Cement News tagged under: Grinding
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... |
Contract for new CMS grinding unit set to be signed16 May 2014, Published under Cement NewsThe contract for CMS Cement’s new MYR190m grinding plant project on Sarawak, Malaysia, is due to be signed early next month, according to group managing director, Richard Curtis. Speaking to The Star (Malaysia), Mr Curtis said the new 1Mta grinding plant is expected to be more efficient in production compared with the two existing plants as it would be equipped with the latest technology. The grinding facility is to be situated adjacent to CMS’ Mambong clinker line which has also recently... |
Tupi's top-notch mill06 May 2014, Published under Cement NewsWhen Brazilian producer Cimento Tupi required a highly-reliable and efficient raw mill to complement its new clinker line, it turned to Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd of Japan to install a CK370 grinding mill. The project was completed in May 2013 and results show that mill operations have outstripped performance guarantees on several counts. By Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Japan. Figure 1: Cimento Tupi’s new raw grinding mill entered operation in May 2013, offering an efficient addit... |
OCC quarterly profit affected by lower output30 April 2014, Published under Cement NewsOman Cement Co (OCC) reported a 47 per cent decline in net profit to OMR3.70m (US$9.61m) for the first three months of the year as a planned kiln shut down for expansion works affects production and lowers profitability. OCC, Oman's second-largest cement producer, has embarked upon a capacity upgrade project for one of its kilns which, upon completion will increase output by 2700tpd. “Since the project is in the final stage and nearing completion, and as a part of planned project act... |
OCL commissions grinding unit, India23 April 2014, Published under Cement NewsOCL India Ltd has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that it has commissioned its cement grinding unit at Salboni, Medinipur, in the state of West Bengal. The new facility started commercial operations with effect from 20 April 2014. |
Gebr Pfeiffer grinding mill partnering in Holcim (US) Hagerstown modernisation11 April 2014, Published under Cement NewsThe Holcim (US) Hagerstown plant is the most recent USA cement plant to order a new raw material mill from Gebr Pfeiffer, Inc. The order was placed through KHD Humboldt Wedag, as the engineering and equipment supplier for the Hagerstown plant modernisation. KHD has been contracted to modify the existing production line to increase the plant’s potential production rate to approximately 2400tpd and to comply with the new NESAHP environmental regulations. KHD’s scope of supply begins with... |
Recent orders for Cemengal in Saudi Arabia and Mauritania03 April 2014, Published under Cement NewsCemengal has received a second order from a Saudi Arabian client for the supply of its Plug&Grind® (P&G) process technology. It has also received two orders for the system in Mauritania. The P&G units are complete cement grinding and packing stations based on a ball mill grinding facility. They are assembled in Spain with European components and compacted into eight or nine standard containters making it easier to transport. The P&G system has the capacity to produce 100,000tpa of OPC. |
Cimentos de Moçambique boosts 2013 sales07 March 2014, Published under Cement NewsCimentos de Moçambique, the Mozambican subsidiary of Cimpor, saw a 9.8 per cent rise in sales last year to 1.3Mt as the start up of two new mills and a more “aggressive commercial policy” improved competitiveness in 2013 against imports. The most recent estimates indicate that Mozambique's GDP grew about 6.5 per cent in 2013, led by the construction and agriculture sectors, Cimpor noted in its latest annual report. The domestic cement market continued its upward trend and grew more than th... |
Global grinding start-ups04 March 2014, Published under Cement NewsICR seeks out the locations of the new finish-grinding plants and proposed new grinding station projects around the world. Large projects coming on-stream this year include Saudi Cement's new Jizan plant, Sephaku Cement's 1.4Mta Delmas grinding unit in South Africa and UltraTech’s 1.6Mta expansion at Jharsuguda, India. The Christian Pfeiffer mill at Jizan, Saudi Arabia, operates with an OptiTromp separator The need to build grinding plants does not seem to be slowing as producer... |
Oman Cement to obtain a loan to finance new mill project28 February 2014, Published under Cement NewsOman Cement has decided to obtain a loan from a leading Omani bank to finance a new mill at its existing plant with an expected expenditure of US$39m. Jamal Shamis Al Hooti, CEO of the sultanate’s second-largest producer, said: “…while our acceptance to the Bank's offer has been communicated, an agreement in this regard is being finalised.” (Source: Muscat Securities Market) |