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Camco International wins new contracts with Conch, China

13 December 2011, Published under Cement News

Clean Energy and carbon emissions specialist Camco International announced that it has signed new contracts with China’s largest cement producer, the Anhui Conch Cement. The two firms have been working together since 2005. Today’s deal sees Camco providing assessment and monitoring services for 37 energy efficiency projects, at the Chinese company’s cement production facilities. Camco will receive annual service fees in relation to these projects up until 2020. "We are delighted to sign t...

Recent order for Malvern Instruments

07 December 2011, Published under Cement News

Holcim is using an on-line particle size analyser, from Malvern Instruments, at its production site in Heming, France. The Insitec laser diffraction device is helping to optimise the grinding circuits that mill the finished cement. The Holcim plant had previously relied on off-line analysis in the laboratory. This required greater manual input and meant a delay of around 15 minutes between sampling and receiving results. At the Heming site two identical grinding circuits operate in parallel...

New order for Loesche Automation, Indonesia

07 December 2011, Published under Cement News

In conjunction with placing an order for an LM46.2+2 C/S vertical mill from Loesche by PT Semen Baturaja (Persero) the Indonesian company has awarded Loesche Automation the contract for the electronic and automation engineering. Loesche Automation is to deliver virtually all the equipment, from the automotive engineering to the software engineering and visualisation. The medium voltage switching system and main drives were also supplied, as were the MCCs and low voltage main distribution. ...

UK: Lafarge picks Wincanton for cement contract

01 December 2011, Published under Cement News

Wincanton has won a contract to deliver more than 2Mta of bagged and bulk cement for Lafarge Cement UK. The operator will work in partnership with the Lafarge’s in-house logistics fleet. It will deliver both bagged and bulk loads of cement from sites across the UK, from Aberdeen to Liskeard. Alaister White, Lafarge Cement’s head of logistics, said: “When we are looking to award a contract of this importance to our business and our customers we will only consider those potential partners who...

Oman Cement Co selects IBM Power Systems Servers

29 November 2011, Published under Cement News

Gulf Business Machines (GBM) has completed the roll out of a an IBM hardware project for the Oman Cement Company. The IBM distributor provided servers, storage and disaster recovery systems for the Oman Cement Company, to give them resilient, scalable architecture, with flexibility for future use. The IBM Power Systems servers will run Oman Cement Company’s ERP solution. The project also includes IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for backup. IBM solutions were chosen as part of the company’s nee...

Cement grinding plant for Saudi Arabia

29 November 2011, Published under Cement News


Tabuk Cement Company (TCC) has ordered a complete cement grinding plant from ThyssenKrupp Polysius. The order covers all equipment from the clinker feeding system to the cement bag packing plant and bulk loading facility.  The new grinding plant, with a rated cement output of 180tph, is to be installed at a cement works in Duba.   The ThyssenKrupp Polysius scope of supply includes a two-compartment mill with a 7000kW COMBIFLEX drive and a SEPOL high-efficiency separator, two 10,000t tang...

Contract awarded for 10,000tpd clinker line, India

29 November 2011, Published under Cement News

Reliance Cementation Pvt. Ltd. of India has contracted ThyssenKrupp Polysius to engineer and supply a 10,000tpd clinker production line.   The new plant is to be constructed in Maihar in the province of Satna, which is part of the northern Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.   The scope of supply includes two raw grinding systems, each equipped with a POLYCOM high-pressure grinding roll with 2 x 1250kW drives and a SEPOL-PC separator. The grinding systems will have a rated output of 375tph and...

Cachapuz Bilanciai wins new order from Secil, Portugal

29 November 2011, Published under Cement News

Cachapuz Bilanciai Group has been awarded a new order to upgrade four SLV Cement Bulk Loading units at Secil’s Maceira-Liz cement plant, in Portugal.  The first bulk loading units were installed in the 1990s. After more than a decade in operation, Secil has decided to upgrade to the latest version of the SLV Cement bulk loading kiosks to keep apace with the improvements and technologies introduced by Cachapuz for dispatching and logistic solutions.

Fives FCB to supply Holcim Brazil with 4500tpd clinker line

28 November 2011, Published under Cement News

Holcim (Brasil) S.A. and Fives FCB recently signed a contract for the supply of a 4500tpd clinker production line for the Barroso plant in Brasil. This new contract follows the one obtained in December 2007 from Holcim Apasco for the implementation of the new greenfield 3500tpd cement plant in Hermosillo, Mexico and attests of the confidence given by Holcim to Fives FCB. This new contract covers the EP supply of the clinker production line equipment from crushing to clinker silo and cement ...

Macmahon wins second quarrying contract in Nigeria

28 November 2011, Published under Cement News

Macmahon Holdings Limited announced its subsidiary company in Nigeria has been awarded a seven year contract for quarrying operations near Calabar in Nigeria. The contract for United Cement Company of Nigeria Limited (UniCem), a joint venture between Lafarge, Holcim and Flour Mills of Nigeria, will be Macmahon’s second operation in the country. The new contract is to undertake quarrying operations at UniCem’s 2.5Mta cement plant in Mfamosing, about 40km north east of Calabar in Cross River...