FLSmidth has signed a contract for its first cement project in the Siberian region of Russia. Equipment for a complete greenfield cement plant is to be supplied to Russian LLC SGMK Group’s (SGMK) "Uchulensky Cement Plant" close to Novokuznetsk some 450 kilometres southeast of Novosibirsk. This will be the first cement plant project undertaken by SGMK Group, a mining and metals extraction company.

Valued at EUR78.5m  (DKK 585m) the contract includes all machinery for the 3500tpd cement plant which is specially designed to withstand the low temperatures in the region. Some of the equipment will be manufactured in Russia based on specifications from FLSmidth.

FLSmidth is to supply raw material stores, ATOX raw and coal mills, fuel dosing equipment, a CF silo, a complete kiln system with five-stage preheater, a three-support kiln and SF Cross Bar cooler, clinker silos, an OK cement mill, three cement silos, a complete packing plant and a complete quality control and laboratory system.