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Loesche wins new Venezuelan contract

10 April 2015, Published under Cement News

AVIC International Beijing has commissioned Loesche with the delivery of two vertical roller grinding mills for the INVECEM cement plant in Monay, Venezuela. Core components of the order include a Loesche LM 53.3+3C for grinding clinker and an LM 48.4 raw meal mill. The new cement plant in Monay in the federal state of Trujillo is a joint project of both the governments in Venezuela and China, who have agreed to build three new cement plants in Venezuela, each with a production capacity of ...

FCB TSV™ Classifier for Lafarge Ain Sokhna plant

07 April 2015, Published under Cement News

Fives will supply a new high-efficiency separator for the Lafarge Cement Egypt petcoke grinding unit in the frame of its conversion from open to close circuit by Imsat (Romania). Thanks to the installation of the FCB TSV™ Classifier the grinding plant will produce 90tph of pulverised petcoke with R90µm ≤ 5 per cent, as required by LCE to shift from the conventional fuel used presently for the pyroprocess to petcoke. This project is aiming at relieving the stress on the cement plant due to...

Penna to construct Maharashtra grinding unit

31 March 2015, Published under Cement News

Penna Cement Industries to set up a cement grinding unit with a capacity of 0.7Mta at Daund, in the Pune district of Maharashtra. The estimated cost of the project is INR2bn (US$32m). Gannon Dunkerley Co will be the project contractor and Walchandnagar Industries has been awarded the contract for equipment supplier.

Loesche installation at Elmadag works, Turkey

25 March 2015, Published under Cement News

Loesche is now starting to install a 260tph raw meal mill at Bastas Baskent Cimento’s Elmadag cement works in Turkey, after a delivery time of just 10 months. Bastas Baskent Cimento is part of the Vicat group of France. The Loesche LM 45.4 raw meal mill, ordered by Vicat Service Technique Ciment in May 2014 for raw meal cement grinding, has already been delivered by Loesche. The German equipment supplier has previously equipped vertical roller grinding mills for the Elmadag factory as wel...

Loesche awarded SCG Cement order, Thailand

13 March 2015, Published under Cement News

Loesche has been awarded a contract by SCG Cement to deliver an LM 56.3+3 C vertical roller mill for clinker grinding at the cement producer's plant in Ta Luang, Thailand. The new mill will be designed for the production of 200tph of Portland cement type I at 3600 Blaine as well as 150tph Portland cement type III at 4500Blaine. The scope of the Loesche’s delivery also includes premium parts such as the mill motor, the mill fan as well as an LSVS-classifier. Commissioning of the LM 56.3+3...

HeidelbergCement inaugurates Scantogo clinker plant, Togo

12 March 2015, Published under Cement News

HeidelbergCement inaugurated the 1.5Mta new greenfield Scantogo clinker plant in Togo on 6 March 2015. The new US$250m plant is located at Tabligbo, some 80km north east of the capital city Lomé. More than 2000 guests attended the ceremony, among them the president of the Republic of Togo, the president of the National Assembly and the German ambassador in Togo. With the Scantogo investment, HeidelbergCement has become the largest German foreign investor in Togo. The new US$250m gre...

PPC Zimbabwe on course for 2016 mill commissioning

09 March 2015, Published under Cement News

PPC Zimbabwe Ltd is expected to commission its new cement mill at its plant in Harare next year, an official has said. "We are spending about $75m on our Harare mill this year and we are expecting to commission it in the first quarter of 2016," PPC Zimbabwe managing director Njombo Lekula told AllAfrica news. Mr Lekula said that the company was also investing over $6m dollars on their Bulawayo and Colleen Bawn plants aimed at improving production. "We will be spending about $6.4m for our ...

Shree commissions cement mill at Chhattisgarh, India

03 March 2015, Published under Cement News

Shree Cement has commissioned a 2.6Mta cement mill at Baloda Bazar near Raipur in Chhattisgarh, India, on 24 February 2015, the company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. Shree Cement’s eight cement plants in Rajasthan and one grinding unit in Uttrakhand have an aggregate capacity of 13.5Mta.

Egypt: ACC secures loan to part-finance expansion

26 February 2015, Published under Cement News

Arabian Cement Company (ACC) said it signed Wednesday an agreement with Saudi British Bank for a SAR400m (US$106.6m) Islamic financing. The loan is to be repaid over a period of five years, including a one-year grace period. The cement firm said it will use the loan to finance part of the first phase of an expansion project to enhance grinding capacity.

KORFEZ awarded Italcementi project in France

25 February 2015, Published under Cement News

KORFEZ ENG has signed a contract with Italcementi Group for the supply of a new second compartment mill shell lining for one of the cement producer’s plants in France. This system is intended for a 3.80m diameter two-compartment raw mill. A total grinding compartment of 7250mm will be equipped with a combination of lifter and sorting liners. The order is supplemented with a free mill inspection so that all the necessary information and dimensions  that form a basis for the design can be g...