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Babcock to manage Lafarge fleet, North America10 February 2012, Published under Cement NewsLafarge has awarded Babcock International a UK£100m fleet management contract across its cement and aggregates sites in North America. The 10-year deal sees Babock providing a fleet managed serviced for Lafarge’s heavy mobile equipment. It follows the UK£50m fleet management contract that Babcock was awarded by Lafarge covering the UK aggregate and cement sites last July. Babcock is delivering the whole lifecycle of fleet management in the contract, from procuring and supporting the equipm... |
New contract from Cimento Itambé, Brazil08 February 2012, Published under Cement NewsCimento Itambé has awarded Aumund do Brasil and Schade Lagertechnik GmbH a contract for the rebuilding of a limestone storage facility. Apart from the refurbishment of an existing scraper reclaimer, the supply of a new bridge reclaimer forms part of the scope of supply which is scheduled to be employed for homogenised reclaiming of the raw material. Whilst the refurbishment of the old unit was the first to be implemented, the new bridge reclaimer has been in service since the beginning of 20... |
Starlinger delivers 100th AD*STAR conversion line30 January 2012, Published under Cement NewsThe ad*starKON 60 is conversion line for the worldwide patented AD*STAR sacks developed by Starlinger & Co of Austria. In December 2011 the 100th line for the production of block bottom valve bags out of woven polypropylene tapes was delivered. With a production capacity of up to 60 sacks per minute and an efficiency of more than 85 per cent it achieves an output of 22 million sacks per year. |
Al Jouf awards contract for Line No 2, Saudi Arabia23 January 2012, Published under Cement NewsSaudi cement producer, Al Jouf Cement, has awarded China’s Chengdu Design & Research Institute the contract for the construction of a second production line with a capacity of 5000tpd. The contract value is SAR885m (US$236m). The project is to be financed with a combination of Al Jouf’s own funds and debt and is scheduled to take 25 months to complete. |
Eurocement awards contract for new power facilities, Russia20 January 2012, Published under Cement NewsRussia’s leading cement producer, Eurocement Group, is to build power facilities in the Samara region and has signed a contract with FGC UES for their construction. Power facilities to be constructed include a 220kW transmission line and a 220kV electric power substation, SKIRIN news reports. |
Latest grinding technology for Australia13 January 2012, Published under Cement NewsGebr. Pfeiffer SE will supply Australia’s largest vertical roller mill for cement grinding to Australia’s leading cement manufacturer Cement Australia Pty. Ltd. whose main shareholders are Holcim Ltd and HeidelbergCement AG. The overall project will be carried out in co-operation with the Spanish EPC leader Cemengal S.A. The suppliers of the plant were faced with the task of meeting the customer’s high demands and responding to the country specific requirements. This challenge is refle... |
FLSmidth awarded two cement projects in Brazil29 December 2011, Published under Cement NewsCimpor Cimentos do Brasil has awarded FLSmidth the US$132m contract for two cement plants in Brazil. The contracts comprises equipment for the Caxitu project, a new greenfield cement works in near the town of Joâo Pessoa, Paraiba state, and a new kiln line at Cezarina, Goia state. The scope of supply for the Caxitu project includes a circular limestone storage, a longitudinal storage and reclaimer system for raw materials and a similar system for additives, a longitudi... |
Energy savings for Huaxin Cement, China?21 December 2011, Published under Cement NewsAn ABB multidrive solution for Huaxin Cement is saving 1.6mkW/hr of electrical energy a year on a demanding conveyor application at the company’s plant in Hubei. Huaxin Cement has become a model in China’s Circular Economy (CE) initiative.?The CE initiative requires companies to minimise their consumption of resources, reduce their emission of pollutants, and recycle waste and byproducts in their production processes.??Part-owned by Holcim, Huaxin Cement produces 1.8Mt of cement and 75GWh... |
Lafarge signs contract for recyclable waste exploration, China20 December 2011, Published under Cement NewsSparton Resources Inc announced that its subsidiary company, Yunnan Sparton Environtech Co Ltd (YSET) has executed a Letter of Intent and cooperation agreement with Lafarge Shui On (Beijing) Technical Services Co, Ltd (LSOC). LSOC is a Chinese based subsidiary of Lafarge. Under the terms of the agreement, YSET will identify deposits of potentially recyclable waste with LSOC evaluating their suitability for use within the cement-making process. YSET’s initial waste ash reclamation work is a... |
JSW Cement awards marketing contract, India20 December 2011, Published under Cement NewsGrey India has won the creative duties for the new, yet to be named ’green’ cement offering from JSW Cement. JSW Cement plans to launch the ’green’ cement by January 2012. JSW Cement wants to spread awareness about this innovative offering in an equally innovative way, and thus a separate pitch process was held for the product. In 2009, the JSW Group had appointed Grey India to handle its creative duties following a multi-agency pitch. The account size at that particular point in time wa... |