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RIGA wins maintenance deals with Lafarge Africa

09 January 2024, Published under Cement News

RIGA has been awarded for two maintenance contracts with Lafarge Africa Plc in Nigeria for two cement plants. The first contract is for the Mfamosing Cement plant in Calabar City. The second maintenance contract is for second the Ewekoro Cement plant (64km from Lagos), also in Nigeria.  

Three lines of defence

11 January 2023, Published under Cement News

Digitalisation has enabled cement producers to increase the uptime of their equipment as artificial intelligence (AI) has alerted them to current or future equipment failure so swift action can be taken through the plant’s maintenance and repair programme. This reduces lengthy and costly downtime. By Mary Beth Kramer, Kramer Consulting, USA. Detectable failures at early stages save on repair costs and reduce downtime Predictive maintenance with artificial intelligence (AI) are h...

Reconditioning race against time

28 May 2019, Published under Cement News

The reconditioning of 14 raw and coal mill rollers enabled one US cement plant to be fully up-and-running after a shorter-than-usual maintenance period just before the facility’s busiest season. By Smith Services, USA. One of the eight raw mill rollers for reconditioning Working around the clock, seven-days-a-week, a major cement mill located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the USA produces over 4000tpd of cement. Spanning over 100 acres, the mill is one part of the US industry’s ...