Cement News tagged: Recent orders
Reon Energy to install 34MW solar power project for Lucky Cement
Lucky Cement and Reon Energy have announced a 34MW captive solar power project with a 5.589MWh Reflex energy storage. The project, set to be installed at Lucky Cement's Pezu plant in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, will hold not only Pakistan’s largest on-site captive solar plant but also the largest-ever energy storage solution, claims Lucky Cement. The 34MW solar PV project is expected to prod...
FLSmidth to supply World's largest calcined clay installation
FLSmidth has won an order to supply CBI Ghana Ltd’s cement plant outside of Accra in southern Ghana with the world’s largest clay calcination installation. The facility will include the world’s largest gas suspension calciner system and a complete grinding station, adding another 120 per cent grinding capacity. Together with the new grinding station, the Swiss-owned company expects both...
Continental Cement's Davenport dome is erected
Continental Cement ( Summit Materials Group ) has recently inflated its new cement storage dome at its Davenport cement plant, Iowa, USA. When completed, Davenport 's 125,000t cement dome will be the largest cement capacity built in the USA by Dome Technology.
MDG Handling Solutions wins HeidelbergCement Spirit project order
MDG Handling Solutions (MDG) has been awarded participation in the Spirit project of HeidelbergCement, which is being carried out at the Leimen and Schelklingen cement plants, Germany. MDG will create a clinker stocking area and a train loading system in Schelklingen, and this clinker will be transport by train to Leimen . In Leimen a receiving area and transport systems made by Gamba...
AfriSam supplies new border crossing project
AfriSam has supplied some 7000t of its High Strength R42.5 Cement from its Roodepoort plant near Johannesburg for a new border control post between South Africa and Zimbabwe at Beitbridge. The cement for the project's 125,000m 2 of roads and parking area which is being shipped in from AfriSam’s Roodepoort cement plant. AfriSam will have delivered around 10,000t of bulk cement by the time...
FLSmidth wins Gladstone Ports Corp's shiploader order
FLSmidth has been awarded the contract to build Gladstone Ports Corp’s (GPC) new shiploader 1 on site in Queensland, Australia. The contract also includes the decommissioning of the old shiploader, which will be carried out in a safe and sustainable manner. The deal has been booked in the 1Q22 and is valued at approximately DKK225m (US$33.2m). The new shiploader will replace GPC’s existi...
Christian Pfeiffer supplies Dyckerhoff's Deuna cement plant
In December Christian Pfeiffer delivered a mill head with welded-on mill shot for a raw mill for Dyckerhoff ’s Deuna cement plant in Germany. Due to the on-time delivery the assembly started according to schedule. The customer reused the trunnion and the assembly was completed successfully.
El Nahda Cement and ASEC extend technical management contract
The contract between El Nahda Industries ( El Nahda Cement) and The Swiss Arab Engineering Company (ASEC) has been renewed and the cooperation between the two companies will continue for another year until 31 March 2023. ASEC has been technically managing The Renaissance Cement factory since 2011. The renewal of the contract was signed by Ahmed Shrien Karim, CEO and managing director of E...
Pakistan cement producers turn to Afghan coal
Cement factories in north Pakistan have mostly switched to using a mix of coal sourced from Afghanistan and other countries as record-high world markets are making imports too expensive for the sector to maintain its profitability. Northern players are currently using 70 per cent Afghan coal and are considering adding 20 per cent more local coal to the mix, reports The News International. ...
Cherat Packaging Ltd expands its production lines
Cherat Packaging Ltd has successfully installed and commissioned its fourth line of polypropylene plant for producing cement bags. The fourth line of polypropylene cement bag manufacturing plant has again been acquired from leading European supplier Windmoeller & Holscher Group. With this expansion, the production capacity of the company has increased from 195m to 260m polypropylene bags...
FCT Combustion delivers Turbu-Flex burner to Hanover plant
FCT Combustion delivered a Turbu-Flex™ burner to HeidelbergCement ’s Hanover plant in Germany earlier this month. The targets of the project are to maximise the use of alternative fuels as well as to improve combustion control. The supply includes accessories and add-ons to the burner, as well as igniter, flame sensor, fans, blowers, burner management system and spare parts.
Añorga plant to undergo electrical energy supervision upgrade
The Spanish Añorga cement factory of Sociedad Financiera y Minera SA ( HeidelbergCement Group) is to install an electrical energy management system. Currently energy measurement at the plant is carried out locally, with no real-time control of the energy consumed by the production equipment, nor its monitoring in the distributed control system (PCS7). The project will allow the ...
GCC to modernise Samalayuca plant
GCC has signed an EPC contract with thyssenkrupp Polysius to upgrade the pyroprocess system, at its Samalayuca plant , to increase the clinker production capacity, increase the usage of alternative fuels and substantially reduce emissions in Samayaluca, Mexico. The project involves the engineering, supply and modification of the preheater including cyclones an extension of the calcin...
Gebr Pfeiffer commissions Kenyan mill
Gebr Pfeiffer has successfully commissioned third line for cement grinding for Mombasa Cement Ltd, Vpingo , Kenya. The project for Tororo Cement subsidary Mombasa Cement included the installation of a Gebr Pfeiffer vertical roller mill MVR3750C-4. The original order was placed in July 2019 .
Bedeschi delivers new Eco-Hopper to Melón
The new Eco-Hopper supplied by Bedeschi Spa to Chilean cement producer Cemento Melón SA is reaching the working position on the Mardones pier in the southern port of Punta Arenas, Chile. The Eco-Hopper is designed for direct unloading of clinker to trucks at a rate of 600tph and is designed to work with 12m 3 grabs. The machine is equipped with pulse-jet bag filters with high filtrati...
Bruks Siwertell wins mobile ship unloader order from Swecem
Bruks Siwertell has secured a new order for a next-generation Siwertell road-mobile ship unloader from Merit producer and cement importer, Swecem AB, a subsidiary of Peab Group’s Swerock. The unit has an unloading capacity of 300tph, for vessels up to around 10,000dwt, and will secure environment-friendly, dust-free cement handling at one of northern Europe’s leading ports, Helsingborg, Sw...