Fives has installed the first FCB B cement grinding mill in April 2017 at Entreprise des Ciments et Dérivés d’El Chellif’s (ECDE) 6000tpd clinker line at Chlef, Algeria. ECDE is a member of the industrial group Ciments d’Algérie (GICA).

Installation of the mill followed the erection of the Ø5.1m x L 82m kiln in February 2017. A heavy lifting jack crane system sliding on rails was required to install the Ø4.8m x 17.8m shell and 98.5t gearbox inside its specific finished building.

Grinding mills 2 and 3 will be installed next to complete the cement grinding mills at the unit. Upon completion, it will include three 160tph FCB B-mills with 5320kW drives and associated FCB TSV4500 HF classifiers.