Cement News tagged: Recent orders
FLSmidth to supply OK mill to CalPortland's Mojave plant
CalPortland has awarded a supply contract to FLSmidth for its Mojave raw mill project. The scope of supply includes engineering, equipment and installation of a new OK 48-4 raw mill with a condition monitoring system and an ECS/ProcessExpert system. "The new OK Raw Mill from FLSmidth will increase reliability and efficiency at our Mojave plant," says Bruce E Shafer, senior vice president for ...
UNTHA Iberia delivers shredder for Geocycle's Albox facility
Geocycle (LafargeHocim) has received an XR3000C shredder from UNTHA Ibera for its Albox (Almeria) facility for co-processing in Spain. The equipment will help transform 15,000tpa of hazardous solid waste into pretreated waste with the right granulometry for co-processing in cement kilns. The new shredding line means Geocycle can now convert nationally-produced commercial and industrial waste ...
Dal Machinery & Design deliver three kiln shells to Twiga Cement
Dal Machinery & Design (Dal Engineering Group) has delivered three rotary kiln shells for Tanzania Portland Cement Public Ltd (Twiga), Tanzania. The kiln shells were manufactured with a diameter of 3.95m and were delivered to the HeidelbergCement subsidiary on 23 April 2020. Lorries take the kiln parts on the first part of their journey One of the kiln shell section...
Yanbu Cement to reduce heat and power consumption
Saudi-based Yanbu Cement Co(YCC) has signed an agreement in early 2020 for a considerable efficiency upgrade to be carried out by FLSmidth, focussing on reducing heat and power consumption. With increased attention on sustainability in the region, YCC, located 400km north of Jeddah, has chosen FLSmidth to provide the equipment and carry out the installation, projected to bring significant r...
FCT Combustion reports recent global orders
FCT Combustion has won several burner orders throughout Europe and in Brazil for the cement sector, which are currently under commissioning or have recently been installed. An FCT Combustion Turbu-Flex™ burner has been commissioned at Votorantim Cimentos' Cuiaba plant in Brazil to enable firing with petcoke and fuel oil, as well as coprocessing alternative fuels such as rice husks and wood ...
thyssenkrupp to build first industrial-scale activated clay-based cement plant in Cameroon
Germany-based equipment supplier thyssenkrupp will build the first industrial-scale cement plant that uses activated clay to produce low-carbon cement in Cameroon, according to a company statement. thyssenkrupp is to fit the first cement plant with a system for the production of calcined clay for the Dutch-based company Cimpor Global Holdings. The technology developed by thyssenkrupp lowers ...
CIMCO awards Gebr Pfeiffer contract for Togo mill
CIMCO, part of the CIM Metal Group, has awarded Gebr Pfeiffer the contract for an MVR 6000 C-6 mill for its grinding plant in Lomé, Togo. Gebr Pfeiffer will supply the mill and the process design while Intercem will build the grinding plant. The MVR 6000 C-6 mill will be used to grind cements ranging from CEM I to CEM IV. The mill has a drive power of 6400kkW to produce CEM I at 370tph with ...
KHD signs EP contract with India's ACC
Regional subsidiaries of KHD Humboldt Wedag have signed an EP contract with India's ACC Ltd (LafargeHolcim) for the engineering, supply of equipment and supervisory services related to the erection and commissioning of a raw meal grinding unit and a pyroprocessing line. The EUR35m contract package also includes the supply and installation of the electrical and instrumentation equipment for ...
Bedeschi wins material handling order in USA
Bedeschi SpA has been awarded by KHD Humboldt Wedag International AG the contract for clay crushing and handling equipment at the Lehigh Mitchell plant. Bedeschi is supplying two complete crushing units, including an apron feeder and a double roller crusher, as well as a blending stacking and reclaiming longitudinal system for limestone, a clay apron conveyor and a 700m-long pipe conveyor for...
Metso wins Russian order for calcining system
Metso has signed a contract for the delivery of a calcining system to a customer in Russia. The order value of approximately EUR30m has been booked in Metso's 1Q20 orders received. Commissioning of the system is expected in 2023. The system, which consists of two calcining lines with a total capacity of 420,000tpa, has been designed to remove moisture and volatile substances and improve the p...
FCT Combustion wins Titan Cement burner order
FCT Combustion has been awarded an EPC contract to convert Titan Cement's existing 5000stpd kiln system at its Pennsuco plant in Florida, USA, for 100 per cent natural gas firing. The scope comprises a new Gyro-Therm™ Mk3 burner with dual fuel capability as well as a spare Gyro-Therm™ Mk3 burner with 100 per cent natural gas firing capability. Accessories, field instruments, BMS and valve tra...
HASLE installs wide range of castables in Asian cement plant
A wide range of HASLE's castables again has been chosen for all the critical areas in one of the leading, large cement plants in Asia. HASLE castables has installed 400t of refractories in a 8500tpd cement plant in Asia. In total, HASLE materials covered almost 1100m 2 of the production process. All materials are manufactured by HASLE in its state-of-the-art plant in Denmark. In cooperation ...
Gebr Pfeiffer wins lime equipment orders
ECO-Zoloproduct invest LLC in 2018 started the construction of a modern high-tech lime production plant with the trademark ROSCA in Kassimow city, Ryazan region, Russia. The main products of the new plant will be lump lime as well as ground and hydrated lime of various fractions. The new plant products sales are scheduled for mid-2020. Gebr Pfeiffer signed in 2019 the first contract for the s...
Bedeschi updates on LafargeHolcim Maroc's belt conveyor project
Bedeschi has said erection works on a long distance belt conveyor project for LafargeHolcim Maroc's cement plant in Souss are well underway. Following an intense civil work phase, during which the single trusses were preassembled and equipped with the mechanical comports, the 4.3km long distance belt conveyor has started to take shape. The company said that the site team is taking full ...
Asia Cement awards new order to KHD Humboldt Wedag
Asia Cement Company Ltd (Korea) of South Korea has awarded KHD Humbold Wedag with a supply and engineering contract for the modernisation of its third clinker production line located close to Jecheon-si, Korea. The target of the upgrade project is to increase the alternative fuel substitution rate to above 85 per cent of calciner fuel, as well as the reduction of NO x to satisfy local emiss...
Cemex Colombia extends O&M contract with Wärtsilä
Cemex Colombia has awarded Wärtsilä the four-year extension to the operation and maintenance (O&M), marking a 25-year continuous partnership by 2023. The 26MW Caracolito Cemex power plant operates on five Wärtsilä 18-cylinder 34SG engines in V-configuration running on natural gas. It provides a reliable electricity supply to power the cement facility’s day-to-day production requirements. In ...