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Gebr Pfeiffer wins UltraTech mill orders

17 April 2024, Published under Cement News

India's  UltraTech Cement Ltd  is building three new clinker production lines and will use Gebr Pfeiffer vertical roller mill (VRM) technology. Gebr Pfeiffer SE (Germany) and its Indian subsidiary Gebr Pfeiffer (India) Pvt Ltd will carry out the work at the Happy 3 plant where the cement raw material will be ground in an MVR 5000 R-4 mill. With a 5300kW drive, this mill can grind approximately 705tph to a product fineness of 1.5 per cent R212µm. The integrated SLS 5300 VR high-efficiency cl...

Grinding terminals

16 May 2023, Published under Cement News

The installation of grinding plants for the milling of cement and blastfurnace slag has rapidly increased in recent decades. With this shift in investment, there has been greater demand for flexible and compact grinding systems, ideally near raw material sources and often in remote areas. By Caroline Woywadt, Gebr Pfeiffer, Germany. Figure 1: MVR duty series, indicating ready2grind plants and grinding terminals For decades vertical roller mills (VRMs)have been in use in the ceme...

thyssenkrupp Quadropol order won for South American producer

27 January 2023, Published under Cement News

A South American cement producer has once again chosen a thyssenKruppp Industrial Solutions quadropol® concept. The customer has been successfully operating a quadropol ® vertical roller mill for more than 10 years and has decided to order another one. The scope of supply additionally includes a separator, the coarse feed valve, the engineering of the cyclones and electrical components.   The quadropol ® concept features compact units. It also results in maximum uptime and smooth op...

Drake Cement inaugurates new finish mill

24 May 2022, Published under Cement News

Ricardo Rizo Patrón, chairman of Skanon, the Board of Directors of Skanon Investments and Skanon CEO, Enrique Rozas, visited the Drake Cement plant on 11 May to inauguration the new finish mill at Drake Cement, Paulden , Arizona, USA. With this new project, Drake Cement and Materials continues to expand, reduce its environmental footprint and improve sustainability while offering high-quality products to its customers. The new mill is a vertical roller mill and the draft environmental re...

Kanodia Cement completes Amethi grinding plant expansion

20 April 2022, Published under Cement News

Kanodia Cement has set up a new cement grinding unit at its Amethi plant, India. The grinding expansion is already completed and production began in April 2022. All four of the company’s cement grinding units are fully automated. Vishal Kanodia, managing director, Kanodia Cement, said that the Amethi expansion is part of the company’s strategy to increase its total cement capacity to 4.3Mta. “We are optimistic about the growth in demand for cement in India. The set-up of our Amethi...

Two FLSmidth OK mill projects are completed in Bangladesh


27 December 2021, Published under Cement News

FLSmidth has successfully completed two vertical roller mill (VRM) projects in Bangladesh. The two mills were ordered by Premier Cement Mills Ltd. The FLSmidth OK 71-6 cement mill   has been installed at the Dhaka (Munshigonj) plant, with a finish grinding capacity of 460tph. The second project is for   Premier Cement Mills'   Chattogram plant and consists of an FLSmidth OK 56-4 cement mill with a rated capacity of 290tph.   "The combined grinding capacity of 750tph is currently the ...

Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe to double cement capacity in 2022

14 July 2021, Published under Cement News

Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe (Holcim group) plans to double its cement milling capacity upon completion of the installation of a new vertical roller mill (VRM) in 2022. "The supply contract was signed in August 2020 and the manufacturing of the plant commenced the following month. Civil works for the VRM have since started and the expected completion date for the project is February 2022," Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe stated. The mill installation will be the last phase of a US$25m investment pl...

Semey Cement orders Gebr Pfeiffer vertical roller mill

15 September 2020, Published under Cement News

Semey Cement of Kazakhstan has placed an order with Gebr Pfeiffer for a MVR 5000 C-4 vertical mill to grind various types of cement. This state-of-the-art mill will be installed at the Semey cement plant on the banks of the river Irtysh in the western part of the city of Semey. With this investment, Semey Cement is further advancing its extensive project to modernise its production. The mill can operate with a reduced number of grinding rollers. This MVR feature was one of the reasons for...

Loesche wins Than Thang Cement mill orders

09 June 2020, Published under Cement News

At the beginning of 2020 Loesche received a follow-up order from Thanh Thang Group Cement JSC in Vietnam to supply two vertical roller mills. The two mills are destined for a new cement line at the Bong Lang cement plant in Ha Nam province. The new cement line is a greenfield project. The contract customer for this project is Sinoma-NCDRI, a long-standing Loesche partner in international cement plant construction. The two new Loesche mills type LM 53.3+3 CS have a capacity of 180tph and ...

Flying Cement Co awards Loesche VRM contract for Mangowal

27 September 2018, Published under Cement News

Flying Cement Co of Pakistan has placed an order for the delivery of a further vertical roller mill (VRM) with Germany-based mill specialist Loesche. The VRM will be installed as part of a 7000tpd cement production line under construction in Mangowal, Pakistan. It will grind 600tph of raw materials. The scope of supply also includes a Hurriclon system from ATEC, a member of the Loesche Group, for separating finished material from the gas flow exiting the mill. Compared to conventional ...