Cement News tagged: Recent orders
Tenova TAKRAF Africa wins order for reverse pulse bagfilters for PPC plants
Tenova TAKRAF Africa has been awarded two contracts by South Africa’s leading cement producer, PPC, to supply reverse pulse bagfilters to replace existing electrostatic precipitators (ESPs) at PPC’s Slurry facility near Mahikeng, North West Province, and its De Hoek cement plant in the Western Cape. Replacement of the ESPs with reverse pulse bagfilter technology is part of a PPC company-w...
HeidelbergCement Ukraine appoints two supervisory board members
HeidelbergCement Ukraine (Dnipropetrovsk region), has appointed two members of the supervisory board, according to a company statement. Wolfram Gaertner and Robert Breyer have been elected supervisory board members for three years. In addition, Andrzej Balcerek, Klaus Schwind and Andreas Kern were re-elected supervisory board members. At the same time, Ernest Jelito was removed from the sup...
Gebr Pfeiffer grinding mill partnering in Holcim (US) Hagerstown modernisation
The Holcim (US) Hagerstown plant is the most recent USA cement plant to order a new raw material mill from Gebr Pfeiffer, Inc. The order was placed through KHD Humboldt Wedag, as the engineering and equipment supplier for the Hagerstown plant modernisation. KHD has been contracted to modify the existing production line to increase the plant’s potential production rate to approximately 2400...
KHD books another order in Russia
ZAB Zementanlagenbau GmbH Dessau, a subsidiary of KHD Humboldt Wedag International AG, has signed contracts totalling over EUR90m for equipment and services for a new cement plant consisting of two 3000tpd clinker lines. The new plant will be built in the Kaluga region of Russia for Pervaja Cementnaja Kompanija (PZK), part of the same group as major Russian construction company SU-155.
KHD wins new Turkish order, Maras performance update
KHD has received order for a new 3500tpd clinker production line at Bolu Cimento’s Kazan plant. Meanwhile, the German equipment specialists have also successfully completed a recent performance test for KCS Kahramanmaras Cimento’s Maras Kiln Line II. Bolu Cimento contract The Oyak Group has awarded KHD the order for a new 3500tpd clinker line at the Bolu Cimento’s Kazan plant, located near ...
Fives FCB wins 6000tpd line contract in Algeria
Fives FCB signed a contract with Entreprise des Ciments et Dérivés d’El Chellif (ECDE), part of Ciments d’Algérie (GICA) related to the extension of a third production line at the Chelf cement plant, Algeria. The turnkey contract involves the execution of a new 6000tpd line which is scheduled to begin operations at the end of 2016. The project forms part of GICA’s plans to expand its cement...
Recent orders for Cemengal in Saudi Arabia and Mauritania
Cemengal has received a second order from a Saudi Arabian client for the supply of its Plug&Grind® (P&G) process technology. It has also received two orders for the system in Mauritania. The P&G units are complete cement grinding and packing stations based on a ball mill grinding facility. They are assembled in Spain with European components and compacted into eight or nine standard contain...
A TEC & Ferro Duo to offer Holcim complete solution for bypass dust treatment
A TEC, in collaboration with raw materials company Ferro Duo GmbH and Holcim's Rohožník plant in Slovakia, are now able to provide a complete solution for the recovery of bypass dust in the cement industry for various conditions. In recent years, A TEC has engaged in technologies for the use of alternative fuels, chlorine bypasses and the re-use and recycling of bypass dust in cooperation wit...
ABB upgrades Eastern Province Cement Co's process control system, Saudi Arabia
ABB has recently completed an extensive upgrade of the Extended Automation System 800xA to the latest standards at Eastern Province Cement Co’s (EPCC) three production lines at its Al Khursaniya works in Saudi Arabia. With outdated hardware and software potentially impacting the plant’s reliability and to avoid unexpected shutdowns and improve functionality of the cement production lines, EPC...
Emami Cement places order with Gebr Pfeiffer for five mills
Gebr Pfeiffer SE and its Indian subsidary Gebr Pfeiffer (India) has received a contract from Kolkata-based Emami Cement Ltd for four MVR mills and an MPS mill for coal grinding. Emami Cement, a newcomer to the cement industry, is setting up a greenfield cement works in Chhattisgarh state. The Gebr Pfeiffer order covers an MVR 6000 R-6 roller mill with an installed drive power of 6700kW f...
Repeat Siwertell road-mobile unloader order in less than three months
Turkish construction services company Mussa Insaat Dis Ticaret Ltd of Istanbul has ordered two road-mobile Siwertell 10 000 S cement unloaders from Cargotec in less than three months. The trailer based, diesel powered units will have a rated discharge capacity of 300tph and are scheduled for delivery in mid-May 2014 and late August 2014. "A second order, within two months of the first, is a...
ThyssenKrupp wins Algerian greenfield order
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions has received an order to build a cement clinker production line in Algeria from Société des Ciments de Ain El Kebira (SCAEK), a subsidiary of Algerian cement manufacturer Groupe Industriel des Ciments d’Algérie (GICA). The new 6000tpd cement clinker plant will be built in Ain El Kebira, around 300km east of Algiers near the provincial capital Setif. Start-up...
Fritz & Macziol supplies CIMAT's Moroccan plants with VAS logistics solution
Fritz & Macziol has supplied Ciments de l’Atlas (CIMAT) with its VAS® IT-Logistic solution, to continuously automate the processes at the company’s Moroccan cement plants. The implementation is carried within the scope of a KPI-Project, in which all processes were initially analysed. VAS is used to identify and eliminate weak spots by illustrating the potentials of optimisation. This can be ...
Hazemag wins large Indonesian crushing plant contract
Hazemag & EPR has received a large crushing plant contract from Sinoma International Engineering for installation at PT Cemindo Gemilang’s new 10,000tpd plant on the island of Java, Indonesia. The crushing plant to be delivered by Hazemag consists of a large apron feeder, a wobbler feeder for pre-screening and the impact crusher which has a rotor diameter of 2.5m and a width of 3m and is the ...
FLSmidth wins Hope Construction process optimisation contract, UK
FLSmidth has been awarded a contract for process optimisation of Hope Construction Materials’ cement plant in Derbyshire, UK, using FLSmidth’s ECS/ProcessExpert® system. The system stabilises the plant, optimises the production, manages and corrects process disruptions and minimises wear on plant equipment – all to ensure optimum plant performance. By improving equipment availability and util...
Savannah Cement selects SAP All-in-One solution, Kenya
Savannah Cement has signed an agreement with Sperkejet East Africa Ltd (SEAl) and SAP Africa for the installation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution known as SAP All-in-One solution on SAP HANA platform to manage data in real time. “Due to the increase in our business volumes, we felt that there was a clear need to review our approach to technology, and we’re pleased to have se...