Quality

Cementos Balboa was founded under the strictest responsibility a company can have, first a development program, and secondly a quality and environmental program. The complete production programme and economic profitability is joined to the same environmental protection and management excellence project.

In order to the achieve Quality’s specific aims, Cementos Balboa has the latest available technology:

1. Two PGNA online raw material analysers with which the material is analysed (on the conveyer belts). This is done continuously in real time, allowing for fast actions, thus improving quality by minimising material variability.
   One is located at the reception of the Pre-homogenisation park to study the raw materials. This allows for the optimisation of the quarry mining, depositing a more homogenous material in terms of chemical composition when comparing with other methods.
   The second one is located before the material milling, allowing the proper dosing of materials into the mill, thus minimising the chemical variability of the material.

2. An X-ray analyser with 9 nonochromers and a goniometer to measure almost all elements in the Periodic System. It provides information on the elements in a material. It also includes an X-ray diffraction system to determine key minerals in the cement world.

   
   
   
   
   

3. A Central Control Room where the complete cement production process is supervised.
   A series of programmes, based on spreadsheets containing all of the raw materials´, intermediate products´ and end- products´ quality data.

   

4. Chemical Laboratory: Here the necessary cement and raw material composition tests are performed for production.

5. Physical-Mechanical Laboratory: This is for the different applicable standards, with different devices to determine the shrinking time and resistances.