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Better Bangladesh grinding

07 January 2013, Published under Cement News

With the Bangladeshi cement market holding the promise of steady growth, HeidelbergCement expanded the capacity of its Chittagong grinding facility by installing an additional mill. HeidelbergCement Bangladesh Ltd explains the project. HeidelbergCement recently brought its new, 0.8Mta ball mill online, enabling the company to better meet growing demand in Bangladesh In 2007, HeidelbergCement Bangladesh Ltd (HCBL) decided, in view of domestic growing demand, to increase the gr...

Gebr Pfeiffer to supply VRM to Scantogo

26 November 2012, Published under Cement News

Sinoma-owned Chengdu Design & Research Institute of Building Materials Industry Co Ltd, the general contractor for Scantogo's new 5000tpd cement production line in Togo, has awarded Gebr Pfeiffer SE the contract for an MPS 5000 B vertical roller mill for raw material grinding. The new MPS raw mill for the HeidelbergCement-owned subsidiary will have a rated capacity of 410tph and has been designed to process raw material with a particularly-high moisture content of 15%. Apart from the s...

Loesche mill increases lignite dust production by 0.5Mta

22 November 2012, Published under Cement News

Germany’s Loesche GmbH commissioned the new coal mill, type LM 28.3D at RWE Power AG’s Ville/Berrenrath plant. The new vertical roller mill will cover the increasing demand for lignite dust. Loesche not only delivered the technology and complete process equipment but also prepared the complete mill building as the general contractor. The new mill is expected to increase the production of pulverised lignite dust by 0.5Mta.

MPS: more than meets the eye

19 November 2012, Published under Cement News

Vertical roller mills are not only used for grinding cement raw materials but also find an application in grinding a wide variety of coal types in cement and power plants. Gebr Pfeiffer SE (GPSE) describes its vertical roller mills for coal grinding and provides a case study of an MPS225BK installed at CBR’s Lixhe cement works in Belgium. By Dr Caroline Woywadt and Rüdiger Sonnen, Gebr Pfeiffer SE, Germany. Figure 1: MPS coal grinding mill with SLS high-efficiency classifier ...

High-efficiency cement grinding

17 September 2012, Published under Cement News

For more than a quarter of a century the ThyssenKrupp Polysius’ POLYCOM® high-pressure grinding roll (HPGR) has been in successful operation. More than 65 of the presses are working in highly-efficient clinker grinding systems around the world. By using the POLYCOM as a stand-alone grinding machine (finish grinding circuit) a reduction in specific power consumption of around 50 per cent compared to conventional ball mill circuits is achievable. The high compression stressing applied inside t...