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Bangladesh: MI Cement opts for Loesche slag grinding mill

13 June 2016, Published under Cement News

MI Cement Factory Ltd, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has awarded Loesche the contract for the Munshigonj cement plant. The Munshigonj cement plant is a brownfield project. To grind the blast furnace slag to a fineness of 4000 cm 2 /g Blaine, the customer will use a Loesche mill. For the main components of the scope of supply, a lead time of seven months after signing the contract is scheduled and the gearbox is to be supplied to Bangladesh in nine months. Commissioning of the Loesche mil...

JSW Group resumes plans for Bengal plant, India

21 August 2015, Published under Cement News

The JSW Group has proposed to build a 2.5Mta slag-based cement plant in Salboni, Bengal. Should everything proceed as planned, the Mumbai-based conglomerate may start the project next year. The company had originally signed an agreement with the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-government to invest in a 10Mt steel and 1680MW power plant, which had included a cement unit to utilise the slag generated from the blast furnace plant. However, the project was put on hold in December 2014. But now the pl...

JSW to make switch to Portland Slag Cement, India

26 September 2014, Published under Cement News

JSW Cement Ltd will be completely switching over to the production of Portland Slag Cement (PSC), its CEO, Anil Kumar Pillai, has revealed. Speaking to local reporters, Pillai said slag cement was “ideally” suited to both infrastructure and housing constructions “We have 6Mta of cement production capacity and will be producing only this variety of cement,” he added. The price for the product has been fixed in the range of INR275-325/bag of PSC. The company is expecting an increase in deman...

LEOCEM to begin slag cement production

16 April 2014, Published under Cement News

Sierra Leone Cement Corporation (LEOCEM), a subsidiary of the HeidelbergCement Group, has announced that it would begin producing slag cement from June this year. Head of Laboratory at LEOCEM, Victor John Cole, made the announcement during the launch of the company’s 20th anniversary celebration at the factory in Cline Town, Freetown, Agence de Presse Africaine reported. LEOCEM is the only producer in Sierra Leone and operates a  0.45Mta grinding plant. The company imports clinker from els...