Cement News tagged under: recent orders
Weighbridge hattrick for cement loading facility, Australia26 November 2008, Published under Cement NewsUltrahawke has commissioned three weighbridges at Melbourne Cement’s loading facility in Port Melbourne. The machines are mounted in shallow pits and have access hatches over the loadcells to avoid the need for confined space permits during servicing and cleaning. The company says each fully-galvanized weighbridge is 32m long and 3.4m wide to accommodate cement tankers which are being filled cement tankers from overhead silos while on the weighbridges. The extra length allows the trucks t... |
Recent order for ABB25 November 2008, Published under Cement NewsLafarge has achieved 100 per cent reliability of its cement kiln pre-heater fans, following the installation of two 1.8 MW ABB drives, according to a report by Process Engineer magazine. Lafarge Cement’s plant at Hope in Derbyshire produces 1.2Mt of cement a year. The plant was suffering reliability problems on the pre-heaters due to the obsolete slip-ring motors and control system used to drive the fans. Unscheduled stoppages were affecting the company’s ability to meet its production tar... |
Siemens delivers ICT to Ohorongo19 November 2008, Published under Cement NewsSiemens has delivered the key electrical and information and communication technology component to Ohorongo Cement. Ohorongo Cement, the first cement factory for Namibia, is under construction at a site between Otavi and Tsumeb. German based Polysius AG, is constructing the plant on behalf of Schwenk Cement. Siemens did all the electrical systems for the plant. These include an 132kW gas isolated switch panel for the outside areas, an open-air-transformer station, distribution transforme... |
FLSmidth supplementary order with Russian customer10 November 2008, Published under Cement NewsFLSmidth has signed a contract with OOO Kurskaya stroitelnaya companiya for supplementary equipment weighing in at more than 8000t for the cement plant FLSmidth signed contract for in the beginning of 2008. Valued at approximately 40m euro (DKK 300m), the contract is for additional machinery parts, ducts, pipes, bricks and insulation for the machines being supplied by FLSmidth to the plant. Delivery of the equipment will start in the first half of 2009 and will be completed during 2010. |
VDM secures $6m Cemex contract17 October 2008, Published under Cement NewsVDM Group Ltd announced today that its subsidiary VDM Resources & Infrastructure Pty Ltd, trading as Rocktec, has been awarded a contract by Cemex at Port Hedland, Western Australia. The contract is for the screening and processing of a range of core and armour rock sizes for marine construction. The material is required for Cemex’s customer, BHP Billiton, for that company’s port facilities expansion at Port Hedland. The base contract is worth just under $6 million. There is provision for... |
First Trelleborg Scirocco II System for Australia14 October 2008, Published under Cement NewsTrelleborg Engineered Systems Australia are pleased to announce that they have received the first order for Scirocco II Fluidising Hose in Australia. Blue Circle Southern Cement, Berrima Works, have placed an order for a 27m Scirocco II system comprising 3 flanged Scirocco II hoses, associated air controllers, and pre fluidising equipment. The 100mm diameter system will be manufactured to specific requirements of Blue Circle Southern Cement, suiting the exact needs on site. Scirocco II is ... |
China’s Sinoma unit wins EUR169.6m Azerbaijan order08 October 2008, Published under Cement NewsSinoma International Engineering Co Ltd said its CBMI Construction Co Ltd unit has won a contract to build a clinker line valued at EUR169.6m for Garadagh Cement OJSC in Azerbaijan. In a statement filed with Shanghai’s stock exchange, Sinoma said that the production line is 34km from Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, and will have production capacity of 4000tpd. |
FLSmidth wins first cement project in Siberia03 October 2008, Published under Cement NewsFLSmidth has signed a contract for its first cement project in the Siberian region of Russia. Equipment for a complete greenfield cement plant is to be supplied to Russian LLC SGMK Group’s (SGMK) "Uchulensky Cement Plant" close to Novokuznetsk some 450 kilometres southeast of Novosibirsk. This will be the first cement plant project undertaken by SGMK Group, a mining and metals extraction company. Valued at EUR78.5m (DKK 585m) the contract includes all machinery for the 3500tpd cement plant ... |
Water cooling paves way for Garadagh Cement, Azerbaijan03 October 2008, Published under Cement NewsStadco Cooling one of Europe’s leading suppliers of standard and bespoke industrial water cooling systems has recently exported two water cooling systems to Garadagh Cement OJSC, Azerbaijan. These Air Blast Radiators are cooling air compressors used in cement production at its plant in Baku. Currently Garadagh Cement OJSC produces cement through four kilns, with a production capability of 1,300,000 tonnes. Construction of a new Dry Kiln No.6 project is in progress as a result of which prod... |
China National Materials wins Ukraine contract03 October 2008, Published under Cement NewsChina National Materials Co. Ltd (Sinoma), one of the country’s leading cement equipment and engineering services providers, announced that its construction subsidiary has inked a EUR167m contract with Lafarge SA to build a cement production line in western Ukraine. The line, which is located in Mykolaiv, western Ukarine, is designed to have a daily capacity of 5,000 tons of clinker cement. Under the contract, the Chinese company will be responsible of designing and constructing the produc... |