Cementos Melon gets go ahead for Punta Arenas grinding plant

Chile's Environmental Evaluation Service (SEA) has passed the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for Cementos Melón (Brescia Industrial Group) to construct the company's new grinding unit in Punta Arenas, Magallanes region.

The grinding plant will cost US$45m to build and will have a cement capacity of 0.25Mta, but depending on demand the total capacity could be raised to 0.5Mta in the future, according to the EIA. Cemengal will supply the Plug&Grind^® XTREME modular grinding unit for the project in southern Chile. Cemengal won the mechanical, electrical and automation contract for the 30,000tpa grinding plant with the latest generation classifier.

The plant will manufacture Melón Extra and Melon Especial premium products. The plant will be delivered before the end of 2019 and is scheduled to begin operations in May 2020.