Cement News tagged under: Grinding
JK Cement starts commercial production from Jharli grinding unit, India01 July 2014, Published under Cement NewsJK Cement has started commercial production from its split-grinding unit at Jharli in the northern Indian state of Haryana. The 1.5Mta plant will source its raw material from both internal and external sources such as fly ash from NTPC power plant and clinker from JK Cement’s Nimbahera and Mangrol units. The new facility will help the company serve major markets like Delhi, Haryana and Punjab “more effectively and logistically,” according to a statement posted on the company’s website. |
Holcim expansion project complete, Bangladesh30 June 2014, Published under Cement NewsHolcim Bangladesh has completed expansion of its Meghnaghat grinding plant, achieving an additional capacity of 0.7Mta. The investment included installation of a 110tph closed circuit ball mill, a 0.7Mta electronic packer, a bulk loading system, 30,000t clinker storage unit and pneumatic fly ash unloader Aidan Lynam, corporate Functional Manager in charge of the technical support for South Asia, who also oversees Holcim’s activities in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, travelled to Dhaka City... |
CMS awards contract for new grinding plant23 June 2014, Published under Cement NewsCahya Mata Sarawak Bhd's (CMSB) has contracted Christian Pfeiffer Maschinenfabrik GmbH to design and build its new cement grinding plant in Mambong, Sarawak. CMSB said its cement division had on Monday signed the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement with the German company, according to reports by The Star. Construction of the 1Mta grinding plant is expected to begin in July 2014. The facility includes a ball mill, high efficiency separator and two 10,000t concrete sil... |
Gebr Pfeiffer awarded contracts in Turkey, Iraq and Malaysia12 June 2014, Published under Cement NewsGebr Pfeiffer has been awarded new contracts for its grinding technology in Turkey, Iraq and Malaysia. Four mills for Elazig cement works in Turkey In Turkey, Bilim Makina Insaat Sanayi ve Tic A/S has placed another order for four mills for its cement works in Elazig, situated to the east of Ankara. The order covers an MPS 250 BK roller mill with a drive power of 500kW for coal grinding and two safety shut-off dampers. The mill is designed to yield 35tph of petcoke, with the material bei... |
Shree plans 3Mta Odisha grinding plant, India09 June 2014, Published under Cement NewsShree Cement plans to establish a 3Mta cement grinding mill in Dhenkanal district, Odisha state. The Rajasthan-based company wants to use fly-ash generated from the nearby power plants at the cement mill. “The proposed location at Odapada would be ideal for the cement grinding unit as the ash generated from industries in the locality such as Bhushan Steel, GMR (Kamalanga), Lanco Badbandh Power and Navabharat Ventures can be effectively utilised by the proposed unit for producing cement,” sa... |
To the future04 June 2014, Published under Cement NewsAround 200 participants gathered from around the world to celebrate Gebr Pfeiffer’s 150th anniversary in Kaiserslautern, Germany, on 8-9 May 2014. The family-owned company looked back from its early, rich history of steam engines and grinding mills at the heart of the Palatinate manufacturing base to today’s achievements, which include the production and commissioning of the largest vertical roller mill in Australia at Cement Australia’s Port Kembla plant and the largest such mill in the wor... |
Ciments du Maroc to invest in grinding unit03 June 2014, Published under Cement NewsCiments du Maroc will be investing MAD170m (US$20.7m) in a new grinding unit in Jorf Lasfar, 110km southwest of Casablanca. The grinding centre will have a capacity of around 0.45Mta. Located 5km from the port of Jorf Lasfar, the facility will include a horizontal cement mill, two rotary eight-nozzle bagging machines, automatic truck loading and two bulk loading stations. Storage for raw materials will include 2 x 4000t of clinker, 2200t of limestone, 1200t of gypsum and 800t of fly ash. ... |
Mangalam starts production at Rajasthan unit, India29 May 2014, Published under Cement NewsMangalam Cement, part of the BK Birla Group, has started commercial production at its new cement mill in Adityanagar Morak, District Kota, Rajasthan. The 1.25Mta mill has completed trial runs and started production on 28 May 2014, the company said in a statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange. Completion of the new facility has now enhances overall cement capacity from 2Mta to 3.25Mta. The company has also been investing in increasing clinker production capabilities by 0.5Mta to take its cl... |
Lafarge Republic expansion on track for 1H15 completion28 May 2014, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Republic is on track to launch new mills at its Teresa and Norzagaray cement plants in the first half of next year, its president has said. "For 2015, Lafarge Republic, Inc. is putting up new cement grinding mills in Teresa plant and Norzagaray plant and targeting to start operating them by January 2015 and second quarter of 2015, respectively," said Renato C. Sunico, president of Lafarge Republic, Inc. Both new grinding mills are designed with capacity of 850,000tpa, These will... |
PPC to construct Harare mill, Zimbabwe23 May 2014, Published under Cement NewsPPC said it would spend US$80m on a cement mill in Harare, Zimbabwe, to be commissioned in 2016. The new mill, to be funded by a corporate loan, is expected to boost operating efficiencies. The company is planning to close less efficient mills at its Bulawayo factory. Last year, PPC announced it would also construct a clinker plant in Mt Darwin in northern Zimbabwe and a cement mill in Tete province, Mozambique. Market slowdown In an interim trading statement released earlier th... |