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How AI Is recasting cement manufacturing

Washington Post May 5, 2026

By solving chemical puzzles and optimizing chaotic processes, AI is transforming one of the world’s oldest and largest industries.

Cement is one of the earliest heavy industries moving to scale AI in production. For decades, plants have used advanced control systems to manage complex, energy-intensive processes, and those systems are now evolving into modern machine learning tools. In this report, Kathryn Clay of Washington Post Intelligence, examines how cement manufacturers are utilizing AI to further refine the highly technical production process.

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