Cement News tagged: Recent orders
Pakistan’s Pioneer Cement Ltd orders four Loesche mills
Pioneer Cement Ltd has awarded Loesche with the contract for four vertical roller mills (VRMs) for its new production line at its Chenki/Kushab district, Punjab. The new line will expand the cement producer’s production capacity at the site to 8000tpd. The contract includes a 630tph VRM for raw meal grinding as well as two cement mills that will grind clinker at a rate of 235tph each. The LD...
Hanson secures road project for Hinkley Point C
Hanson UK (HeidelbergCement group) has extended its involvement with EDF Energy’s Hinkley Point C project in the UK, securing a roads construction contract for the Kier Bam joint venture (JV) through its contracting division. The contract includes supplying 40,000t of cement-bound granular material (CBGM) and 100,000t of asphalt over the next two years. The materials will be used to build ac...
Aunde orders four Loesche mills
Loesche is supplying four vertical roller mills to the new Soma cement plant of the German technology firm Aunde. The first mill will grind up to 350tph of raw material or cement manufacture. The second mill is for grinding up to 30tph of coal, or 27tph of petcoke, while two additional Loesche mills with a throughput of 150th each will be used to grind clinker or granulated blastfurnace slag....
Petron receives new order from Ramco
Petron Engineering Construction Ltd has received work order for civil and mechanical works from India-based Ramco Cements Ltd for its Line-II grinding unit project at Kolghat in West Bengal. The order is worth an approximate value of INR620m (US$9.7m).
FLSmidth awarded Uruguay cement plant contract
FLSmidth has been awarded an order from Cielo Azul Cementos y Calizas SA for engineering, procurement and supply of equipment for a complete cement plant near the city of Treinta y Tres, approximately 300km from the capital of Uruguay, Montevideo. The order comprises a complete range of equipment from crushing to packing and a palletising system. FLSmidth will deliver state-of-the-art energy...
A TEC installs alternative fuels system for CRH in Slovakia
A TEC has installed an alternative fuel system for kiln riser duct firing at CRH's Turna Nad Bodvou cement plant in Slovakia. The cement plant already operated a solid alternative fuel (SAF) system for the main burner, which consists mainly of a double truck-docking station and a dosing system. The riser duct itself has a gas residence time of approximately three seconds, so a thermal subs...
New grinding line for Nepal
FLSmidth has signed a contract with Nepal Shalimar Pvt Ltd for engineering, procurement and supply of equipment for a new cement grinding unit for its existing cement production line. The plant is located in Simara in the Bara district, Nepal. Nepal Shalimar Cement Pvt Ltd is a part of the Shalimar Group, one of the largest conglomerates in Nepal. The contract comprises a range of equipment,...
Samson receives order for four Eco Hoppers from the Port of Mombasa
Samson Materials Handling Ltd has received an order from TradeMark East Africa for four Eco Hoppers to be installed at the Port of Mombasa in Kenya. As they will be employed to import coal as well as clinker and gypsum, the Eco Hoppers will include ATEX-compliant explosion protection, the first such installation of its kind. Samson Eco Hoper Key to the operation is the management...
KHD signs contracts in western sub-Sahara region
Humboldt Wedag GmbH, Germany, a subsidiary of KHD Humboldt Wedag International AG (KHD), Cologne, Germany, has signed contracts totaling over EUR80m for the supply of equipment and execution of civil and erection works as well as supervision services for a cement plant in western sub-Sahara region. The contracts will be booked as order intake as soon as the pre-conditions for commencing proje...
Loesche to supply Bim Son Cement
Bim Son Cement JSC has awarded Loesche the contract to supply a vertical roller mill for the grinding of clinker and granulated blast furnace slag at the Bim Son cement plant in Thanh Hóa province, Vietnam. The scope of the order includes a VRM with a throughput of 250tph, plus a silo, blower, filter and packing plant. The new mill is expected to be commissioned in August 2017. Bim Son Cem...
FLSmidth to deliver Bangladesh grinding line
FLSmidth has signed an engineering, procurement and supply of equipment contract with Meghna Cement Mills for a cement grinding unit at the producer’s existing cement line in Mongla, Bangladesh. The grinding unit will produce 415tph Portland composite cement at 3800 Blaine. The contract includes a range of equipment, including FLSmidth OK TM 54-6 mill, planetary gear unit from FLSmidth MAAG...
Aggregate Industries awards UPS services and maintenance contract
Plant machinery maintenance specialist United Plant Services (UPS) has been awarded a new service and maintenance contract by LafargeHolcim's UK-based subsidiary Aggregate Industries (AI). In total, UPS has been assigned servicing responsibility for 50 per cent of AI's plant assets located across northern Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Southeast of England. UPS’s team of engineers wi...
Fives to supply Ramco Cements
Fives has received an order from AMCL Machinery Ltd to supply a new FCB TSV™ Classifier 4500 THF for Ramco Cements' expansion project at the RR Nagar plant in Tamil Nadu, India. This is the fourth order placed with Fives by the Indian cement producer. Previously, Ramco has installed FCB TSV™ classifiers installed at its grinding units in Kolagat, Salem and Chengalpattu plants.
Tula project major milestones
In May 2015 Cementos Fortaleza SA de CV awarded Fives with an EPC contract for the design, supply, erection and commissioning of a new complete 3300tpd production line to be installed in its existing Tula cement plant, in Mexico. The project features Fives’ latest technologies in terms of energy savings and environmental footprint: - FCB kiln, FCB Zero-NOx precalciner, FCB preheater and Pi...
WEG supplies Itacamba Cemento
WEG has successfully installed several electric motors for Bolivian producer Itacamba Cemento SA, owned by Votorantim Cimentos SA and Cementos Molins. The WEG package includes W22 IP66 high-performance low-voltage motors and medium-voltage slip ring motors with a brush lifting system for continuous operation and suitable for operation in aggressive environments. These electric motors will op...
Fons Technology International replaces Fabrika Cementa Lukavac's cooler
Fons Technology International (FTI) has replaced the existing clinker cooler of Fabrika Cementa Lukavac (FCL) located in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The new clinker cooler is designed for 2100tpd and following a successful erection and commissioning phase by FTI, the clinker cooler has already achieved the process targets with a very smooth mechanical operation, reports FTI. The tailor-made...