Cement News tagged: Recent orders
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 ...
Bedeschi wins Tan Thang cement order
Bedeschi SpA has signed a contract for the supply of all the raw material crushing, transporting and storage machines at the Tan Thang cement plant Nhe An province, Vietnam. The new plant will have a cement production capacity of 2Mta. The raw material handling order includes an 850tph crusher, a circular storage unit with an 850tph stacker and 350tph reclaimer. One clay crusher with an apron...
Taiheiyo Cement Corp orders WHR unit from Kawasaki
Japan’s Taiheiyo Cement Corp has ordered a waste heat recovery (WHR) plant from Kawasaki Heavy Industries. The 8MW unit will be delivered to the company’s Saitama facility and is expected to begin operations in September 2022. Kawasaki will handle overall plant design, equipment supply, installation and commissioning advisory services, according to a press release. Its VEGA boiler will also b...
CimMetal awards Togo grinding contract to Intercem
Togo-based cement producer CimMetal has placed the order for various equipment for its 2.5Mta VRM-based grinding plant at Lomé with Austrian equipment supplier Intercem. The order includes a 1000tph truck unloading station, a 25,000tph additives storage facility, a 1000tph truck loading station, two 50,000t clinker silos, four Rotopackers, 10 truck scales and the corresponding laboratory eq...
Pillard wins Mexican burner order
Pillard has received an order for a Pillard PRECAFLAM™ burner in a new cement plant in Mexico, delivered by Fives FCB. Its technology, associated with both the Pillard NOVAFLAM ® main burner and the Fives FCB preheater, enables a very low specific heat consumption with an average of 760 kcal/kg. This 70MW vertical Pillard PRECAFLAM™ burner is designed to fire coal/petcoke/diesel/natural gas...
Aumund win clinker conveyor order from Ask Cement
AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH has won a clinker conveying system order from ASK Cement, which is building a greenfield cement plant in Yekaterinburg, Ural region, Russia. AUMUND developed the concept for the complete clinker conveying package at the plant, together with ASK Cement and its long-time engineering partner, the Sibniiproject Cement Design Institute in Novosibirsk. The concept comprise...
Chettinad Cement orders MVR 600 C-6 Gebr Pfeiffer VRM
Chettinad Cement has awarded Gebr Pfeiffer the contract to supply a granulated blastfurnace slag and blastfurnace cement grinding plant, which will be set up near the steel works town of Visakapatnam, India. Gebr Pfeiffer SE will supply the core components of the MVR 6000 C-6 vertical roller mill (VRM) as well as the 6700kW gear unit from Europe. Foundation parts, housings and other component...
ASEC signs 3-year O&M contract extension with Sinai White Cement
ASEC, the leading O&M operator in the MEA region, announced the renewal of its Technical Management contract with Sinai White Cement Co until December 2022. The two-line cement facility has a total capacity of 2800tpd of clinker, located in north Sinai, Egypt. ASEC and Sinai White's two-decade collaboration started back in 1999 when ASEC was assigned as the consultant of choice for the first ...
Quinn Cement to receive new truck fleet
Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) has taken delivery of 10 new trucks and a range of heavy mobile plant machinery. Six of the new trucks are bound for Quinn Cement. Two eight-wheel rigid tippers will be used across Quinn Quarries and Tarmac divisions. The new machinery is part of the latest phase of the company's ongoing 'Fleet and Mobile Plant Replenishment Programme' and follows the arrival o...
Solnhofer Portland-Zementwerke order coal dust dosing systems
In November 2019 Solnhofer Portland-Zementwerke in Germany awarded Intercem the contract for the engineering, planning and installation of two coal dust dosing systems. The existing plant was recorded by laser scan and, based on this, the dosing units, the steel structure, the platforms and the conveyor piping were planned. As in a similar preliminary order, the special requirements of the p...
UltraTech awards grinding equipment order to Gebr Pfeiffer
UltraTech Cement, India’s largest cement producer, has placed the order for a MVR 6000 C-6 mill with Gebr Pfeiffer. The order is the first ever between UltraTech and Gebr Pfeiffer although the latter’s vertical roller mills are reportedly part of the standard equipment of the Indian cement company. The mill will enable UltraTech to grind 225tph of granulated blastfurnace slag as well as up t...
Diamond Cement Mali awards sack contract to SCS DMC
Diamond Cement Mali has awarded the contract to produce its cement bags to the new Société Malienne de Cartonnerie (SCS MDC). The contract was signed on 6 December by Prasad Motaparti, CEO of Diamond Cement Mali and Moussa Silvain Diakité, CEO of MDC. Under the contract, the bag manufacturer will produce more than 20m cement bags to pack the cement producer’s entire output, estimated at 1Mta....
Teploozersky cement plant purchases excavators
Russian cement producer Vostok Cement has bought two Hitachi ZX470 excavators for its Teploozersky plant. They will replace the current Volvo excavators with high-performance, increased safety and environmentally-friendly equipment. Located in the Jewish Autonomous Region, the Teploozersky cement plant is an integrated works with a cement capacity of 0.815Mta.
HeidelbergCement orders latest version of INFORM's Transport Optimisation Software
HeidelbergCement has successfully rolled out the latest version of INFORM's transport optimisation software for the building materials industry. The new version (V10) features an overhauled user interface (UI) and decision-making engine. Inspired by feedback from customers and partners, INFORM designed the new UI to accelerate user adoption, while the updated algorithms further increase truck...
Gebr Pfeiffer wins Swedish mill order
Gebr Pfeiffer has been awarded a contract by Swecem AB, part of the Peab corporate group, one of northern Europe’s leading construction companies, for the supply and construction of a complete granulated blastfurnace slag (GBS) grinding plant with a mill type MVR 2500 C-4. The plant is in Oxelösund, located on the eastern coast of southern Sweden. Swecem AB operates in the field of cementi...