Meet Oswal at Cemtech Asia 2026

Oswal Industries will attend Cemtech Asia 2026, the regional cement conference and exhibition running 14-17 June 2026 at the Avani+ Riverside Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. If you are attending, our kiln-sealing team would welcome a conversation about false air, fuel cost, and kiln reliability on your specific kiln configuration.

About Cemtech Asia 2026

Cemtech Asia is the region's leading cement-industry conference, organised by Cemtech in partnership with International Cement Review (the publisher of ICR magazine) [1]. The event brings together cement producers, process-equipment OEMs, technology providers, consultants, and operations leadership from across South, South-East, and East Asia. The format combines a two-day technical conference (papers, panels, and case studies), an exhibition floor for equipment and service providers, structured networking sessions, and an optional cement-plant tour at the end of the programme. The 2026 edition lands at the Avani+ Riverside Hotel in Bangkok over 14-17 June, with the conference programme spanning the middle two days and the plant tour on the closing day [1].

The headline theme for 2026 is "Decarbonising the Asian Cement Sector: manufacturing excellence and the circular economy", which sets the lens across the programme. Expect substantive coverage on alternative fuels (refuse-derived fuel, biomass co-firing, and the operational implications for kiln stability), thermal-efficiency programmes (preheater optimisation, cooler upgrades, and recuperation gains), low-clinker cements and supplementary cementitious materials, digitalisation and advanced process control, carbon capture pilots at Asian plants, and the wider global cement industry trajectory toward 2030 emissions targets. Regional context matters: Asia accounts for over 80% of world cement production, so the technology pathways debated here translate directly into the volume that decides the sector's emissions arc.

What we will be talking about

Our focus at Cemtech Asia 2026 is the lever we work on every day: cutting false air and the fuel it wastes. False air ingress is one of the most underestimated efficiency losses in cement plant operations, and it sits directly upstream of the decarbonisation and circular-economy themes this year's programme is built around. Lower air ingress means lower specific fuel consumption, lower ID-fan load, and lower CO2 per tonne of clinker.

Three operational threads we expect to come up repeatedly in conversations on the floor. First, the economics of hood-area sealing on precalciner lines, where every 1% reduction in false air at the kiln hood lifts secondary-air temperature by roughly 8-12°C and saves 1.5-2.5 kcal/kg clinker. Second, sealing reliability under alternative-fuel firing, where chlorine and sulfur build-up in the inlet zone shortens conventional seal life and changes the maintenance cadence (see kiln seal inspection cadence and methodology for the inspection frame). Third, sealing scope for DRI and lime producers attending the event, where the kiln-hood interface logic carries across to the DRI plant sealing configuration with adjusted thermal and chemical-attack profiles.

Come and talk to us about:

• Inlet and outlet kiln sealing, including the Duplex Kiln Sealing System and Integrated False Air Control.
• Retrofits during scheduled shutdowns, handled by our installation and retrofit team.
• False air and heat-balance audits, scoped through our engineering-consulting service.

If you want the technical background before we meet, our guide to false air in cement kilns covers the measurement method, the energy cost, and the control options, and the acceptable false air percentage benchmarks set out where a healthy plant should sit section by section.

Who from Oswal will be there

Our Cemtech Asia delegation is led by senior members of the engineering-consulting team, with the kiln-sealing applications group on the booth across the exhibition hours. The mix is deliberate: the consulting team can talk through false-air audits, heat balances, and retrofit scoping at the level of detail a plant engineer needs, and the applications group can answer the seal-selection, installation-window, and reliability questions that come up once a programme is being costed. If you want to talk specifics on a particular kiln, the most useful preparation is to bring a recent O2 traverse, the current seal type and vintage at the hood and inlet, and a sense of your next planned shutdown window; we can do a credible first-pass scope in a single meeting on that information.

Event details

Let us meet in Bangkok

We would rather have a focused, useful conversation than a generic pitch. Tell us your kiln configuration, your current false air baseline, and where you suspect the ingress is, and we will come to the meeting prepared with the relevant sealing and audit options.

To set up a time at Cemtech Asia 2026, talk to us or request a quote and mention the event in your message. Walk-ins to the booth are welcome through the exhibition hours, but a pre-booked slot gets you the consulting-team time and a prepared conversation, not a queue.