Cement News tagged: Recent orders
Dyckerhoff and N+P extend supply agreement
N+P is to extend its cooperation with Dyckerhoff AG by securing a new order for the delivery of high-quality Subcoal® pellets. Subcoal is produced at the Qlyte facility in Delfzijl, The Netherlands. The facility produces about 65,000tpa of Subcoal®, whereby it processes around 100,000t of non-recyclable paper-plastic waste fractions which otherwise would have been sent to landfill or waste i...
Pakistan: Attock Cement signs agreement for coal-fired plant
Attock Cement Ltd and K-Electric have agreed to establish a 40MW coal-fired plant, enough to power the cement producer’s Pakistan-based plant while surplus electricity will be sold back to the grid. “Attock Cement has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with K-Electric for the installation of 40MW coal fired plant at its factory in Hub, Balochistan for its own utilisation and sell surpl...
Colombia: FLSmidth to supply 2800tpd Cemex line
FLSmidth has been awarded the contract to supply a 2800tpd cement line for Cemex’s new Cementera del Magdalena Media cement plant in Antioquia, Colombia. The contract includes the engineering, project management and commissioning as well as all key production equipment, including an FRM mill for raw grinding, an ATOX coal mill, a five-stage ILC preheater with a low-NOx calciner, an FLSmidth ...
Euromecc completes installation of Catania cement distribution terminal
Euromecc Srl has completed the installation of a new storage and distribution terminal at the port of Catania, Sicily, for cement distributor Cata Beton. The turnkey project included the installation of two circular silos with a total storage capacity of 8000t. A double discharge cone enables the continuous feeding of tankers through extractor screws equipped with two dedusting telescopic di...
Gebr Pfeiffer to supply raw mill to new Itacamba cement plant
Itacamba Cemento SA has awarded Gebr Pfeiffer Inc the contract for a raw mill which will be installed at the cement producer's new 2000tpd cement plant in the Bolivian municipality of Yacuces. Gebr Pfeiffer has been selected to supply the raw material grinding system using an MPS 3750 B mill as its key component. Raw material output will be 210tph with a fineness of 14 per cent residue on 90µ...
Gambia: Siwertell road mobile unloader starts commercial operation
In September this year Siwertell, part of Cargotec, received and delivered an order for a road mobile unloader for Jah Multi Industrial Ltd, based in Banjul, Gambia. Following its delivery from Sweden, the unit was commissioned and taken into commercial operation in November. The trailer-based, diesel-powered, Siwertell 10 000 S road-mobile unloader with double bellows system and dust filter...
Siemens surpasses motor milestone with UltraTech order
Siemens Limited announced that it has surpassed a key milestone in manufacturing and delivering International Efficiency (IE) class industrial motors by handing the 100,000th motor to UltraTech Cement Ltd. in India. This translates to energy savings of 300GWh, which is equivalent to the power required by 80,000 average Indian households for an entire year, since the launch of the motors in Jan...
Ciments de L’Afrique awards grinding contract
Ciments de L’Afrique has awarded the contract for a new cement grinding plant to CEMTEC which will be established at the cement producer’s existing facility 15km outside of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The new 0.5Mta grinding facility will double existing production capacity. The key components of the plant are • Shell supported ball mill 3.8 x 11.0m with an installed motor power of 2250kW • ...
Thermax wins new captive power plant order in Africa
Thermax Ltd has won a repeat order from a leading African industrial major to build and commission a captive power plant for one of the conglomerate’s cement plants. The scope of the project includes system design, manufacture, supply and supervision of erection and commissioning of the plant. “We are excited about the business opportunities emerging in Africa. Our two-year project manageme...
Siwertell mobile unloader serves Kuwaiti construction
Siwertell, part of Cargotec, has announced the successful delivery, commissioning and recent entry into operations of a new mobile Siwertell unloader for Kuwait-based Acico Construction Co. It was ordered in June to help meet the region's growing cement demands and is now operational in Kuwait's second largest port, Shuaiba, located south of Kuwait City. The trailer-based, diesel-powered Si...
UNICEM orders Loesche mill for new Calabar line, Nigeria
United Cement Company of Nigeria (UNICEM) has ordered the largest Loesche mill to-date, an LM 70.4+4 for its new line at the Calabar cement works. The Loesche LM 70.4+4 will be used at Unicem’s new Calabar line in Nigeria with an output of 370tph at 4700 Blaine. The delivery period is 14 months. The 4+4 concept follows Loesche mill types with 2+2 and 3+3 rollers. The 4+4 grinding concept...
Egypt: Titan Cement selects Gebr Pfeiffer coal mill
Titan Cement has ordered a MPS 2800 BK vertical roller mill for coal from Gebr Pfeiffer SE for Line No 1 of its Beni Suef works in Egypt. The mill is designed for a finished product rate of 40tph. The coal, with a Hardgrove grindability index of 45, will be ground to a product fineness of 12 per cent residue 90µm, while simultaneously being dried from a maximum 12 per cent feed moisture to a...
N+P strikes major Portuguese SRF deal
N+P has signed a five-year contract for the supply of solid recovered fuels (SRF) into a number of cement plants owned by the Portuguese cement companies Secil and Cimpor. The contract is signed with Gestão Ambiental e Valorização Energética, a subsidiary of Secil, Cimpor and SGVR, responsible for sourcing and supply of alternative fuels and raw materials into the Portuguese cement industry. ...
MacGregor wins order for three eco-bulker vessels
MacGregor, of the Cargotec group, has won a contract from New Times Shipyard, in China, for Intership Navigation Co Ltd's three new 36,500dwt Laker-class bulk carriers. Cyprus-based Intership Navigation manages a fleet of more than 80 vessels, mainly consisting of dry bulk and break bulk vessels, cement carriers and product tankers. The newly-ordered vessels will each have six holds and wil...
HeidelbergCement AG announces Fritz & Maczoil as ‘Preferred Supplier’
The VAS IT-Logistic solution of Fritz & Maczoil has become an integral part of HeidelbergCement AG’s “Logistic Efficiency Optimization” (LEO) initiative. A considerable cost reduction in the fields of logistics for the corporate group is the aim by introducing an integrated material-flow management system. Globally several plants in the business lines of cement, aggregates (sand and gravel) ...
Bolivia: FLSmidth to supply new Soboce plant
FLSmidth has signed a contract with Sociedad Boliviana de Cemento SA (SOBOCE) for the supply of equipment and machinery for a cement plant in Bolivia. The cost of the project is estimated at US$180m and will include the construction of a 0.8Mta cement plant in Yacuses, Puerto Suarez, that is expected to be fuelled by natural gas. Álvaro Andrade, national project manager, and Felix Salek, regi...