Cement News tagged: Recent orders
BUA and Sinoma sign US$1.05bn project agreement
Nigerian cement producer BUA Cement Plc has signed an agreement with Sinoma CBMI of China to build three new cement plants with a capacity of 3Mta in Edo, Sokoto and Adamawa states. The 9Mta expansion project is estimated to cost around US$1.05bn and will bring BUA Cement’s total capacity to 20Mta, reports This Day. The new plants are in addition to the company’s 6Mta facility in Edo, the 3M...
Aumund completes 75,000t silo order for LafargeHolcim Côte d'Ivoire
Aumund France has supplied a complete solution package to LafargeHolcim Côte d’Ivoire for clinker discharge from a new silo with a capacity of 75,000t, and commissioned the equipment in the summer of 2020, despite restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic. LafargeHolcim Côte d’Ivoire had placed a large order with Aumund Sarl for its plant in Abidjan, the largest metropolitan area of t...
Aumund Group wins Sinoma order for Les Ciments du Sahel
Sinoma International Engineering and its affiliated CBMI Construction are building a new cement plant for Les Ciments du Sahel in Senegal, which will be almost completely equipped with conveying solutions from the Aumund Group. The order was the result of successful teamwork between Aumund France and Aumund China, and comprises more than 60 machines. The equipment will operate in all sta...
FLSmidth on the way to deliver 86% fuel substitution for Bursa Çimento
Bursa Çimento's new clinker line from FLSmidth will harvest significant sustainability and productivity gains. The order includes, among other equipment, FLSmidth's HOTDISC combustion device, which will help increase the alternative substitution rate to 86 per cent, the highest in Turkey. Situated in northwestern Turkey, work at Bursa's site is under way with production from the new lin...
Hasle Refractories cuts costs for Asian cement plant
An Asian cement plant has achieved a refractory lifetime of three years in its cooler take off duct using Hasle Refractories' D52A castable refractory lining. The 8000tpd cement plant is fired by coal and up to 25 per cent of alternative fuels. This cement plant started using Hasle D52A for the first time 12 years ago. Over the years, the company has made significant material and labou...
Hazemag supplies NCC Northern Cement with two new crushers
Hazemag Systems Gmbh has supplied two crushers to NCC Northern Cement Corp in Philippines in partnership with our local partner PrinceACE Corp. In September 2020 Hazemag Systems received an order from San Miguel Northern Cement Inc for the delivery of two Hazemag Roller Crushers HRC 1230. The two roller crushers are designed for 800tph of shale, silica and pozzolan for Line A. With a d...
Start-up of Scheuch's new baghouse at SCG Siam Cement
Siam Cement Group's (SCG) KK5 project in Thailand is now fully assembled. The project sees the commissioning of a new Scheuch bag filter. The leakage test and the precoating was carried out at the start of November 2020, after which the plant went into operation for dust filtration of approximately 1,000,000m 3 /h exhaust air from the cement kiln. The new bathhouse replaces the existi...
Lucky Cement orders dual-fuel engines from Wärtsilä
Pakistan’s Lucky Cement has signed a contract with Wärtsilä for the supply of a combined cycle power plant with additional engine generating sets for its plant in Pezu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The facility is already equipped with 10 dual-fuel engines, supplied by Wärtsilä. "With new cement lines installed, an additional three Wärtsilä 34DF dual-fuel engines, each with an output of 10MW, have be...
Shiva Cement awards thyssenkrupp Industries India a 4000tpd kiln line project
thyssenkrupp Industries India has won a EUR22m contract from Shiva Cement (JSW Cement Ltd) for a 4000tpd kiln line in Odisha, India. Vivek Bhatta, MD and CEO of thyssenkrupp Industries India, said: “ We are delighted to have won the trust of Shiva Cement for this prestigious order. We are already seeing green shoots and a return to capital investments in the Indian cement industry.” VN ...
ACICO Cement awards Cemengal second cement grinding unit contract
Cemengal has been awarded the contract for the supply a second cement grinding unit by ACICO Cement, Kuwait. The contract includes a 5200 Kws ball mill, fully engineered by Cemengal, and peripheral equipment and a Magotteaux XP4i-130 fourth-generation classifier for high-strength cement. The scope of the project includes full engineering and complete supply of mechanical, process, electric...
ASEC signs O&M contract with Al-Takamol Cement
Arab Swiss Engineering Co (ASEC) has signed a signing a 3-year contract for the operation and maintenance of Al-Takamol Cement’s 1.6Mta facility, located north of Khartoum city, Sudan. In 2009 ASEC and Al-Takamol signed the first operation and maintenance agreement for the plant and ASEC was entrusted with its technical management until 2011, when the plant shifted to self-operation. "Res...
Titan Cement Group enters strategic partnership with FLSmidth
Greece-based Titan Cement Group has signed a new 2.5 year service agreement with FLSmidth that will put sustainability, digitalisation and productivity at the top of the agenda as the cement group aims to achieve best practice implementation across its plants in Europe, Africa and the Americas. The agreement gives Titan full access to FLSmidth’s extensive process- and technical knowhow and a...
Howden’s successful retrofit in South America
Early in 2020, Howden responded to a call from a cement plant in Brazil to retrofit a fan for reduced energy consumption. This retrofit project would involve replacing the rotor, shaft and input cone of the preheater kiln exhaust fan. The retrofit had not been allocated as a capex project. In addition, to coincide with a planned shutdown, delivery would be needed within just 35 days, ...
Shree Cement orders next generation MVR mill from Gebr Pfeiffer
Shree Cement is building a new clinker line near Raipur, India. The raw mill and the coal mill have now been ordered from Gebr Pfeiffer. The new raw material mill, type MVR 6000 R-6, is equipped with an installed drive power of 8700kW and will produce 800tph of raw meal for cement production. The mill will also be equipped with an SLS 6000 VR high-efficiency classifier, which has been optim...
SungShin Cement orders two HOTDISC units
SungShin Cement has ordered two FLSmidth H OTDISC Combustion Devices for its Kiln Lines 3 and 6. The first H OTDISC is expected to be commissioned in mid-2021 and the second at the end of 2021. After the recent installation at SsangYong’s Yeongwool and Donghae plants this will be teh third and fourth H OTDISC installations on the Korean peninsula. The H OTDISC solution allows cement ...
Holcim contracts YPF as fuel supplier
YPF signed an agreement to supply natural gas and petcoke to Holcim’s plants in Malagueño (Córdoba), Campana (Buenos Aires province), Capdeville (Mendoza) and Puesto Viejo (Jujuy), Argentina. The duration of the agreement is two years and will supply all of Holcim Argentina’s natural gas and petcoke supplies, according to CE Noticias Financieras. In 2019 Holcim signed an agreement with YPF Lu...