Gebr Pfeiffer delivers first MVR mill to South Africa

Osho Cement, in a joint venture with HeidelbergCement, is building a new MVR grinding plant in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The MVR 3750 C-4 mill will be supplied by Gebr Pfeiffer, a first for the Germany-based grinding specialist. 

The new mill, with an installed power of 2600kW, will be grinding 110tph of OPC (CEM I) to a Blaine fineness of 3500cm²/g and 80tph of blast-furnace cement (CEM III-A) to 4500 cm²/g according to Blaine. As to the classifier to be mounted on top of the mill, the South Africans rely on an SLS 3750 BC high-efficiency classifier with a high-precision cut.

The general contractor for the project is TCDRI of China and the mill, which was sold in 2017, is expected to go on-stream in 2018.