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Sinoma wins Saudi cement plant contract11 February 2009, Published under Cement NewsPrivate Saudi company Riyadh Cement Co said on Tuesday it had awarded a contract to China’s Sinoma International Engineering Co to double its cement production capacity by the end of 2009. Sinoma, which has already built the Saudi firm’s existing production line, will add a second line to double Riyadh Cement’s annual cement production capacity to 4Mt the Saudi firm said in an emailed statement. Riyadh Cement started commercial production in the third quarter of 2007 after spending SAR1.15... |
New order for ABB05 February 2009, Published under Cement NewsABB Ltd. announced that it has won an order worth US$25m from Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem) for equipment to maximize productivity, monitor energy use and minimize energy consumption at a new cement plant. The Binh Phuoc cement factory will be built about 130km north of Ho Chi Minh City and produce 5500tpd of clinker. The factory is scheduled for commissioning in first quarter of 2009. The scope of ABB’s order includes engineering, construction and commissioning services, as ... |
New order for Wartsila30 January 2009, Published under Cement NewsWärtsilä has been contracted to supply a 100MW power plant to be installed in Ewekoro, approximately 70km from Lagos, Nigeria. The order, which was signed in December 2008, has been placed by Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria Plc. The new power plant will comprise six Wärtsilä 18V50DF engines that can operate on either heavy fuel oil (HFO), light fuel oil (LFO) or gas. The turnkey project will supply electricity to Lafarge WAPCO’s existing cement works, as well as to its new cement plant curre... |
New hoppers to increase rail transportation Cemex UK21 January 2009, Published under Cement NewsNew state-of-the-art rail hopper wagons are now transporting aggregates on behalf of Cemex UK, building materials provider, increasing its rail transportation to over 10% of all transport. 82 new Cemex -branded hopper wagons are high capacity, track-friendly wagons that will maximise the amount of materials transported. Each wagon is able to carry up to 76 tonnes of materials for the production of asphalt and ready mixed concrete. The replacement of existing traditional rolling stoc... |
New Order for Timken09 January 2009, Published under Cement NewsThe Timken Company will supply large-bore bearings for critical applications in cement-making equipment used by the Jaypee Group, India’ fourth-largest cement producer. Timken will provide spherical and cylindrical roller bearings for use in vertical roller mills and fans installed at Jaypee Group’ plant in Rewa, India. The bearings will be installed in positions that are deemed critical for efficient operation of the vertical rolling mills. A longstanding supplier to the Jaypee Group, Tim... |
Colo4Dallas Helps TXI Increase Efficiency and Security07 January 2009, Published under Cement NewsColo4Dallas, a leading colocation service provider, announces Texas Industries, Inc has chosen the company as a strategic partner to provide support and security for its IT infrastructure. “Our company is known for efficiency and innovation, and we looked for the same qualities in a data center. The team at Colo4Dallas was very responsive and receptive to customizing a solution for us,” said Len Brown, Director of IT Technical Services at TXI. Brown added, “We conducted an exhaustive search... |
Dust control upgrade for cement plant, Australia03 December 2008, Published under Cement NewsDonaldston Australasia was contracted to upgrade the bulk handling technology used by Morgan Cement’s manufacturing plant in Port Kembla, New South Wales. According to the client, the aim was to eliminate the dust clouds which formed from dry cement bag filling so they would not affect employees or the local environment. The manufacturer’s plant runs continuous production and filling operations, where it fills bulk bags and trucks using a hopper system fed with dry cement product by screw ... |
FLSmidth receives order from Spanish customer01 December 2008, Published under Cement NewsFLSmidth has received a contract worth approximately 20m EUR from Sociedad Anónima Tudela Veguín for the supply of an OK 33-4 vertical cement mill installation on a turnkey basis. The mill is to be installed at the Aboño cement plant close to Gijón in the province of Asturias in the north of Spain. Tudela Veguín has three plants and is one of the largest producers of cement in the northern part of Spain. Compared to a traditional ball mill, the OK 33-4 vertical cement mill installation will... |
Weighbridge hattrick for cement loading facility, Australia26 November 2008, Published under Cement NewsUltrahawke has commissioned three weighbridges at Melbourne Cement’s loading facility in Port Melbourne. The machines are mounted in shallow pits and have access hatches over the loadcells to avoid the need for confined space permits during servicing and cleaning. The company says each fully-galvanized weighbridge is 32m long and 3.4m wide to accommodate cement tankers which are being filled cement tankers from overhead silos while on the weighbridges. The extra length allows the trucks t... |
Recent order for ABB25 November 2008, Published under Cement NewsLafarge has achieved 100 per cent reliability of its cement kiln pre-heater fans, following the installation of two 1.8 MW ABB drives, according to a report by Process Engineer magazine. Lafarge Cement’s plant at Hope in Derbyshire produces 1.2Mt of cement a year. The plant was suffering reliability problems on the pre-heaters due to the obsolete slip-ring motors and control system used to drive the fans. Unscheduled stoppages were affecting the company’s ability to meet its production tar... |