Cement News tagged: Recent orders
Recent orders for Fritz & Macziol from Holcim Russia
Following the implementation of the VAS logistics solution in two cement plants belonging to Holcim Russia, Fritz & Macziol has strengthened its position in the Russian market. VAS systems have been in operation at the Volsk Holcim plant since summer 2012, and now the Shurovskyi plant at Kolomna is following suit. Holcim is also beginning to implement real time monitoring in the form of VAS...
Holcim Services (South Asia) signs fleet management deal, India
Holcim Services (South Asia) Ltd, a unit of the Holcim Group, will deploy the Trimble® trako Fleet Management and Visual Cargo solutions in their outbound logistics fleet that transports cement to various destinations across India. The Trimble solution will provide Holcim better visibility into its transport logistics operations to help increase fleet productivity, improve operational effici...
Gebr Pfeiffer wins Iraq grinding order
Sinoma (Suzhou) Construction, acting as general contractor for GRD Cement Plant Company Tainall’s new kiln line, has once again placed an order for an MPS 5000 B vertical roller mill for raw material grinding. The grinding plant will be set up in the GRD's 5000tpd cement line located near the town of Sulaimaniah in northern Iraq. The MPS vertical roller mill to be supplied is designed for ...
New laboratory automation system for Wotan Zement, Germany
For the quality monitoring and control of their cement products, Portlandzementwerk Wotan decided to install a new laboratory automation system from ThyssenKrupp Polysius. As from spring 2013, the POLAB ACT will replace the existing POLAB system which has been in service at the company's Üxheim plant since 1993. In addition, a pneumatic tube dispatch station for cement is being installed...
Ambuja Cement selects Polysius grinding technology
Ambuja Cement Ltd of India has selected ThyssenKrupp Polysius as the supplier of grinding equipment for their Sankrail plant. A POLYCOM high-pressure grinding roll and a SEPOL-PC separator will be combined with an existing ball mill to form a combi grinding system for a cement production rate of 230tph. Ambuja Cement is 50.3 per cent-owned by the Holcim Group.
Russian order for FLSmidth
FLSmidth has won a contract worth approximately DKK200m from the Russian company Kaluga Cement Plant LLC to supply additional equipment for its cement plant currently under construction in the Kaluga province, some 300km southwest of the Russian capital of Moscow. This contract is an extension of the contract which FLSmidth won in 2011 from Kaluga Cement Plant LLC for the supply of a complet...
Gebr Pfeiffer to supply VRM to Scantogo
Sinoma-owned Chengdu Design & Research Institute of Building Materials Industry Co Ltd, the general contractor for Scantogo's new 5000tpd cement production line in Togo, has awarded Gebr Pfeiffer SE the contract for an MPS 5000 B vertical roller mill for raw material grinding. The new MPS raw mill for the HeidelbergCement-owned subsidiary will have a rated capacity of 410tph and has been de...
Qatar awards Line No. 5 consultancy contract
Qatar National Cement Co (QNCC) has signed a consultancy services’ contract with Belgium’s Basse Sambre for the construction of its fifth cement line. Under the terms of the contract, Basse Sambre will prepare the global tender documents for a turnkey plant of 5000tpd or 7500tpd, parallel to the current lines no. 2-4 at Umm-Bab. At present, QNCC produces 14,000tpd, sufficient to meet to...
Askale Cimento orders first vertical roller mill
Askale Cimento Sanayii TAS is currently building a new 4000tpd clinker production line in Gümüshane, located about 100km south of Trabzon near the Black Sea, Turkey. Ankara-based Sintek Mining Machinery Industry Construction is handling the entire project execution and on-site coordination of the project. Two Loesche vertical roller mills will grind raw materials and coal while more recent...
Loesche mill increases lignite dust production by 0.5Mta
Germany’s Loesche GmbH commissioned the new coal mill, type LM 28.3D at RWE Power AG’s Ville/Berrenrath plant. The new vertical roller mill will cover the increasing demand for lignite dust. Loesche not only delivered the technology and complete process equipment but also prepared the complete mill building as the general contractor. The new mill is expected to increase the production of...
Dangote orders 500 heavy-duty trucks from Beiqi Foton
Nigerian cement producer Dangote Cement has awarded the contract for 500 Foton-Daimler heavy-duty trucks to Beiqi Foton, one of China’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers.
Wärtsilä to service United Cement Co's power plant in Nigeria
Wärtsilä has signed a three year Operations & Maintenance (O&M) agreement covering the United Cement Company of Nigeria Ltd (UniCem) power plant. This is an extension to the current three year O&M contract expiring in 2012. The power plant provides electricity to United Cement Company's Mfamosing cement plant, located north east of Calabar in Nigeria's Cross River State. It has a cement capa...
Italcementi awards Rezzato cement upgrade to KHD
The Italcementi Group recently awarded KHD a contract to upgrade and redevelop its Brescia Rezzato plant in Italy. The upgraded plant, situated the in environmentally sensitive Lake Garda region, will have to adhere to very strict emissions, noise and other environmental requirements, while simultaneously ensuring highest levels of availability and low investment costs. Scope of supply I...
Oracle signs MoU with Thatta for coal supply, Pakistan
Oracle Coalfields PLC, the UK coal developer of a lignite mineral property located in the southeastern desert of the Sindh Province, Pakistan, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Thatta Cement Company Ltd for the proposed supply of coal from the mine that Oracle is developing in Block VI of the Thar Coalfield. The MoU, which is between Oracle’s 80 per cent-owned subsidiary Sindh C...
New order for Gebr Pfeiffer in Colombia
Cementos Tequendama has ordered an MPS 140 BK coal mill coal mill from Gebr Pfeiffer, Inc, a subsidiary of Gebr Pfeiffer SE. Cementos Tequendama’s plant is located in the outskirts of Suesca, Cundinamarca, Colombia (located approximately one hour north of Bogota). Currently, the plant currently has a production capacity of 300,000tpa. The new vertical roller mill ordered from Gebr Pfeiffer i...
ABB wins order for new Turkish cement plant
ABB has received an order to provide electrification, automation and drive solutions for Medcem’s greenfield cement plant project in Turkey. The contract was awarded in July 2012. The new plant will be located in Mersin, on the Mediterranean coast. With an estimated 10,000tpd of clinker, it will have the largest production capacity in Turkey. Production start-up is planned for March 2014. ...