compared like with like
A kiln is compared with kilns of the same number of stages, strings and cooler; a mill with mills of the same system grinding the same cement. Never with an average of everything.
Published references, named
GCCA, EU BAT conclusions, EN 197-1, ASTM C150, GSO and the GHG Protocol. Every grade says whose it is.
The plant's data stays the plant's
Figures are kept under the account that entered them. No plant is ever named in a comparison.
Built by people who ran plants
More than 140 production lines audited between the team. The questions the dashboards ask are the ones an audit team asks on site.
The team
Process, pyroprocessing, alternative fuels, cement chemistry, energy and materials handling.
Philip Halden
Pyroprocess Specialist
Calciners, preheaters, burners, SO3 cycles, NOx and alternative fuels. Delivers training on every aspect of cement pyroprocessing and writes know-how papers on SO3 cycle drivers and on the design limits of calciners and preheaters.
Payam Pourvash
Technical Manager
Three decades in industrial optimization, product development and sustainability: sixteen years as a senior technical consultant and eight in operations management, across Europe and the Americas.
Rick D.
Process Engineer and Production Leader
Eighteen years in cement. Alternative fuels across many plants and expert control systems. Has trained and coached more than a hundred process engineers, control room operators and shift foremen.
Mark Jelf
Engineering Manager, Material Handling
Chief engineer with more than 25 years leading EPC projects in cement, mining, metals and biomass: bulk handling, crushing and screening, storage and reclaim, from feasibility to commissioning.
When the figures point further
Some plants ask the same engineers to look at the plant itself: the heat, the power, the fuel, the product. Tell us what the figures show.