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Wärtsilä power plant for Riyadh Cement Company inaugurated02 January 2007, Published under Cement NewsOn 21 December 2006, the first phase of the Wärtsilä power plant in Riyadh Cement Company, located 75km southwest of Riyadh, was inaugurated by Dr. Nasser F. Akeel, General Manager and Member of Board of Riyadh Cement Company. In summer 2005, Riyadh Cement Company contracted with Wärtsilä for a 45 MW heavy fuel oil power plant to serve as captive power plant supplying electricity to the 5000 tons-per-day cement plant. Wärtsilä has also been awarded an operations and maintenance contract fo... |
FLSmidth to open factory in China01 January 2007, Published under Cement NewsFLSmidth & Co. will open a factory in the Qingdao harbour city, to the east of Beijing, at the beginning of January 2007, Danish business daily Dagbladet Boersen reported on December 29, 2006. The plant will manufacture equipment used at cement factories and two thirds of the production will be exported. The expansion is part of FLSmidth’s efforts to stand up to the growing competition both in China and on the global market. The company has met tough competition on the Chinese market for tu... |
New orders for FCB.Ciment21 December 2006, Published under Cement NewsCAM PHA (Vietnam) The “Twin Horomill®” system supplied by FCB Ciment to Cam Pha Cement Company, for their new cement grinding plant located in the Ba Ria Vung Tau province, has been erected in 2005 by the Vietnamese customer. This twin Horomill® system is based on 2 Horomill® associated with 1 TSV™ 3rd generation classifier. It will start at the end of the year 2006 and will produce 240 tph of puzzolanic cement with the lowest energy consumption in this field. IHI BIMSON (Vietnam) For thei... |
HAZEMAG Crushing plants for Turkey19 December 2006, Published under Cement NewsHAZEMAG & EPR GmbH has received an order from the Turkish company Kahramanmaras Cimento (KCS) for the supply of two crushing plants, as described below. The first plant, a limestone and clay processing plant, is designed to handle 1,000tph, and comprises 2 feed hoppers, 2 feed apron conveyors, a pre-screening wobbler and an AP-PM 1822 impact crusher with discharge belt conveyor. The additive crushing plant for gypsum, pozzolan, limestone, sandstone, and iron ore has a rated capacity of 4... |
New clinker production capacity at CEMEX´s Yaqui cement plant, Mexico18 December 2006, Published under Cement NewsHumboldt Wedag Inc., Norcross GA, USA, a member of the KHD Humboldt Wedag Group, has been selected by CEMEX for a contract for engineering and equipment supply for a new clinker production line with a designed capacity of 3,500tpd clinker. The new production line will be installed at their Yaqui Cement plant. Core components with KHD Humboldt Wedag technology are: • six-stage, single string preheater with PYROCLON® LowNOx calciner, PYROTOP® compact mixing chamber and PYROBOX® calciner burn... |
Wärtsilä 47MWe power plant for Nigerian cement works15 December 2006, Published under Cement NewsWärtsilä has been awarded a contract from United Cement Company of Nigeria Ltd. (UNICEM) to supply three Wärtsilä 18V50DF generating sets and related equipment for a 47 MWe power plant at a new cement works located at Calabar in Cross River State, Nigeria. The power plant is estimated to come on-line in the beginning of 2008. The engines will initially burn heavy fuel oil but, as dual-fuel engines, they will be changed to run on natural gas as the main fuel when it becomes available at the... |
Suez clinches energy contracts with Siam Cement subsidiaries07 December 2006, Published under Cement NewsThe French utility Suez said Wednesday that its Glow Energy unit had signed two power supply agreements with units of the Thai group Siam Cement Company worth US$500-600m over 20 years. In preparation for the new contracts, which are to benefit petrochemical companies affiliated with Siam Cement, Glow Energy plans to build additional generation capacity, Suez said. |
Alberici joins effort to build Ste. Genevieve cement plant01 December 2006, Published under Cement NewsAlberici Constructors Inc. has been tapped as partner of a joint venture to build the world’s largest cement plant near Ste. Genevieve. Washington Group International of Boise, Idaho, and Alberici formed Washington Group Alberici to be the general contractor for the $905 million project. The plant, owned by Swiss cement company Holcim Ltd., is expected to begin operations in the third quarter of 2009. Once operational, the 1,700-acre plant is expected to produce 400 metric tons of cem... |
Compact Power wins EUR1.64m gasification plant contract from Italcementi30 November 2006, Published under Cement NewsCompact Power Holdings PLC said it has been awarded a EUR1.64m contract from cement company Italcementi SpA to design, supply and install a gasification plant at the Italian company’s cement plant in Salerno, southern Italy. The UK-based renewable fuel and energy company said the plant will produce a fuel gas generated from waste material which will be fed into the cement plant, thus replacing the fossil fuels normally used there. Compact Powers chief executive, John Acton commented, ... |
Lafarge to award Veolia major contract to transport cement slag20 November 2006, Published under Cement NewsLafarge is to award the transport unit of Veolia Environnement a major contract to transport 250,000-300,000tpa of slag used in making cement, the daily Les Echos said, without citing sources. Both companies declined to comment. |