Cement News tagged: Recent orders
Gambia: Siwertell road mobile unloader starts commercial operation
In September this year Siwertell, part of Cargotec, received and delivered an order for a road mobile unloader for Jah Multi Industrial Ltd, based in Banjul, Gambia. Following its delivery from Sweden, the unit was commissioned and taken into commercial operation in November. The trailer-based, diesel-powered, Siwertell 10 000 S road-mobile unloader with double bellows system and dust filter...
Siemens surpasses motor milestone with UltraTech order
Siemens Limited announced that it has surpassed a key milestone in manufacturing and delivering International Efficiency (IE) class industrial motors by handing the 100,000th motor to UltraTech Cement Ltd. in India. This translates to energy savings of 300GWh, which is equivalent to the power required by 80,000 average Indian households for an entire year, since the launch of the motors in Jan...
Ciments de L’Afrique awards grinding contract
Ciments de L’Afrique has awarded the contract for a new cement grinding plant to CEMTEC which will be established at the cement producer’s existing facility 15km outside of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The new 0.5Mta grinding facility will double existing production capacity. The key components of the plant are • Shell supported ball mill 3.8 x 11.0m with an installed motor power of 2250kW • ...
Thermax wins new captive power plant order in Africa
Thermax Ltd has won a repeat order from a leading African industrial major to build and commission a captive power plant for one of the conglomerate’s cement plants. The scope of the project includes system design, manufacture, supply and supervision of erection and commissioning of the plant. “We are excited about the business opportunities emerging in Africa. Our two-year project manageme...
Siwertell mobile unloader serves Kuwaiti construction
Siwertell, part of Cargotec, has announced the successful delivery, commissioning and recent entry into operations of a new mobile Siwertell unloader for Kuwait-based Acico Construction Co. It was ordered in June to help meet the region's growing cement demands and is now operational in Kuwait's second largest port, Shuaiba, located south of Kuwait City. The trailer-based, diesel-powered Si...
UNICEM orders Loesche mill for new Calabar line, Nigeria
United Cement Company of Nigeria (UNICEM) has ordered the largest Loesche mill to-date, an LM 70.4+4 for its new line at the Calabar cement works. The Loesche LM 70.4+4 will be used at Unicem’s new Calabar line in Nigeria with an output of 370tph at 4700 Blaine. The delivery period is 14 months. The 4+4 concept follows Loesche mill types with 2+2 and 3+3 rollers. The 4+4 grinding concept...
Egypt: Titan Cement selects Gebr Pfeiffer coal mill
Titan Cement has ordered a MPS 2800 BK vertical roller mill for coal from Gebr Pfeiffer SE for Line No 1 of its Beni Suef works in Egypt. The mill is designed for a finished product rate of 40tph. The coal, with a Hardgrove grindability index of 45, will be ground to a product fineness of 12 per cent residue 90µm, while simultaneously being dried from a maximum 12 per cent feed moisture to a...
N+P strikes major Portuguese SRF deal
N+P has signed a five-year contract for the supply of solid recovered fuels (SRF) into a number of cement plants owned by the Portuguese cement companies Secil and Cimpor. The contract is signed with Gestão Ambiental e Valorização Energética, a subsidiary of Secil, Cimpor and SGVR, responsible for sourcing and supply of alternative fuels and raw materials into the Portuguese cement industry. ...
MacGregor wins order for three eco-bulker vessels
MacGregor, of the Cargotec group, has won a contract from New Times Shipyard, in China, for Intership Navigation Co Ltd's three new 36,500dwt Laker-class bulk carriers. Cyprus-based Intership Navigation manages a fleet of more than 80 vessels, mainly consisting of dry bulk and break bulk vessels, cement carriers and product tankers. The newly-ordered vessels will each have six holds and wil...
HeidelbergCement AG announces Fritz & Maczoil as ‘Preferred Supplier’
The VAS IT-Logistic solution of Fritz & Maczoil has become an integral part of HeidelbergCement AG’s “Logistic Efficiency Optimization” (LEO) initiative. A considerable cost reduction in the fields of logistics for the corporate group is the aim by introducing an integrated material-flow management system. Globally several plants in the business lines of cement, aggregates (sand and gravel) ...
Bolivia: FLSmidth to supply new Soboce plant
FLSmidth has signed a contract with Sociedad Boliviana de Cemento SA (SOBOCE) for the supply of equipment and machinery for a cement plant in Bolivia. The cost of the project is estimated at US$180m and will include the construction of a 0.8Mta cement plant in Yacuses, Puerto Suarez, that is expected to be fuelled by natural gas. Álvaro Andrade, national project manager, and Felix Salek, regi...
Egypt: Loesche wins mill orders at El Arish Cement
El Arish Cement is adding two new kiln lines, each with a clinker capacity of 5500tpd. The company already operates two Loesche Type LM 56.4 vertical roller mills for cement raw material grinding within its existing two lines. Now the Egyptian cement producer has decided on a repeat order for the two new lines. The LM 56.4 mills will grind raw meal with a capacity of 450tph and a fineness of 1...
USA: FLSmidth to install new line at Cemex Odessa
FLSmidth has won a turnkey contract for Cemex’s Odessa cement plant in western Texas, USA. The completed project will raise the works' cement capacity to 2540tpd. The equipment scope includes a five-stage ILC preheater with a low-NO x calciner, three-pier kiln, Cross-Bar cooler, Duoflex burner, FLSmidth Pfister weighing and dosing systems, gas analysers and three Fuller-Kinyon pumps. ...
Wärtsilä renews long-term O&M agreement with Cemex Colombia
Wärtsilä has renewed its Asset Management Agreement with Cemex Colombia, one of the major cement companies in Colombia. The agreement was signed during summer 2014 and it is valid for five years. It is a continuation of an earlier Asset Management Agreement which was signed in 1998. With this new agreement, Wärtsilä continues to operate and maintain the power plant at Cemex Colombia’s cemen...
Sinoma Energy Conservation signs Tajikistan contract
Sinoma Energy Conservation announces that it signed a contract to build a 25MW self-generation power plant for 3000tpd clinker production line in Khudzhand, Tajikistan for Huaxin Cement.
McInnis awards 6000tpd project to ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions (USA) Inc
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions and McInnis Cement have announced a sales/purchase agreement valued at CAD150m (US$132.6m) for the manufacturing and supply by ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions (USA) Inc of a complete cement production line. The new 6000tpd clinker production plant is currently under construction on a greenfield site in the Port-Daniel-Gascons area of Quebec, Canada. The ...