Hemant Roge has over 22 years of experience in the cement industry across multiple roles and geographies. He currently works as a Mechanical Engineer for Lafarge Asia Sdn Bhd in Malaysia, providing maintenance, troubleshooting, and technical support to Lafarge cement plants across several Asian countries. Prior to this, he held engineering and management positions for various cement and industrial companies, gaining experience in project execution, plant operations, and marketing.

1. HEMANT RAGHUNATH ROGE
LAFARGE ASIA SDN BHD,
WISMA LAFARGE, NO.2 JALAN KILANG,
PETALING JAYA, SELANGOR 46050
MALAYSIS
Tel: 0060 123472696 email: hemant.roge@lafarge.com
BUSINESS PROFILE
Overall 22 years of Cement Industrial Experience in various roles & capacities (in Middle East, Africa, Far
East, China, India & Bangladesh). 6years of Project engineering/execution/commissioning, 9 years of
Industrial Services & Troubleshooting, 3 years of Operations & Maintenance & 4 years in Marketing &
Sales.
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
LAFARGE INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE CENTER, KUALA LUMPUR, SINCE- 01.01.2010 TILL
DATE
COMPANY PROFILE:
One of the Cement Majors in the world with operations in 70 countries. Lafarge is a multinational
company into Cement & Aggregates. The Asia Pacific operations consists of Malaysia, China, Indonesia,
Korea, Bangladesh and many other countries. It is pioneer in Cement Industry with one the safest cement
plant operations and thoroughly caring attitude for its employees and stake holders.
POSITION- MECHANICAL ENGINEER, FROM 01.01.2010
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Engineering, Project Execution, Maintenance, Troubleshooting & Installation, Technical Analysis, Operation of all
equipments involved in modern dry Process & Wet process Cement Plants.
• Plant Audit, Major Opex & Capex Review, Plant Maintenance management, Equipment Integrity, Safety ,
Training of plant personnel, Shutdown support and Troubleshooting. Area of operation; all Lafarge cement
plants in Malaysia, Phillipines, Vietnam, Bangladesh and India. Effective usage of design and analysis tools
developed by Polysius, FLS and Lafarge technical fraternity.
• Exposure and implementation of various maintenance softwares, training courses and safety management
methods developed by Lafarge, FLSmidth and Polysius.
SOFT SKILLS :
• Strong believer in connecting with people at all levels for successful business and mutual growth
• Leading and directing plant maintenance managers to adhere to group standards.
• Management of Industrial Fixed Cost for maintenance, close track, budget control and adherence to target
MCI set by management.
• Change Management approach, based on situation and organizational demand.
• Effective use of CMM and Maximo.
• Control and management of inspection, planning and scheduling functions.
• Imparting technical trainings to Managers and frontline managers.
NETWORKING:
Regular participation in technical community meetings for presentation of new experiences and learning & sharing the
same with group colleagues. Have authored and presented two documents:
• Dynamic Seal design for combined guard for Combiflex gearbox gear guard.
• Kiln shell protection buy sacrificial layer.

2. BRIEF LIST OF ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR IN LAFARGE:
• Successful sourcing and development for Cement Mill girth gear & pinions from alternative source
at Lafarge Jojobera Plant savings 60 % cost and 50% time.
• Lafarge Arasmeta: Elimination of Mill vibrations and innovative repair of mill head resulting in Capex
savings and capitalization for continuous three years
• Lafarge Surma, Bangladesh: Cement Slide shoe bearing major overhaul and turn around. Rotax kiln
trouble shooting(elimination of kiln vibrations), Atox mill & Coolax Cooler overhaul.
• Lafarge Sonadih India: Major overhauls of Peiffer Mill, Fuller Cooler, Mechanical Audit Limestone Stacker
Reclaimer to Clinkerization, Replacement of Kiln supporting blocks, kiln alignment, axial thrust setting,
trouble shooting of VRM.
• Lafarge Jojobera : Successful major repair of both trunions of ball mill with in record time and cost savings.
• Lafarge Surma : Successful repair of kiln shell in record time and limited resources.
• Lafarge Langkawi : Successful emergency support for Kiln Support roller failure.
• Lafarge Vietnam: Cement Mill central drive troubleshooting.
• Lafarge Malaysia langkawi: Repair of Flender Combiflex Gear box 4.8MW.
• Lafarge Phillipines, Teresa Plant: Technical Audit of VRM gearbox, Preheater, Crusher, Kiln.
• Lafarge Rawang: Kiln mechanical integrity, Limetsone & Shale ESPs, Ball Mills.
• Lafarge Kanthan: Kiln & Cooler mechanical integrity & Cement mill bearing overhaul assistance.
• Lafarge Batangas: MHI Central drive overhaul
MAJOR TROUBLE SHOOTING, BREAKDOWN & MAINTENANCE SERVICES ATTENDED WITH
PAST EMPLOYER- L&T-FLSMIDTH: (from April 1998 to July2001)
• ACC, Madhukunda: Supervision of Refurbishment of RC 12 Mechanical Packer.
• Lafarge Cement, Bilaspur: Control of vibrations for Coal Mill drive, Re-alignment & welding of Kiln Girth
Gear.
• ACC, Kymore: Supervision of Overhaul of Atox Coal Mill & Weld repair, boring/reaming and re-alignment of
TUMS 56 Raw Mill on behalf of L&T.
• DLF Cement: Machining, re-alignment & blue matching of Slide ring & Slide shoes for UMS 46 and
overhauling Dynamic Seperator for Atox 42 Raw Mill.
• Gujarat Sidhee Cement: Boring, Reaming & re-alignment of Kiln girth gear.
• Grasim Cement: Re-alignment of kiln Girth Gear and Axial thrust adjustment of Kiln support Rollers.
• Madras Cement : Supervision of Over haul of Coal Mill ESP.
• Tata Refractories: Rotary Cooler breakdown support roller & bearing replacement, re-alignment, axial
thrust adjustment of rotary kiln & Cooler.
• Jaypee Rewa: Re-alignment of all the kiln support rollers & bearings, girth gear shimming and axial thrust
adjustment. Overhaul of Coal Mill ESP, Cooler ESP, Raw Mill ESP.
• ACC- Chanda: Supervision of Raw Mill diaphragm shifting and installation supplied through FLS.
• Binani Cement: Overhaul of Atox Raw Mill 42.5.
• Binani Cement, Dubai: Girth Gear inspection and contact adjustment, Cement Silo extraction stabilization.
• Gujarat State Fertilizers: Trouble shooting of Granulator & Dryer alignment.
• Cement Corporation of India, Rajbhan: Trouble shooting and guidance on Raw Mill (Ball Mill) and kiln
girth gear vibrations and remedial action.

3. Employer : F.L. Smidth-Larsen & Toubro Limited, India ( Indian Engineering Major in
Turnkey Projects & Consultancy in Cement, Petrochemical, Power, Fertilser and other
core industries).
Duration: From 06.09.93 to March 1998.
Position held: Started as Assist. Project Engineer for Cement Plants & Allied Machinery Division (L&T – F.L. Smidth
joint technical venture) till May 1998 was promoted to Sales and Services division.
Job Responsibilities: Project Engineering & Execution, Co-ordination with Procurement, Engg and site, Liasoning
with Client, Consultants, Principals (FLS), Contractors & HO, Erection Supervision and troubleshooting. Ensure
compliance of OEMs and other equipment supplier’s procedures. Close follow up on detailing during erection and
commissioning. Follow up with HO for receipts and deliveries of equipments on time. Follow up with customers for
release of GRNs, etc.
MAJOR PROJECTS HANDLED FOR L&T FLS:
• Tata Refractories Limited (Nov. 93 to Jan. 95): 100 tpd Dolomite Rotary kiln with Rotary Cooler and Hot
ESP.
• DLF Cement ( FLS designed 1.5 Million Tonnes per annum Dry Process Plant) (Feb. 95 to Aug. 95).
• Jaypee Bela Cement ( FLS designed 1.7 Million Tonnes per annum Dry Process Plant)(Aug.95 to Aug.97).
• L&T Cement, Tadipatri (FLS designed 2 million tones per annum Dry Proces Plant)( Aug.97 to May 98).
Employer : Binani Cement Factory LLC, Dubai
From : July 2005 till Dec 2009.
Company Profile: Leading Industrial giant from India diversified into Cement, Zinc, Copper, Fibres and
other core Engineering activities having Slag as well as Clinker grinding unit with 500,000 TPA capacity
expanding to 1,000,000 TPA in Jebel Ali near Dubai.
Job Responsibilities: Incharge of Erection, commissioning and Fabrication & later date Shift operations, of
F.L.Smidth designed Clinker grinding machinery (UMS 42 X 11), Sepax Seperator and other auxiliaries.
Liasoning with OEMs, contractors and higher management.
Employer: Nigerian Foundries Limited, Lagos
From : January 2004 to May 2005.
Position held: Project & After Sales Services Manager
Company Profile: West Africa’s leading foundry offering cast iron, cast steel, heat resistant castings, wear
resistant castings for Cement plants, construction companies, quarries, oil companies and telecom
industry. The company is existing in Nigeria since 1965 and has gradually expanded into offering
technical solutions and specialized castings well backed by state of art manufacturing facilities &
laboratories supported by ISO 9001-2000 quality system.
Employer: The Consultants, India (Indian representatives for Refratechnik Germany, Brokk
Bricking Solutions Inc. USA & Brokk AB, Sweden, Pillard Thermotechnique, France
Duration: From 08.08.2001 to 31.12.2003
Position held: Marketing Manager

4. Educational Qualifications:
.BS Mechanical Engg. Washington Global University, Center- Dubai. –year 2008
· 4 year -Diploma In Mechanical Engineering (Industry Integrated) from L&T Institute of Technology- year
1993.
Trainings & Certifications Attended:
• Lafarge IPC – Lead Level 3 Expert
• Industrial Health & Safety.
• Finite Element Analysis, Solidworks Engineering Design & Simulation.
• RCA Software
• Vibration Analysts ISO Level-1 Certified & Level-2 Attended
• TOEIC (925 out of 990)- PROFFESSIONAL ENGLISH
• MS- office, SAP & MS -Project.
• Soft skills- Peak performance leadership, Team Building & Coaching
• Refractory Technology from Refra-technik.
• Commissioning & Troubleshooting of Brokk demolition Machines in Sweden.
Extra Curricular Activities:
Cricket, Reading and Listening to Good Music.