Cement News tagged: Recent orders
Fives installs grinding mill for ECDE
Fives has installed the first FCB B cement grinding mill in April 2017 at Entreprise des Ciments et Dérivés d’El Chellif’s (ECDE) 6000tpd clinker line at Chlef, Algeria. ECDE is a member of the industrial group Ciments d’Algérie (GICA). Installation of the mill followed the erection of the Ø5.1m x L 82m kiln in February 2017. A heavy lifting jack crane system sliding on rails was required to ...
Siam City Cement collaborates with NIIT Technologies
Siam City Cement Co (SCCC) of Thailand has partnered with global IT solutions organisation NIIT Technologies Ltd to build its future-ready IT infrastructure. Supporting the digital transformation for SCCC, NIIT Technologies has designed, delivered and is operating its private and public cloud infrastructure. SCCC’s digital journey is driven by INSEE Digital, its IT subsidiary started with IN...
New orders for Gebr Pfeiffer in South Asia
Gebr Pfeiffer has announced that it has received orders for its MVR grinding technology for two South Asia-based cement plants. Wonder Cement switches to Gebr Pfeiffer vertical roller mill for cement grinding Wonder Cement has selected Gebr Pfeiffer’s MVR 6000 C-6 with a 5280kW drive mill for cement grinding at its cement plant Nardana, in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It will produce ...
FLSmidth signs cement grinding plant contract in Rwanda
FLSmidth confirmed it has signed a contract with Prime Cement Ltd for engineering, procurement and supply of equipment for a full-scope cement grinding plant with a capacity of 700,000tpa. The plant will be located in Musanze, Rwanda. The contract will become effective when FLSmidth receives a down-payment from the customer, which is expected to happen later in 2017, the company said in a stat...
Gebr Pfeiffer receives follow-up order from Sagar Cement, India
India-based Sagar Cement Ltd has contracted Gebr Pfeiffer SE with another order for a mill to grind granulated blast furnace slag and granulated blast furnace slag cement. A new 160tph of ground granulated blast furnace slag grinding plant forms part of Sagar Cement's extension to its Bayyavaram Village works, near to Visakhapatnam, India. To this end, Gebr Pfeiffer will supply its MVR 5000 C...
Poland: Beumer wins elevator order for LafargeHolcim plant
Beumer Group will deliver four high-capacity belt bucket elevators to a LafargeHolcim cement plant in Poland. As a general contractor, the steelworks company Mostostal Kraków SA has entrusted Beumer Group with the delivery of four high-capacity belt bucket elevators to LafargeHolcim Ltd's Kujawy cement plant. These systems are part of a project to improve the production and the quality of ceme...
LafargeHolcim Colombia orders ready2grind system
LafargeHolcim Colombia has awarded Gebr Pfeiffer, Inc with an order for its modular ready2grind cement grinding system which includes the latest MVR technology for vertical roller mills. The new cement grinding plant will comprise the clinker feed modular hopper system, Gebr Pfeiffer ready2grind milling circuit and product storage systems plus a packing plant by Claudius Peters. The Gebr Pf...
Loesche updates on DG Khan grinding orders, Pakistan
Loesche has provided an update on its order to supply Pakistan producer DG Khan Cement Company with three grinding mills for its new 9000tpd clinker line in Hub in Balochistan province. The contract comprises one 654tph raw material mill for raw meal with COPE drive technology, one 445tph cement mill for OPC with a COPE drive as well as a 66tph coal mil. The raw mill, with 1050tph nominal cap...
APO Cement Corp signs waste heat agreement with Sinoma Energy Conservation
Cemex Holdings Philippines Inc subsidiary APO Cement Corp has signed an agreement with Sinoma Energy Conservation Ltd. of China to build and operate a 4.5MW waste-heat-to-energy (WHTE) facility in Naga, Cebu. This technology is expected to generate 25,000MW hours annually. The facility is expected to mitigate the negative effects of power service interruptions, help reduce dependence on high-...
Guinée Industries Ciments selects KHD’s COMFLEX technology
Guinée Industries Ciments (GIC) awarded KHD Humboldt Wedag a new contract to upgrade its cement grinding plant located in the capital city Conakry, Guinea. GIC will integrate a COMFLEX® system into their existing ball mills. The system will mark the third COMFLEX system with roller press technology in West Africa. With the latest COMFLEX system, GIC will increase the capacity of its cement gr...
Ukraine: Fives to provide revamping services for Imerys plant
In December 2016, Fives FCB signed with Vatutinsky Kombinat Vognetryviv, a refractory chamotte plant of Imerys, a contract for the revamping of its kiln located in Cherkassy, Ukraine. This contact includes the supply of parts for the kiln mechanical refurbishment as well as erection engineering and supervision. The first stage of the project consists in revamping and upgrading the kiln #1 to ...
Bolivia awards Potosí contract to German-Spanish consortium
The Bolivian government has awarded the US$241m contract to construct a new cement plant in Potosí to a consortium of Germany-based thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions and Spanish companies Imasa and Valoriza (Sacyr Group). The new plant will be located in the community of Chiutara, 4000m above sea level, making it one of the highest in the world, according to the Service’s of Development of ...
Enersize signs new order wtih BBMG, China
Enersize Oyj of Finland has signed an agreement to provide its system for measurements and efficiency analysis of energy usage in industrial compressed air systems to the BBMG Liulihe Cement Plant in China. Enersize´s part of the yearly savings during the lifetime of the project will be agreed with the customer in the second project phase when the savings potential has been measured and id...
Algeria: SARL Biskria Ciment orders five Loesche VRMs
Loesche has been awarded the contract for five large vertical mills (VRMs) by Algerian cement producer SARL Biskria Ciment. Two mills will be supplied for the grinding of cement raw meal and three mills will be for clinker grinding for the cement producer’s plant in Biskra, 300km southeast of the capital Algiers. The new equipment will enable raw meal to be ground to a fineness of 12 per cent...
Iraq: Attock Cement Pakistan opts for Chinese grinding equipment
A research report on Attock Cement Pakistan Ltd (ACPL) provides an update on the company's Basra grinding unit project in Iraq. According to the report , Saqr Al Keetan, in which APCL holds a 60 per cent interest, has established a US$9.75m letter of credit for the first phase of the cement grinding unit to be supplied by the Hefei Cement Research and Design Institute of China. The first ...
Burkina Faso: Intercem races replacement transformer to Cimfaso plant
Intercem performed an express-delivery of a replacement transformer for Cimfaso in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The original main transformer of the Cimfaso plant was purchased from a local supplier during construction work in 2014. On 16 February 2017, this transformer was damaged due to an issue in the local power grid. As a result, production at the works was shut down. To avoid high...