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Menzel opens new headquarters and motor plant

16 May 2024, Published under Cement News

Motor and drive specialist Menzel Elektromotoren has celebrated the opening of its new headquarters near Berlin with a grand inauguration party. In honour of company founder Kurt Menzel, the date was set for the 120 th  anniversary of his birthday on 14 May 2024.   The company required extra space and modern production facilities designed for efficient processes and larger, heavier machines. In addition to state-of-the-art machinery, efficient paint shops and test fields that can accomm...

FLSmidth sells MAAG to Solix

23 January 2024, Published under Cement News

FLSmidth Cement sold its MAAG gears and drives business to Sweden-based investment company, Solix Group AB. The transaction is expected to close during the 1Q24 and includes all related assets, including intellectual property, technology, employees and customer contracts. The divestment of the MAAG business is in line with FLSmidth Cement’s GREEN’26 strategy, which in combination with a greater strategic focus on the Service business includes focussing the product portfolio on the core tec...

Flender opens new facility in Sydney, Australia

12 September 2023, Published under Cement News

German drive specialist Flender has expanded its operations with a new facility in Sydney, Australia. The move is designed to tap into Australia’s role in the global ramp-up of renewable energies, according to the company. With its Winergy brand for wind turbine drives, and industrial drive portfolio serving the mining and cement industries, Flender aims to scale up its presence in the country, putting it closer to its customer base.  “For both our wind and industrial business we see enor...

Reliable performer

03 December 2012, Published under Cement News

Compared with conventional solutions, a new drive concept with asynchronous squirrel-cage motors at the Lafarge Cement plant near Pécs, Hungary, boasts minimum service and maintenance costs. And if that was not enough, higher efficiency is also helping improve the bottom line. By Alf Banse, Siemens, Germany and Jozsfe Janovits, Lafarge Cement Hungary. The substitution of the drive system has had no negative impact on the grinding process at Lafarge Cement near Pécs, Hungary N...

'Mach 2" for vertical mills

14 May 2012, Published under Cement News

Siemens has recently launched two new compact solutions for the optimum and energy-efficient driving of vertical roller mills (VRM) for the cement industry. The Flender MultipleDrive offers variable-speed drive and the EMPP drive provides a compact motor-in-gear solution for modern, high-performance milling. Ali Kemal Kücükyavuz, Steffen Brun and Franz Schmeink of Siemens AG, Germany, explain the benefits. Siemens has developed a new modular drive solution, the Flender MultipleDrive, ...

ABB saves Huaxin's energy

28 March 2012, Published under Cement News

An ABB multidrive solution for Huaxin Cement is saving 1.6GWh of electrical energy a year on as the cement producer selects ABB technology for a demanding conveyor application at its showcase Huaxin production plant in Hubei. ABB outlines the benefits of the new equipment. The ABB multidrive is saving Huaxin Cement 1.6GWh of energy a year, as well as providing smooth operation and efficient control of a demanding conveyor application Founded 105 years ago in 1907, Huaxin Ceme...