Ciments de L’Afrique awards grinding contract

Ciments de L’Afrique has awarded the contract for a new cement grinding plant to CEMTEC which will be established at the cement producer’s existing facility 15km outside of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

The new 0.5Mta grinding facility will double existing production capacity.

The key components of the plant are
• Shell supported ball mill 3.8 x 11.0m with an installed motor power of 2250kW
• Separator CTC-110 with improved rotor design to reduce power consumption and increase separation efficiency

The scope of supply includes the raw material handling, including intermediate silos, grinding section, cement silos with bulk loading, transport to existing packaging plant, electric and control system, structural steel building, civil works and complete erection.

The plant will be fully operational towards end of 2015.