Cement News tagged: Recent orders
Siwertell supplies Saudi road mobile unloader
Siwertell, part of Cargotec, has received an order to supply a road mobile unloader to the cement division of the Rashed Al-Rashed & Sons Group in Saudi Arabia. The unloader has already been built at Siwertell AB's premises in Bjuv, Sweden, and delivery was carried out in March, just over two months after the order was placed. The Siwertell diesel powered 5 000 S road mobile unloader is equ...
Domes of the Middle East
Geometrica designs some of the world’s largest free-span domes, trademarked as Freedomes®, as a solution for challenging architectural and logistical feats across the Middle East. Freedome technology "has revolutionised the installation process on any terrain," according to the company, and below are case studies of cement plant projects undertaken for key producers across the Middle East. ...
Terex completes Cemex refurbishment and upgrade of a Demag crane system
Terex Material Handling’s Demag Service team has completed a major refurbishment and upgrade of a Demag crane system at the Cemex cement production facility in Rugby. The plant is Cemex’s largest UK operation, working 24/7 and outputting over 5000tpd. The 28m span, 18t SWL Demag double girder, overhead travelling crane, equipped with a 6t capacity bucket, is situated in the plant’s natural gy...
Loesche installation at Elmadag works, Turkey
Loesche is now starting to install a 260tph raw meal mill at Bastas Baskent Cimento’s Elmadag cement works in Turkey, after a delivery time of just 10 months. Bastas Baskent Cimento is part of the Vicat group of France. The Loesche LM 45.4 raw meal mill, ordered by Vicat Service Technique Ciment in May 2014 for raw meal cement grinding, has already been delivered by Loesche. The German equi...
Loesche awarded SCG Cement order, Thailand
Loesche has been awarded a contract by SCG Cement to deliver an LM 56.3+3 C vertical roller mill for clinker grinding at the cement producer's plant in Ta Luang, Thailand. The new mill will be designed for the production of 200tph of Portland cement type I at 3600 Blaine as well as 150tph Portland cement type III at 4500Blaine. The scope of the Loesche’s delivery also includes premium parts...
MacGregor wins multiple offshore self-unloader order from Chinese shipyard
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has received an order from Wuhu Xinlian Shipyard in China for eight MacGregor dry bulk cement handling systems. The fully-automated pneumatic systems will be installed on two 78m 12,000bhp 150T BP anchor handling, tug, supply and oil recovery vessels and six 79m 4000dwt platform supply vessels. The contract includes system design and the delivery of key co...
FLSmidth wins Egyptian cement plant contract
FLSmidth has received two contracts from the Egyptian cement producer Qena Cement for supply of equipment for a cement plant which was originally supplied by FLSmidth. The cement plant is located approximately 45km from Luxor in Egypt. The equipment to be supplied includes among others an ATOX© coal mill, an OK© vertical cement mill, Pfister© weighing and dosing systems, MAAG Gear© reducers ...
Siwertell’s third road-mobile unloader delivery to Turkish customer
Siwertell, part of Cargotec, delivered a road-mobile unloader to Muhammet Gümüstas AS in Istanbul, Turkey, following an order signed November 2013. This is Siwertell's third road-mobile unloader delivery to the operator since 2012. Another Siwertell road-mobile unloader delivered to Muhammet Gümüstas AS, Turkey The trailer-based, diesel-powered, Siwertell 10 000 S road mobile unl...
RHI wins order at Lafarge Exshaw works
Austrian refractory materials maker RHI AG has been awarded a supply contract for around EUR10m from Lafarge for its plant in Exshaw, western Canada. Under the contract, RHI will deliver material for the expansion of the plant.
Boldrocchi completes new de-dusting project in Egypt
Boldrocchi Ecologia has successfully completed commissioning and start-up of new air pollution control equipment for Line 1 of Suez Cement's Sokhna plant in Egypt. Mechanical installation was completed in October 2014 and after three months of running since the first start-up, test reports show dust emission levels of <5mg/m3. The commissioned de-dusting line consists of a kiln and raw m...
Babcock awarded fleet management contract by Lafarge Tarmac
Lafarge Tarmac has awarded Babcock International Group a GBP41m (EUR52.4m) five-year contract (with a five-year extension option) to provide a fleet-managed service for its Heavy Mobile Equipment (HME) across the UK. This agreement covers over 400 assets across 189 sites and is in addition to the existing fleet management arrangement currently in operation, awarded to Babcock in 2011. Babc...
Dyckerhoff and N+P extend supply agreement
N+P is to extend its cooperation with Dyckerhoff AG by securing a new order for the delivery of high-quality Subcoal® pellets. Subcoal is produced at the Qlyte facility in Delfzijl, The Netherlands. The facility produces about 65,000tpa of Subcoal®, whereby it processes around 100,000t of non-recyclable paper-plastic waste fractions which otherwise would have been sent to landfill or waste i...
Pakistan: Attock Cement signs agreement for coal-fired plant
Attock Cement Ltd and K-Electric have agreed to establish a 40MW coal-fired plant, enough to power the cement producer’s Pakistan-based plant while surplus electricity will be sold back to the grid. “Attock Cement has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with K-Electric for the installation of 40MW coal fired plant at its factory in Hub, Balochistan for its own utilisation and sell surpl...
Colombia: FLSmidth to supply 2800tpd Cemex line
FLSmidth has been awarded the contract to supply a 2800tpd cement line for Cemex’s new Cementera del Magdalena Media cement plant in Antioquia, Colombia. The contract includes the engineering, project management and commissioning as well as all key production equipment, including an FRM mill for raw grinding, an ATOX coal mill, a five-stage ILC preheater with a low-NOx calciner, an FLSmidth ...
Euromecc completes installation of Catania cement distribution terminal
Euromecc Srl has completed the installation of a new storage and distribution terminal at the port of Catania, Sicily, for cement distributor Cata Beton. The turnkey project included the installation of two circular silos with a total storage capacity of 8000t. A double discharge cone enables the continuous feeding of tankers through extractor screws equipped with two dedusting telescopic di...
Gebr Pfeiffer to supply raw mill to new Itacamba cement plant
Itacamba Cemento SA has awarded Gebr Pfeiffer Inc the contract for a raw mill which will be installed at the cement producer's new 2000tpd cement plant in the Bolivian municipality of Yacuces. Gebr Pfeiffer has been selected to supply the raw material grinding system using an MPS 3750 B mill as its key component. Raw material output will be 210tph with a fineness of 14 per cent residue on 90µ...