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Penden Cement gear box failure sees output falter

07 July 2017, Published under Cement News

Cement production at Penden Cement Authority Ltd (PCAL) in Gomtu, Samtse, Bhutan, was affected last month as a gearbox in one of the two coal mills broke down. The gearbox failed on 21 April. While in-house repairs were carried out, enabling the plant to resume operations after four days, further issues occurred on 16 May and to date PCAL has been unable to repair the gearbox. The plant’s management is currently looking for a second-hand gear box as a new gearbox takes a minimum of six mo...

Fiji's Pacific Cement plant back online

06 July 2017, Published under Cement News

Fiji-based Pacific Cement Ltd's cement plant is back online, according to Sowani Tuidrola, the company’s CEO. The facility was shut down in late April due to a major breakdown, resulting in cement shortage in the country. "Due to pending replacement of a major component, the mill is operating at a lower capacity at 60 per cent until end of July 2017," Mr Tuidrola said in a statement yesterday. "We expect to receive the new Trunnion Gear Assembly during (the) last week of July and pre-inst...