Loesche has now sold two coal/petcoke grinding mills to Cooperativa La Cruz Azul SCL for its production facilities in Hidalgo, 80km north of Mexico City, and the Lagunas plant in Oaxaca in the south of the country.

In each of these cases, the Cruz Azul group is establishing a new production line. At the 2.8Mta Hidalgo plant, the new line and all existing kiln lines are to be supplied withground petcoke from the new Loesche mill.

In addition to the vertical roller mill with a capacity of 65tph, Loesche will also be supplying the complete plant equipment, including process gas filters, mill fans, inertisation units, explosion protection valves, kiln gas cyclone separators, feed screw and drag chain conveyors as well as the complete electrotechnical
equipment.

The scope of supply here also includes the complete detail engineering for the steel construction and for the concrete construction. Commissioning of the new grinding plants is planned to take place in mid-2019.