Cement News tagged: Recent orders
Märker Zement's new kiln is lifted into position
SGS Industrial Services GmbH has announced that the next major steps at the construction site in Harburg, Germany, for Märker Zement’s new kiln line have been achieved. The local SGS team successfully lifted the first part and second part of the new rotary kiln. The first part alone had a length of 36m and a weight of 190t, and the second had a length of 25m and weighed 120t. With two mo...
Medcem orders 9000tpd kiln line from Sintek
Sintek has signed a contract with Medcem for a new integrated production line in Turkey. The new line will have a clinker production capacity of 9000tpd and will cost approximately US$230m. Within the scope of the project, Sintek's contract has a value of nearly US$128m. The company will provide construction works, mechanical equipment manufacturing, supply and erection, techno...
Sinoma CBMI Construction wins order for new Domicem production line
Sinoma CBMI Construction will construct a new production line for Domicem (Colacem group) in the Dominican Republic. Colacem announced, in March 2021, that it would invest US$120m in its subsidiary Domicem for the construction of a new kiln line at Sabana Grande de Palenque. The project will double the existing cement capacity at the site to approximately 3.8Mta.
Bruks Siwertell delivers ship unloader to Ozinga
Bruks Siwertell has delivered a Siwertell road-mobile ship unloader to Ozinga. The next-generation unit promises to secure environmentally-friendly cement handling for the company in the USA. Ordered in 2020 and delivered later in the same year, the 5000 S road-mobile unloader offers totally enclosed, environment-friendly cement handling operations, with the unit delivering a continuous ...
Sinoma Overseas wins Turkish kiln line project
This September, Sinoma Overseas was awarded the contract by Kentcim Group for the main equipment supply and technical services for a 4250tpd cement production line in southern Turkey. The new line will include a six-stage preheater. Kentcim Group currently operates the Muğla Çimento San grinding plant in Mu ğla province. With its new capacity, Muğla Çimento San will look to export...
Wartsila extends O&M agreement with Lafarge Africa
Wärtsilä has signed a five-year Operation & Maintenance (O&M) agreement with Nigeria's Lafarge Africa Plc. The agreement covers the 100MW Lafarge Ewekoro power plant and is an extension of a previous 10-year agreement. The captive Ewekoro plant was supplied and commissioned by Wärtsilä in 2011. It consists of six 50DF dual-fuel engines, operating primarily on gas, but with the flexibility to ...
Fives Pillard burner is commissioned in east Asia
Fives Pillard reports it has commissioned a Novaflam ® Evolution burner for a cement plant in east Asia. Due to the travel restrictions linked to the health crisis, this commissioning was carried out remotely with the cooperation of the customer. The 143MW coal/petcoke Pillard Novaflam ® Evolution burner, with oil as start-up, was supplied as a replacement for an old competitor's ...
Askari Cement orders three new cement mills
Pakistan’s Askari Cement Ltd has ordered three MVR vertical roller mills from Gebr Pfeiffer for its plant in Nizampur. Two of the mills are MVR 5000 C-4 cement mills, which together grind 360tph of cement to a fineness of 3250cm²/g according to Blaine. The other is an MVR 5000 R-4 raw mill for grinding 520tph of raw material to a fineness of 12 per cent R90µm. A SLS V high-efficiency classifi...
AfriSam orders Metso jaw crusher
AfriSam has ordered a Metso C120 jaw crusher for its Pietermaritzburg aggregate quarry in South Africa. AfiSam orders a Metso C120 crusher for its Pietermaritizburg quarry AfriSam's facility in Pietermaritzburg provides a diverse portfolio of aggregate products that are suitable for supply for ready-mix, asphalt, the civil engineering and road building sector as well as to concr...
Intercem Engineering delivers InterHop
Intercem Engineering completes Côte d'Ivoire order for InterHop Intercem Engineering GmbH has delivered an InterHop for fast truck loading and dust-free operation to Terminal Vracquier Abidjan – Sea Invest (TVA) of Côte d’Ivoire. The InterHop raw material receiving hopper guarantees that 30t of material can be unloaded in less than 30s. Truck loading is possible as well as d...
Claudius Peters completes Schretter & Cie silo system
Claudius Peters announced that one of its latest silo projects is now in commercial operation. In cooperation with our customer Schretter & Cie GmbH & Co KG, Claudius Peters has designed and realised a new silo plant that is customised to fit in the landscape at the Vils cement plant in Austria. In the first step, Claudius Peters Projects GmbH delivered an aeroslide conveying syst...
Bedeschi wins Lehigh Mitchell plant order
Bedeschi has been awarded a new order by Lehigh's Mitchell cement plant, in Indiana, USA, for the supply of two apron feeders to be placed in the primary and secondary crushing area to replace the old existing machines. Lehigh Cement (HeidelbergCement group) has ordered apron feeders that feature super-duty design with CAT type chains and Bedeschi super-duty belt. To provide the best servic...
Inform wins transport software order from Lafarge aggregates
Lafarge (Holcim Group) has chosen to upgrade to the latest version of Inform's transport optimisation software for the building materials industry. The software will be used to optimise the dispatch of the company’s aggregate truck fleet. The aggregates business of Lafarge France includes 160 locations and operates a fleet of 700-900 trucks. The new version (V10) features an overhauled u...
CBMI progresses Solid K4 project despite pandemic
CBMI Construction Co Ltd (Sinoma) are pressing ahead with the Cemex Solid K4 New Line Project in the Philippines, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Manila has received regular lockdowns for more than six months. Subcontractors have retreated from the site due the pandemic, material costs are increasing, labour costs have risen as have shipping costs and additional cost from COVID-19 pr...
Fujian Ansha Jianfu Cement's plant to save US$1.24m per annum
Citic Heavy Industries (CHI) recently completed a greenfield 4500tpd smart cement plant for Fujian Ansha Jianfu Cement in Yongan, Fujian, China. The US$136m project is a green and sustainable smart cement plant that is expected to deliver savings of US$1.2m per annum. The design is argued to push the boundaries of traditional design to achieve ‘process automation by design’, which deli...
DMC prepares power supply for new project
Ethiopia-based Derba Midroc Cement (DMC) and Sinohydro Construction Ltd have signed an ETB330m (US$7.24m) contract for a power expansion project that will allow the factory to double production and receive sustainable energy. The project to install the 132kV unit is expected to be completed within 14 months and will be supervised by Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP). DMC plans to begin producti...