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Gabon
Libreville, Ciments De L’Afrique
Cemengal supplied one Plug&Grind XTREME
unit with a production capacity of 350 000 tpy to
the Libreville plant and a ball mill Ø 3.2 x 11.5 m
and 1600 kW, as well as a XP4i separator for
the production of high Blaine cements for special
cement applications. The scope of supply included
equipment for raw material transport from the
client’s storage halls, two steel storage silos as well
as interconnection to existing dispatching facilities.
Ghana
SEG group
Fives has supplied one PILLARD HEATGEN Hot
gases generator for SEG group’s cement grinding
mill.
Guinea
Guinea Alumina Corporation
At the beginning of 2019, Bedeschi was
awarded a bauxite storage facility for
Guinea Alumina Corporation, part of Emirates
Global Aluminium in ABU DABHI, by DTP Mining.
The plant is located in Kamsar (North of Guinea,
Boke Region), and the scope of supply includes a
stacker with a capacity of 3000 tph and a 420 m
long storage belt conveyor.
The stacker can handle bauxite both in dry and
wet conditions, when the material becomes sticky
due to the humidity. The material is stored in two
stockpiles of 160 t each with the chevron method.
The machine has a capacity of 3000 tph, a 42 m
long boom, and a length of 1400 mm.
Sonfonia, LafargeHolcim
A Gebr. Pfeiffer mill has been supplied for
the grinding of cement in Guinea. It is a size
MVR 2500 C-4 mill, which was set up at
LafargeHolcim’s Sonfonia plant in the port city of
Conakry.
Featuring a total drive power of 1300 kW, the mill
has been designed to grind 75 tph of CEM IV 32.5
and 69 tph of CEM IV 42.5 down to a specific
surface of 3440 cm²/g and 3340 cm²/g acc. to
Blaine, respectively.
Despite the relatively small grinding table
diameter of 2.5 m (compared to Gebr. Pfeiffer’s
largest sold mills to date with a diameter of 6.7 m),
the mill offers active redundancy. This means that in
the unlikely event of a grinding roller failing, the mill
can continue to be operated at a throughput rate of
50 – 60%. Only the roller opposite the roller that
failed must additionally be swung out – the other
two rollers remain in operation.
The order for the mill was placed by the Chinese
general contractor CBMI.
Iraq
Lucky Cement Samawah, Tianjin Cement Industry
Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Fives will supply a complete combustion system
including Pillard NOVAFLAM kiln burner, Pillard
PRECAFLAM calciner burners and relevant heavy
oil valve skids, heaters and pumping units.
Israel
Ashdod Seaport Terminal, Hanson (Israel) Ltd.
Hanson (Israel) Ltd. awarded IBAU Hamburg with
a contract for the delivery of silo equipment for four
new cement silos as well as for the supervision of
the mechanical erection.
Continuing its partnership with Ashdod Port,
Bedeschi has signed a new contract with the EPC
contractor Lesico for the supply of two conveyors
with Vackem technology. In the last few years,
Bedeschi has supplied various equipment to the
port such as an eco-hopper for clinker and two
eco-hoppers for grain material.
Ramla plant, Nesher Israel Cement
As the existing kiln burner was not equipped to fire
solid secondary fuel, Unitherm Cemcon delivered
one satellite burner to be installed on a separate
trolley. The scope of supply included the satellite
burner, a new trolley, a new cooling air fan and
flexible connections for the burner.
Kenya
Vipingo, Mombasa Cement
Mombasa Cement already operates two cement
mills from Gebr. Pfeiffer. In January 2016, the
customer signed a contract for a vertical mill of the
type MVR 3750 C-4 for the Tororo plant in Uganda.
In June of the same year, this customer decided on
a ready2grind with an MVR 1800 C-4. The system
was set up and put into service in Vipingo, Kenya,
within a very short period of time.
Mombasa Cement is currently building its second
kiln line at the Vipingo, Kenya, site. They again
decided on Gebr. Pfeiffer for this line and have also
ordered an MVR 3750 C-4 for the production of
cement.
The mill has a drive power of 2900 kW to
produce 150 tph of OPC. Delivery will take place
in the context of close cooperation between the
customer, the Indian branch of Gebr. Pfeiffer, and
the headquarters in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The
design being identical to that of the mill in Uganda
provides numerous advantages for the customer
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