Cement News tagged: Recent orders
Siam City Cement will use AI to improve its supply chain
Siam City Cement aims to upgrade its business chain using Krungsri Supply Chain on Blockchain Innovation, an AI deep learning technology. "The Krungsri Supply Chain on Blockchain is another successful development that will help make the purchasing, sales and various documentation systems making up the product supply chain of Siam City Cement Group faster and more accurate," says Mr Saym Prasi...
Gebr Pfeiffer wins LafargeHolcim Guinea order for VRM
LafargeHolcim has ordered a Gebr Pfeiffer MVR 2500 C-4 mill to grind cement in the port of Conakry at the Sonfonia cement plant, Guinea. The VRM features a total drive power of 1300kW. The mill has been designed to grind 75tph of CEM IV 32.5 and 69tph of CEM IV 42.5 to a specific surface of 3440cm²/g and 3340cm²/g according to Blaine, respectively. The MVR 2500 C-4 is Gebr Pfeiffer's current...
Gebr Pfeiffer to supply ready2grind plant to Algematco Steel
Germany-based grinding specialist Gebr Pfeiffer has won the order for a vertical roller mill from Algematco Steel in Algeria. Gebr Pfeiffer will deliver a ready2grind plant that is based on a MVR 2500 C-4 VRM with a SLS 2650 BC classifier and drives. In addition, the company will supply the feed module with material dosing and transport, plant filter, fan and hot gas generator as well as el...
Unitherm-Cemcon supplies MAS burners to South Korean plant
Unitherm-Cemcon has commissioned a MAS burner for a South Korean cement producer in May 2019. The start-up took just four days. The Austrian burner company won a contract to supply three MAS kiln burners at a South Korean plant in late 2018. The first burner was delivered in February 2019 and the remaining two in March 2019. The scope of supply included two MAS/4/KO.SO burners for coal and...
Dal Engineering Group wins multiple orders
Dal Group has reported the signing of a number of new orders in the cement sector in Colombia, Russia, Egypt and Qatar. Dal Machinery & Design (Dal Engineering Group) has been awarded the contract for delivering two surface feeders with a capacity of 2x200tph to Cementos Argos' Rio Claro cement plant in Colombia. According to the planned schedule, the installation of two surface feeders w...
Aumund to supply nine machines for Aslan plant modernisation
Germany’s Aumund Fördertechnik GmbH has won an order from Aslan Cement Inc, comprising of nine machines in total. The order forms part of the complete modernisation of Aslan’s plant in Darıca, Kocaeli province, Turkey, which will see it ramp up clinker production capacity to 6600tpd. The company will supply a 225tph BWZ-L bucket elevator to feed the raw meal, as well as three different models...
Topnewer brings energy savings to Bestway's Chakwal plant
Topnewer awarded new contract at Bestway Cement's Chakwal plant, Pakistan On 27 April 2019, Topnewer's commissioning team arrived at Bestway Cement Ltd's Chakwal plant, Pakistan, to commission ball mill No 3 following the replacement of steel grinding media with ceramic grinding balls in the second chamber to reduce specific power consumption. Topnewer was invited to upgrad...
Flexco's PTEZ Belt Trainer reduces costs
Flexco's PTEZ Belt Trainer was chosen by a cement producer to cut back on material losses on a conveyor belt, while achieving significant savings in maintenance and spare parts inventories. "Our customer, who operated a conveyor system for cement clinker, was constantly having problems with belt misalignment," said Flexco. "This was not only causing major losses of clinker, it was leading to ...
Wärtsillä to build 20MW engine to power Najmat Al-Samawa cement plant
Wärtsilä will supply the equipment to enable an efficient, reliable and independent power source for the Najmat Al-Samawa cement factory in Iraq. The 20MW engine power plant is being built by Al Shumookh Lucky Investments Ltd, a joint venture company of Lucky Cement Ltd and a limited liability company registered in the United Arab Emirates. The power plant will operate on two Wärtsilä 32 eng...
ASEC renews technical management contract with Beni Suef Cement
ASEC has announced the renewal of its Technical Management contract with Misr Beni Suef Cement Company until December 2023. Entrusted with the technical management of the first production line in 2001, ASEC has sustained the production level above the nominal capacity. In 2007 the contract was first renewed by an extra five years, adding as well a second line to ASEC's operation and mainten...
HeidelbergCement extends Renewi AF contract
HeidelbergCement Miljo has extended the contract for Icopower pellets from waste-to-product company Renewi plc. The new contract will run for three years with the option to extend for a similar period. Renewi will supply the Germany-based cement producer with up to 54,000tpa of pellets. HeidelbergCement uses the pellets as an alternative fuel in the Gotland plant. Pellets are manufactured in...
Baltrader Capital orders two cement carriers
Hamburg-based Baltrader Capital has ordered the construction of two cement carriers from Fujian Southeast Shipbuilding in China. These vessels will be delivered from the end of 2020. The sister vessels, CemCoaster and CemClipper will measures 98m in length, 15.6m in width and will be able to carry 4650t at 6m draft. The new generation of cement carriers will be optimised for the European sho...
Pengfei Group completes order for Alasim Cement
Pengfei Group's first batch of cement equipment has arrived at the Khorgos Customs in Xinjing province and leaving for the Alasim Cement plant project site in Kazakhstan. Pengfei Group of China and Alasim Cement Co Ltd. signed an EPC turnkey project for a 1.2Mta kiln line. The project covers all supporting contents such as engineering design, construction engineering, mechanical and electrica...
Magotteaux starts Kuwait cement mill optimisation programme
Magotteaux has started the modernisation of three cement mills for Kuwait Cement Co. The project consists of closing the open circuit with a fourth-generation XP4 ® i separators, installing new mill internals, including diaphragms, and adapting a new ball charge gradation. The aim of the project is to increase significantly the production rate, reduce the specific energy consumption and impr...
BUA Group signs contract for new power plant
Nigeria's BUA Group has signed a contract with Finland-based Wartsila Oy for the construction of a 48MW power plant at its Sokoto Cement facility. The power project will supply line 3 and adds to the 100MW of captive power that the company already utilises. "We can't compromise on our quality. We are known to provide quality products and services to our customers and we are assured that Wart...
Flying Cement to install OK™ mill on new 7700tpd line
Flying Cement Company has placed a major order with FLSmidth for its new 7700tpd production line in Mangwal, Pakistan. FLSmidth will supply a new OK™ 71-6 cement mill, which will be designed to grind OPC cement at a capacity of 415tph. Commissioning is expected in 2020, and the mill will be supplied together with an FLSmidth ILC preheater system, two-Base Kiln, Cross-Bar ® cooler, ROKSH 1...