Cement News tagged: Recent orders
Siwertell delivers road-mobile unloaders for cement-handling operations in Libya & Vietnam
Siwertell, part of Cargotec, has delivered two more of its 10 000 S road-mobile unloaders for cement unloading operations in Libya and Vietnam. The new trailer-based, diesel-powered machines are fitted with a double bellows system and dust filters and can handle cement at a rated capacity of 300tph. Following an order signed with Tenovar International Ltd in Malta in late June 2015, the firs...
Menzel's replacement motor ends downtime within three days at Cambridge plant
In November 2015 electric motor manufacturer Menzel Elektromotoren from Berlin ended a serious production interruption at a cement plant in Cambridge. After three days following the failure of both the mill drive and the existing reserve motor, the plant operators suddenly faced a full-scale production shutdown. On a Friday night, they turned to German motor manufacturer Menzel with a reques...
FLSmidth receives third O&M contract from Egyptian producer
FLSmidth has signed a contract with Arabian Cement Company (ACC) for operation and maintenance of the production lines at its cement plant located near the city of Suez in Egypt. The parties have agreed not to disclose the value of the contract, which covers five years of operation and maintenance of two production lines with a capacity of 6000tpd each. FLSmidth has been operating and maintai...
Sinoma signs contract with Egypt's South Valley Cement
Egypt-based South Valley Cement Co has signed an EPC contract for a grinding unit with Chinese firm Sinoma CDI, to enable its plant to use petcoke, with a grinding capacity of 50tph. Under the US$19.5m contract, the Chinese firm will also supply spare parts for two years, the company said in a bourse statement.
Loesche wins Vietnamese grinding order
Hoang Phat Vissai Group Co Ltd has placed an order for four Loesche mills via Sinoma for raw material and finish grinding. For grinding raw material to a fineness of 12 per cent R 90μ, two Loesche LM 60.6 mills are used with a capacity of 2 x 520tph and a gearbox power of 4600kW. Metal detectors and sealing air fans are also included in the scope of supply. The lead-time for the main compone...
Turkey: Askale orders KHD's COMFLEX roller press system for two cement plants
Askale Cimento has awarded KHD with an order for two new COMFLEX® grinding units at the Turkish cement producer's Akoluk and Bilecik plants. At the Akoluk works, the new COMFLEX system will be installed up stream of a new 100tph ball mill. Meanwhile, at the Bilecik plant the COMFLEX unit will allow Askale Cemento to increase existing capacity from 100tph to 210tph at 3800 blaine. KHD’s s...
FLSmidth receives CRH process and optimisation order
FLSmidth has been awarded a contract for process and quality optimisation of 17 cement plants recently acquired by the CRH Group using FLSmidth's ECS/ProcessExpert® and QCX/BlendExpert(TM) products. The order is the largest advanced process optimisation project awarded to FLSmidth and includes process optimisation of 12 kilns and 40 grinding mills, as well as quality optimisation of 14 raw mi...
FCT Combustion wins Ecuador order
FCT Combustion announced that HORMICRETO, Cuenca, Ecuador, has placed an order for two calciner burners and a hot gas generator for its swing mill application, for alternative liquid fuels firing, with a thermal capacity of 5.2 MW, including the complete the fuel pumping, heating and valve train. International orders Several big cement groups in other countries have also endorsed FCT combus...
ABB to supply Semen Bosowa Maros
ABB has won an order from Tianjin Cement Industry Design & Research Institute Co Ltd, a subsidiary of the Sinoma Group (China), for its variable-speed drive solution for a dual-pinion ball mill at the PT Semen Bosowa Maros cement plant in Indonesia. ABB was selected for that project because the end customer is satisfied with earlier deliveries for the first cement grinding line at the plant...
Emami places order for third Gebr Pfeiffer cement mill
Emami Cement Ltd has placed an order for a Gebr Pfeiffer grinding plant which will be installed in Odisha state, India. The contract includes an MVR 6000 C-6 with an installed drive power of 6700kW. This mill will be capable of producing 335tph of OPC. The grinding plant will be designed to also allow fly ash cement and GGBS to be ground to a fineness of 3800cm²/g and 4000cm²/g according to B...
FLSmidth announces new orders in the Americas
FLSmidth has announced three new orders at cement plants in Canada, Colombia and Bolivia. Lehigh Hanson Materials Ltd Lehigh Hanson Materials Ltd, owned by HeidelbergCement, has awarded a contract to FLSmidth for an OK™ 30-4 cement vertical mill to meet the increasing demand for cement in Canada. The mill will be installed at Lehigh Hanson's existing Edmonton cement plant located 13km ...
Estanda completes ball mill renovation in Saudi
Estanda has successfully completed the commissioning of a two-compartment cement ball mill for a cement producer in Saudi Arabia. The project was carried out on Cement Mill 2 (with a diameter of 5m), operating in parallel with the Cement Mill 1 (CM1), which had previously been renovated and updated by Estanda in 2013. The renovation of CM2 affected all the interior steel components of the m...
Two Loesche mills ordered for PT Semen Baturaja
Tianjin Cement Industry Design & Research Institute Co Ltd has ordered two LM 53.3+3 CS Loesche clinker grinding mills for PT Semen Baturaja in Indonesia. Both of the mills have a capacity of 175tph with material ground to a fineness of 3400 Blaine. Each mill is fitted with a gearbox with a power of 4200kW. The leadtime for the main components of the mill is nine months and the gearboxes are...
India: Petron Engineering wins contract from Ramco
Mumbai-based Petron Engineering Construction Ltd has informed the local stock exchange earlier this week that it has received a Letter of Intent from Ramco Cements for civil and mechanical works relating to the upgrade of Ramco’s Line 1 and a captive power plant at its Jayanthipuram works in the Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh, India. The contract is valued at INR225m (US$3.4m). Ramco Ceme...
Loesche mill series for Batisöke project in Turkey
Batisöke Söke Cimento Sanayii has ordered an entire line of vertical roller mills (VRM) from Loesche as part of a new kiln line project at the Söke cement plant in Turkey. For raw material grinding, a Loesche LM 56.4 has been ordered with a capacity of 500tph and a product fineness of 12 per cent R at 90μm. The gearbox of this mill has a power of 3400kW. Magnetic separators, metal detectors...
Fives to supply Pillard burners to Siam Cement
Fives has recently been awarded a new contract by Siam Cement Group (SCG) to supply two Pillard NovaFlam® burners to equip the cement kilns at the Taluang plant in Thailand. This is the first time SCG has selected the Pillard NovaFlam® technology. The decision was based on Fives' expertise in Thailand, the equipment supplier highlighted. Fives added: "A multi-channel burner for rotary kilns...