Aumund wins Sinoma orders in Nigeria and Senegal

Aumund Group has received several new orders from Sinoma Nanjing NDI for cement plants in Nigeria and Senegal, while Schade Lagertechnik, part of the Aumund group, has received an order for several pieces of equipment for two Dangote Cement projects in Nigeria.

For each of Dangote's two 6000tpd plants, Obajana Line 5 and Okpella, Aumund will supply three belt bucket elevators with a capacity of 660tph to convey raw meal, and to feed raw meal to the preheater towers at 520tph. Three further Aumund belt bucket elevators with a capacity of 480tph will convey cement to the silos. An Aumund pan conveyor with a weighing scale mechanism and a 500tph capcity, running from the coolers to the clinker silos, and three further Aumund pan conveyors under the clinker silo, complete the package.

Schade also won orders for these plants, a stacker with a capacity of 
3500tph for Obajana and another at 2160 tph for Okpella, as well as a portal reclaimer to operate at 800tph in the limestone storage of each plant. Additional stockyard equipment completes the supply package.

For each of the Dangote projects Apapa and Onne Clinker Export & Gypsum Import Terminal, Aumund Beijing will supply a double bucket elevator to convey clinker to the silos at a capacity of 1200tph, and several other chain bucket elevators. Those to convey gypsum to the bunkers will have a capacity of 720tph at Apapa and 480tph at Onne. Two 1600 Series Samson^® material feeders with a handling capacity of 400tph of clinker, two Aumund telescopic chutes and two truck loaders for clinker will also be supplied to each terminal.

As a further outcome of the successful working relationship with Sinoma, Aumund has received an order to supply a belt bucket elevator with a capacity of 300tph to convey cement to the new silo at the Dangote Cement Senegal expansion project.