Cement News tagged under: Austria
Baumit invests in new clinker cooler25 August 2021, Published under Cement NewsBaumit's Wopfing cement plant in Piestingtal, Austria, has invested EUR5.6m in the modernisation of the plant's clinker cooler. "The new clinker cooler uses an innovative cooling system that saves us almost 20mkWh of energy per year in the cement works – 90 per cent of which is thermal energy and 10 per cent electrical energy," explains Manfred Tisch, technical director of Baumit GmbH. "This corresponds to the energy consumption of 1000 households per year." The clinker cooler typ... |
A TEC to supply new preheater for Mannersdorf plant19 August 2021, Published under Cement NewsFollowing A TEC’s successful order for a flash dryer at Lafarge Mannersdorf , the Austrian company has been awarded a project for a new preheater at the same plant, i n cooperation with Aliacem. The order will include the supply of cyclones, including riser ducts for stage four of the double-string preheater. The new design by A TEC will reduce the pressure drop and increase preheater efficiency. The project will be realised in the upcoming winter maintenance stop in 2022. |
Loesche to supply a raw material grinding plant to Mannersdorf plant02 March 2021, Published under Cement NewsLoesche received an order to supply a raw material grinding plant to the Lafarge cement plant Mannersdorf at the end of 2020. Lafarge Zementwerke GmbH (LafargeHolcim) in Austria operates the Mannersdorf and Retznei plants with a cement capacity of approximately 1.6Mta. In recent years, the customer had carried out extensive modernisations of the Mannersdorf cement plant. For example, the entire pyroprocess meets the latest standards and alternative fuels are being successfully used. La... |
Lafarge Mannersdorf orders new BEUMER conveying system23 February 2021, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Zementwerke GmbH in Mannersdorf, Austria, has awarded the contract for a conveying system for alternative fuels and materials to BEUMER Group. The Mannersdorf plant uses plastic waste as an alternative fuel and raw materials. However, when the old conveying system was irreparably damaged after a fire in June 2020, the company commissioned BEUMER Group to supply a new and more powerful system. The order includes two pipe conveyors, which convey the material. The first conveyor has... |
CTP Team presses ahead with ESP conversion at Rohdorfer Zement10 February 2021, Published under Cement NewsCTP Team SRL is currently working at the site of Rohdorfer Zement, Austria, where the assembly activities of a dust emission control project are on-going. The EPC project is aimed at replacing the existing two electrostatic precipitators (ESPs) on the kiln raw mill with one new fabric filter with a design capacity of 450,000Am 3 /h. The new fabric filter will capture 186t of dust, the equivalent of nine trucks at full load each hour. Dust emission levels at stack will be compli... |
Lafarge Zementwerke orders A TEC Flash Dryer for Mannersdorf24 November 2020, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Zementwerke GmbH awarded A TEC the contract for the implementation of the Flash Dryer to be installed at its 1.1Mta Mannersdorf plant in Austria. The dryer will help the plant to reduce the moisture content of RDF for the kiln burner. The A TEC Flash Dryer enables the use of various waste heat sources (including clinker cooler flue gas, bypass gas, preheater gas). The material is dosed to the hot gas flow in the flash dryer and transported with this gas flow, while the moisture is e... |
LafargeHolcim's Mannersdorf plant set for carbon capture project29 June 2020, Published under Cement NewsAustria’s energy and petrochemicals company OMV and polymers firm Borealis have signed a memorandum of understanding with Verbund and LafargeHolcim to jointly develop the “Carbon2ProductAustria” (C2PAT) project, which aims to capture almost 100 per cent of the 700,000tpa of CO 2 emitted from LafargeHolcim’s cement plant in Mannersdorf. The CO 2 is expected to be transformed to renewable-based hydrocarbons, which in turn can be used to produce fuel or a feedstock to manufacture value-add... |
RHI Magnesita launches new brick at Mannersdorf plant23 June 2020, Published under Cement NewsRHI Magnesita’s new ANKRAL LC series of refractory bricks has had its first usage in a pilot project at LafargeHolcim’s Mannersdorf facility in Austria. The bricks reuse secondary recycled materials from rotary cement kilns, without compromising the technical requirements and specifications required from the material. The materials were previously considered unsuitable for further use in the production process of magnesite bricks, because in most cases they contain a high amount of infilt... |
Experiences with alternative fuels12 June 2020, Published under Cement NewsThis week Cemtech hosted a live webinar on best practice for alternative fuels (AF) with renowned speakers from VDZ, FLSmidth and W&P Zement explaining how the cement industry has been developing its AF substitution rates in Europe. Starting the webinar was Dr Volker Hoenig, managing director of VDZ, which represents the German cement industry, discussed the evolution of AF in Germany. He stressed the most important aspects of using AF were the four core elements of: transparency, quality c... |
Fire at Mannersdorf cement works09 June 2020, Published under Cement NewsA fire broke out at Lafarge Zementwerke’s Mannersdorf cement plant in Austria at around 19h on Sunday, 7 June 2020. According to the company, the starting point was the fuel store and the fire spread to a conveyor system. However, the cause of the fire is not yet known. Five people were working at the 1.1Mta plant, the largest in Austria, at the time and all were brought to safety. By 20.30h the fire had been brought under control and despite considerable damage, production in the plant re... |