Our quality control laboratory is operating 24 hours a day with three rotating shifts. Its main mission is to control the raw material, raw meal, kiln feed, clinker and cement production on hourly basis and report directly to the production departments in order to minimize the standard deviation of the results during production, which leads to minimize the percentage of the non-conforming product.

CN has the most advanced technology for research and analysis such as XRF & XRD (with a Claiss machine) from ARL, microscope with all the accessories (sample preparation, polish, software) etc... In addition the laboratory is equipped to perform the wet analysis for the ASTM C114 and EN 196-2. An oven up to 2000 °C was also installed to control the burnability of the raw material and to evaluate the raw mix variation.

The physical laboratory is divided into 2 sections. One section is for European tests, and the second is for the American (ASTM) tests. The environmental condition of both sections is controlled with continuous measurement to fulfill the requirements of both standards.

This laboratory is well equipped to control the quality of the aggregates and sand and to detect the influence of the concrete component on the concrete quality. In addition this concrete laboratory is available to support CN customers and other interested parties.