Cement News tagged: Recent orders
Flying Cement orders Aumund bulk handling equipment
Flying Cement (Flying Group of Industries) is planning to increase its production by building an 8000tpd kiln line. Aumund Fördertechnik GmbH will supply two of the main bucket elevators for this project, those for the raw meal silo and the heat exchanger, as well as two pan conveyors for clinker. The complete supply package from Aumund Fördertechnik to Flying Cement also includes 13 Aumund si...
Siemens seals agreements for Belt and Road Initiative
Siemens has entered into more than 10 agreements with Chinese partners in support and exploration of opportunities from the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in projects that target the market potentials of countries and regions such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Nigeria, Mozambique as well as South America. At the Belt and Road International Summit held by Siemens, the company signed agreemen...
Loesche to supply Bestway Cement with new VRMs
As part of an order from Sinoma International Engineering, Loesche has won new roller mill orders with Bestway Cement Company for its Farooqia cement plant in the Punjab province, 40km north of the capital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. One high-performance four-roller mill VRM with a capacity of 450tph is to be used there for the grinding of cement raw material to a fineness of 12 per cent with sie...
FCT wins raw material drying order in Ecuador
FCT Combustion will supply a complete raw material drying system to Cemento Chimborazo, Ecuador. The project consists of a 41.2tph Triplex drier and a fluidised bed combustion system for petcoke and alternative fuel firing.
L&T Construction wins order for cement plants
The Building and Factories sector of L&T Construction has won orders worth a total of INR40.33bn (US$592.74m) in the Indian domestic market, according to a BSE filing. This includes an order from a leading cement manufacturer for the construction of plants in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. The projects are based on a design and build model.
Loesche to supply Cruz Azul plants with coal and petcoke VRMs
Loesche has now sold two coal/petcoke grinding mills to Cooperativa La Cruz Azul SCL for its production facilities in Hidalgo, 80km north of Mexico City, and the Lagunas plant in Oaxaca in the south of the country. In each of these cases, the Cruz Azul group is establishing a new production line. At the 2.8Mta Hidalgo plant, the new line and all existing kiln lines are to be supplied withgr...
FLSmidth wins VRM order in the Philippines
FLSmidth has won an order for the engineering, procurement and supply of four vertical roller mills to three Philippine-based producers. San Miguel Northern Cement Inc, Ionic Cementworks Industries Inc and Oro Cemento Industries Corp have ordered the OKTM 56-4 VRMs for cement grinding purposes. Alongside the mills, the company will also deliver planetary mill gear units and air pollution con...
Gebr Pfeiffer delivers first MVR mill to South Africa
Osho Cement, in a joint venture with HeidelbergCement, is building a new MVR grinding plant in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The MVR 3750 C-4 mill will be supplied by Gebr Pfeiffer, a first for the Germany-based grinding specialist. The new mill, with an installed power of 2600kW, will be grinding 110tph of OPC (CEM I) to a Blaine fineness of 3500cm²/g and 80tph of blast-furnace cement (C...
Tokyo Cement launches ERP system
Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC has fully integrated its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) ssytem throughout its business unites. Providence Global supplied the ERP solution across Tokyo Cement's network of facilities including the main cement manufacturing plant located in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, the ready-mix concrete manufacturing plant network, bulk cement import operations terminal a...
Saudi Cement to use GE Power's Advanced Gas Path technology
Saudi Cement has signed an agreement with GE Power for the upgrade of three GE 6B gas turbines at its Hofuf plant to increase power output and efficiency. This is the first GE Power's Advanced Gas Path (AGP) solution for a cement plant. CEO of Saudi Cement, Mohammed AlGarni said, "Power supply is both a key input, as well as one of the major costs in our manufacturing process. Reliable, ef...
Power Cement awards contract to GE
Pakistan’s Power Cement has awarded the contract for the design, manufacture and supply of a 132/6.3kV air-insulated switchgear grid station to GE Power. The new grid station will be delivered on a turnkey basis at the cement producer’s existing 0.9Mta Nooriabad plant, where a new line is currently under construction. The contract is expected to be completed in early 2019. The station is...
Dangote orders first MVR and MPS mills from Gebr Pfeiffer
Dangote Cement PLC has ordered a Gebr Pfeiffer MVR 6000 R-4 for raw material mill and an MPS 3350 BK coal mill for its new Okpella plant in Edo State, Nigeria. This order is the first Dangote Cement order for Gebr Pfeiffer. The MVR mill featuring a total drive power of 4000kW will be grinding 550tph of cement raw material to a fineness of 10 per cent R90µm. The MPS 3350 BK coal mill with a...
Loesche wins VRM order for Objana's Line 5
Loesche is delivering two vertical roller mills (VRM) for Dangote Cement's Obajana plant's new line in Kogi State, Northern Nigeria. With a total capacity of more than 12Mta, this plant is currently not only the largest cement plant in Nigeria but also the largest cement plant in sub-Saharan Africa. Loesche's order for the new Line 5 in Obajana comprises a high-performance six-roller mill for...
Wonder Cement awards contract to Gebr Pfeiffer
India’s Wonder Cement has ordered two additional vertical mills from Gebr Pfeiffer, adding to the five already supplied by the company. Due to the mill's ability to grind moist material, the cement manufacturer ordered a MVR 6000 C-6 to grind cement. This feature was significant since Wonder Cement uses stored fly ash, which has a high-moisture content, as an extender. Furthermore, the mill...
KHD Humboldt Wedag wins 5000tpd clinker line order in Marmara
YD Madencilik (Üstyapi Insaat Group) has awarded Humboldt Wedag GmbH with the engineering and procurement of a new 5000tpd clinker line near Yiglica, Düzce, in the Marmara region of Turkey. KHD is responsible for engineering and equipment supply, as well as the supervision of erection and commissioning. The new clinker production line will consist of the following KHD core components: ...
Erik Thun AB schedules third LNG powered cement carrier
The third LNG-powered cement carrier for Erik Thun AB of Sweden is scheduled for launch in mid-2019. Cryonorm Systems will supply its liquefied natural gas fuel system. This ship will be a sister ship of the mv Greenland and mv Ireland which both are currently sailing with a 130m 3 Cryonorm LNG fuel system onboard. Shipbuilder Ferus Smit and Cryonorm Systems reached an agreement early Ma...