Cement News tagged: Recent orders

Fives to supply FCB Horomill® to Cementos Moctezuma

20 October 2023, Published under Cement News

With 14 machines already installed in Mexico, Cementos Moctezuma SA de CV has once again selected the FCB Horomill ® technology to increase the cement production capacity of its Tepetzingo plant.   Cementos Moctezuma and Fives FCB recently signed a contract for the supply of one FCB Horomill 3800 grinding mill and associated supervisory services for erection and commissioning.  The c...

NEXE dd selects Rockwell Automation as a digitalisation partner

19 October 2023, Published under Cement News

Rockwell Automation is introducing changes in its production processes through digitalisation that will offer Croatian cement producer NEXE dd additional value on its path towards further reductions in its carbon footprint.   In combination with using alternative raw materials and fuels, the company is achieving these goals by leveraging the FactoryTalk ® Analytics™ Pavilion8 ®  model pr...

thyssenkrupp Polysius wins order for Cimpor Ghana's calcined clay plant

13 October 2023, Published under Cement News

Cimpor Ghana Ltd has commissioned thyssenkrupp Polysius GmbH for its new calcined clay project Cimpor Ghana Ltd has commissioned thyssenkrupp Polysius GmbH with the construction of a flash activator for clay activation in Tema, Ghana. The plant will have the world's largest newly-built flash activator for clay with a production capacity of 1280tpd.   Once operational in 202...

FCT Combustion wins North American order

13 October 2023, Published under Cement News

FCT Combustion  has recently commissioned a complete combustion system for one of the largest clinker lines in the USA. The pyroprocessing line uses natural gas as the main fuel. The scope supplied and commissioned by FCT included: • Gyro-Therm™ burner with trolley, gas valve train, and burner management system (BMS) • four calciner burners with associated valve train • two hot gas generators...

Seven Rings Cement used to build new airport terminal in Bangladesh

Seven Rings Cement used to build new airport terminal in Bangladesh

10 October 2023, Published under Cement News

Seven Circle Bangladesh Ltd of Bangladesh announced that it supplied 333,000t of cement and approximately 1.27Mt of the aggregates for the newly-built terminal of Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated on 7 October. Shun Shing Group of Hong Kong established Seven Circle Bangladesh Ltd to produce and market cement under the Seven Rings Cement...

Durkee plant orders new cement mill

12 October 2023, Published under Cement News

Ash Grove Cement ( CRH ) has announced plans to build a new cement mill at its cement plant in Durkee, Oregon , USA. The project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2024. The new cement mill will transform the Durkee plant, enabling it to produce low-carbon cement to meet the growing market demand for sustainable building materials. It will support multiple markets across the regi...

 Taiwan Cement plant has 107MWh battery commissioned

Taiwan Cement plant has 107MWh battery commissioned

28 September 2023, Published under Cement News

Nhoa Energy, a unit of Nhoa SA, formerly Engie EPS, has announced the commissioning of a 107.3MWh energy storage project at a Chinese plant of Taiwan Cement Group (TCC Group). Announcing the system's completion recently, TCC Group said Nhoa Energy had designed and developed the 43.2MW energy storage system. Located at TCC Group’s Yingde plant in Guangdong province, the battery is the mai...

Maerz Ofenbau AG carries out kiln audit and training at Cbb Cales

20 February 2024, Published under Cement News

Maerz Ofenbau AG has conducted a combined kiln audit and training at CCB Cales’ Jáchal lime plant in San Juan district, Argentina. The goal was to improve operations and safety, and to bring all kiln personnel back up to the same level of knowledge, said Maerz Ofenbau AG. The Jáchal lime plant, operated by Cbb Cales Argentina (formerly known as Compania Minera del Pacifico), has a long-stan...

Humboldt Wedag India wins Deccan Cements Ltd's grinding expansion project

15 September 2023, Published under Cement News

Deccan Cements Ltd has awarded Humboldt Wedag India (a KHD company) a contract to increase capacity at an existing Bhavinipuram clinker grinding plant in India. The upgrade will also allow the company to produce both ordinary Portland and pozzolana Portland cements (OPC and PPC) on the same mill. The plant currently comprises a single ball mill producing 155tph of OPC at 2900 Blaine. Foll...

Dome Technology completes Davenport cement DomeSilo project

14 September 2023, Published under Cement News

Continental Cement Co ( Summit Materials ) has built another DomeSilo with Dome Technology, this time at its Davenport , Iowa, USA facility. The DomeSilo can store 125,000stof cement powder, and according to Dome Technology’s records, the structure is among the largest-capacity cement storage facilities in the world, said Dome Technology sales manager, Lane Roberts.
  The dome size is a re...

CTP to supply WHR to Cimpor plants

26 September 2023, Published under Cement News

Oyak group is investing in technology to mitigate the carbon footprint of its cement plants through its Cimpor subsidiary, which  is equipping Souselas and Alhandra in Portugal with new waste heat recovery systems (WHRS). Cimpor has set the goal of reducing direct CO 2 emissions by 37 per cent by 2030. The measure, which is part of the Oyak and its controlled long-term environmental st...

DG Khan Cement incurs losses on taxes

01 September 2023, Published under Cement News

DG Khan Cement Co (DGKC) has reported a loss of PKR3.63bn (US$11.8bn) for the year ended 30 June   2023, compared to a profit of PKR2.97bn in the year-ago period, despite a rise in revenue. The company has attributed the loss to higher taxation and increased financial charges.   The company says its net sales increased by 12 per cent to PKR64.98bn from PKR58.04bn during the 12-month pe...

H&M Construction Co to build GCC K3 Odessa expansion project

31 August 2023, Published under Cement News

H&M Construction Co, Inc has been selected by GCC to be the design-builder of its new K3 pyroprocessing expansion at the Odessa , Texas, USA facility. GCC, a leading producer of cement and concrete in the US and Mexico, recently announced that it will execute a capacity expansion at the Odessa plant, increasing its cement production capacity by over 1Mta and lowering the plant’s greenhouse...

Tokuyama cement selects ABB Ability™ Expert optimizer

25 August 2023, Published under Cement News

ABB has delivered the advanced process control solution ABB Ability™ Expert Optimizer system to control, stabilise and optimise industrial processes at the Tokuyama Nanyo cement plant in Japan.   The commissioning of ABB Ability™ Expert Optimizer enables Tokuyama to reduce about three per cent of thermal energy consumption in the kiln as well as maintain operational quality at the Nany...

Dome Technology start inflating dome for Titan America

15 August 2023, Published under Cement News

In Chesapeake (VA), USA, Dome Technology is hard at work on a 67,500t dome silo for Titan America . The dome is 42.1m (138ft) in diameter and 43m (141ft) tall and is engineered to withstand settling and natural disaster alike. Lane Roberts, Dome Technology's sales manager, said: “It’s incredible to think that one of the strongest manmade structures in the world begins as a fabric airform, bu...

IKN supplies two coolers to Vietnam

14 August 2023, Published under Cement News

IKN has been working on two construction sites in Vietnam in Dai Duong and Thanh Thang where two new IKN coolers are currently being erected. Similar in size, these coolers are designed for producing 7500tpd of clinker and will be ready for commissioning end of this year.   “ These new production lines will enable the customers to produce cement more efficiently and sustainably and expan...