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Capstone wins order for Indonesian cement plant

21 July 2014, Published under Cement News

Capstone Turbine Corporation has received an order from Indonesia for a Capstone C800 system to power a cement factory in Balikpapan, Indonesia. The order was secured by Serba Dinamik, Capstone's exclusive distributor for Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei and is expected to be commissioned in September 2014. The cement factory will be powered exclusively by the Capstone C800 microturbine. After securing a steady supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to replace high cost diesel fuel, the fact...

Hope invests GBP3.6m in new Mercedes-Benz truck fleet

21 July 2014, Published under Cement News

Hope Construction Materials, Britain’s leading independent supplier of construction materials, is bolstering its 300-strong concrete mixer fleet with 36 new Mercedes-Benz trucks involving an investment of GBP3.6m (EUR4.5m).   The trucks are Euro 6 compliant, built to the latest diesel engine emission legislation from the European Commission.   The state-of-the-art Arocs 3236 8x4 B11 4-axle mixer trucks, each equipped with a McPhee mixer system, represents a huge investment by the firm and de...

Vietnam: Long Son Cement project could get go ahead

11 July 2014, Published under Cement News

Vietnamese deputy prime minister, Hoang Trung Hai, is considering a proposal from the Ministry of Construction to add the Long Son cement project in the central province of Thanh Hoa to the national master plan for the cement industry in the 2011-20 period, with a vision to 2030. The deputy minister asked the ministry to carefully review the proposal from authorities of Thanh Hoa province. Last year, the government decided to cancel nine cement projects, comprising Ha Tien-Kien Giang, T...

Christian Pfeiffer confirms CMS grinding order

04 July 2014, Published under Cement News

Christian Pfeiffer confirmed it has received the order to erect a turnkey cement grinding plant including silos and packing facility for Caha Mata Sarawak (CMS), in Kuching, Malaysia. The related contract was signed on 23 June 2014. The order, at a total amount of about EUR36m comprises engineering, fabrication, and supply of the entire equipment including electrical and control equipment, installation and commissioning of the grinding plant as well as the complete construction work and la...

Cemento Melón selects River Logic to integrate business planner solution

04 July 2014, Published under Cement News

River Logic Inc, a provider of prescriptive analytics software, announced Chilean producer Cemento Melón will implement an Integrated Business Planning solution based on its Enterprise Optimiser® (EO) prescriptive analytics platform. The implementation will be led by River Logic Chile, a professional services company that has partnered with River Logic to deliver value chain optimisation solutions in Latin America. The Integrated Business Planner™(IBP) solution will allow Cemento Melón to...

Siemens wins Holcim Indonesia Tuban II contract

25 June 2014, Published under Cement News

Siemens has received an order from ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG to supply an Integrated Drive System for the expansion of PT Holcim Indonesia Tbk’s cement plant in Java. As one of the top three cement producers in the country, with a capacity of 8.2Mta, the cement producer is expanding its facilities with a second production line which will have a capacity of 4000tpd of cement. Operation is due to commence mid-2015. The supplied Integrated Drive System will comprise low- and medium-...

CMS awards contract for new grinding plant

23 June 2014, Published under Cement News

Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd's (CMSB) has contracted Christian Pfeiffer Maschinenfabrik GmbH to design and build its new cement grinding plant in Mambong, Sarawak. CMSB said its cement division had on Monday signed the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement with the German company, according to reports by The Star. Construction of the 1Mta grinding plant is expected to begin in July 2014. The facility includes a ball mill, high efficiency separator and two 10,000t concrete sil...

Holcim (Argentina) places order with IKN

19 June 2014, Published under Cement News

Holcim (Argentina) SA has placed an order for a state-of-the-art IKN Pendulum Cooler® with a grate area of 61m² and latest Coanda Wing® technology, designed to replace the existing drum cooler at Puesto Viejo, Argentina. The new clinker cooler will be single-stage with a single hydraulic cylinder drive located under the IKN Clinker Inlet Distribution System (KIDS®) including a Clinker Flow Optimiser (CFO) and an IKN Roll Crusher with four rolls at the cold end. Included in IKN's scope of ...

Wartsila to supply Umm Al-Qura Cement Co power plant, Saudi Arabia

19 June 2014, Published under Cement News

Wartsila has received an order to supply a turnkey power plant from Saudi-based Umm Al-Qura Cement Co. The contract for the 47MW facility will be located in the mountain desert close to Taif city. The equipment will be delivered by February 2015 on a fast-track basis and will enter commercial operation by October 2015. The power plant will serve a cement factory in extreme conditions of temperatures up to 50°C and an altitude above 1000m. It consists of five 20-cylinder Wartsila 32TS engin...

Turkey: follow-up Bolu Cimento order for Gebr Pfeiffer

13 June 2014, Published under Cement News

During its 150th anniversary celebrations Gebr Pfeiffer SE received another order from Bolu Cimento Sanayii AS, Turkey. In addition to the three MPS mills ordered in December 2013 for Ankara-Kazan works, the new order will see Gebr Pfeiffer supply a further MPS 4500 BC mill for the grinding of granulated blast-furnace slag which will be set up at Bolu works. The mill will be identical to the cement mill that is being installed in Kazan. Featuring a 3300kW drive power, the mill is designed t...