Cement News tagged: Recent orders
Wartsila extends O&M agreement with Lafarge Africa
Wärtsilä has signed a five-year Operation & Maintenance (O&M) agreement with Nigeria's Lafarge Africa Plc. The agreement covers the 100MW Lafarge Ewekoro power plant and is an extension of a previous 10-year agreement. The captive Ewekoro plant was supplied and commissioned by Wärtsilä in 2011. It consists of six 50DF dual-fuel engines, operating primarily on gas, but with the flexibility to ...
Fives Pillard burner is commissioned in east Asia
Fives Pillard reports it has commissioned a Novaflam ® Evolution burner for a cement plant in east Asia. Due to the travel restrictions linked to the health crisis, this commissioning was carried out remotely with the cooperation of the customer. The 143MW coal/petcoke Pillard Novaflam ® Evolution burner, with oil as start-up, was supplied as a replacement for an old competitor's ...
Askari Cement orders three new cement mills
Pakistan’s Askari Cement Ltd has ordered three MVR vertical roller mills from Gebr Pfeiffer for its plant in Nizampur. Two of the mills are MVR 5000 C-4 cement mills, which together grind 360tph of cement to a fineness of 3250cm²/g according to Blaine. The other is an MVR 5000 R-4 raw mill for grinding 520tph of raw material to a fineness of 12 per cent R90µm. A SLS V high-efficiency classifi...
AfriSam orders Metso jaw crusher
AfriSam has ordered a Metso C120 jaw crusher for its Pietermaritzburg aggregate quarry in South Africa. AfiSam orders a Metso C120 crusher for its Pietermaritizburg quarry AfriSam's facility in Pietermaritzburg provides a diverse portfolio of aggregate products that are suitable for supply for ready-mix, asphalt, the civil engineering and road building sector as well as to concr...
Intercem Engineering delivers InterHop
Intercem Engineering completes Côte d'Ivoire order for InterHop Intercem Engineering GmbH has delivered an InterHop for fast truck loading and dust-free operation to Terminal Vracquier Abidjan – Sea Invest (TVA) of Côte d’Ivoire. The InterHop raw material receiving hopper guarantees that 30t of material can be unloaded in less than 30s. Truck loading is possible as well as d...
Claudius Peters completes Schretter & Cie silo system
Claudius Peters announced that one of its latest silo projects is now in commercial operation. In cooperation with our customer Schretter & Cie GmbH & Co KG, Claudius Peters has designed and realised a new silo plant that is customised to fit in the landscape at the Vils cement plant in Austria. In the first step, Claudius Peters Projects GmbH delivered an aeroslide conveying syst...
Bedeschi wins Lehigh Mitchell plant order
Bedeschi has been awarded a new order by Lehigh's Mitchell cement plant, in Indiana, USA, for the supply of two apron feeders to be placed in the primary and secondary crushing area to replace the old existing machines. Lehigh Cement (HeidelbergCement group) has ordered apron feeders that feature super-duty design with CAT type chains and Bedeschi super-duty belt. To provide the best servic...
Inform wins transport software order from Lafarge aggregates
Lafarge (Holcim Group) has chosen to upgrade to the latest version of Inform's transport optimisation software for the building materials industry. The software will be used to optimise the dispatch of the company’s aggregate truck fleet. The aggregates business of Lafarge France includes 160 locations and operates a fleet of 700-900 trucks. The new version (V10) features an overhauled u...
CBMI progresses Solid K4 project despite pandemic
CBMI Construction Co Ltd (Sinoma) are pressing ahead with the Cemex Solid K4 New Line Project in the Philippines, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Manila has received regular lockdowns for more than six months. Subcontractors have retreated from the site due the pandemic, material costs are increasing, labour costs have risen as have shipping costs and additional cost from COVID-19 pr...
Fujian Ansha Jianfu Cement's plant to save US$1.24m per annum
Citic Heavy Industries (CHI) recently completed a greenfield 4500tpd smart cement plant for Fujian Ansha Jianfu Cement in Yongan, Fujian, China. The US$136m project is a green and sustainable smart cement plant that is expected to deliver savings of US$1.2m per annum. The design is argued to push the boundaries of traditional design to achieve ‘process automation by design’, which deli...
DMC prepares power supply for new project
Ethiopia-based Derba Midroc Cement (DMC) and Sinohydro Construction Ltd have signed an ETB330m (US$7.24m) contract for a power expansion project that will allow the factory to double production and receive sustainable energy. The project to install the 132kV unit is expected to be completed within 14 months and will be supervised by Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP). DMC plans to begin producti...
Fives Pillard complete kiln burner renovation
Fives Pillard has transformed an old burner (from another brand), into a multifuel-fired Pillard N OVAFLAM ® burner, allowing it to fire both gas and petcoke at a South American cement plant. Fives Pillard's renovation will enable the plant to r educe the amount of kiln dust, limit the specific consumption and t ake advantage of Fives' expertise in rotary kiln burners to improve ...
Bedeschi wins Secil Group pipe conveyor order
Secil Group has awarded Bedeschi a contract for the supply of a new pipe conveyor to handle different types of alternative fuels at its Outão Cement plant in Portugal. Bedeschi supply to Secil Group will contribute to eliminate the dependence on fossil fuels. The concept of Industry 4.0 will become essential for the plant's management for improving efficiency and optimising the process...
Loesche completes INSEE Cement maintenance at Galle grinding plant
INSEE Cement has completed a week-long scheduled maintenance of its Galle grinding plant in Sri Lanka. The inspection was carried out by Loesche. "As Sri Lanka’s only fully integrated cement manufacturer, we are stepping up to meet the growing demand of the local market by increasing our reliability and improving operations by up-keeping our plants and machinery to globally benchmarked stan...
Dal Engineering completes cyclone project at Mersin Cement
Dal Teknik Makina (Dal Engineering Group) has completed a turnkey project for the replacement of cyclones and riser ducts at ÇİMSA’s Mersin cement plant in Turkey. The project covered the first and second-stage cyclone modification and their riser ducts , plus modification of the downcomer ducts, dip tubes, pendulum flaps, meal pipes and splash boxes of the modified parts. ...
A TEC to supply new preheater for Mannersdorf plant
Following A TEC’s successful order for a flash dryer at Lafarge Mannersdorf , the Austrian company has been awarded a project for a new preheater at the same plant, i n cooperation with Aliacem. The order will include the supply of cyclones, including riser ducts for stage four of the double-string preheater. The new design by A TEC will reduce the pressure drop and increase preh...