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Eqiom to spend Euro8m on kiln upgrade
25 May 2018France: Eqiom plans to spend Euro8m on an upgrade to its kiln at its Lumbres cement plant. The subsidiary of Ireland’s CRH is installing a new clinker cooler on Kiln 5 at the site, according to the Nord Éclair newspaper. In February 2018 Fives FCB said it had won the contract to replace the kiln at the plant. The upgrade is expected to start in December 2018.
Fives wins kiln replacement order for Eqiom’s Lumbres cement plant
06 February 2018France: Fives FCB has been awarded an engineering, equipment supply and supervision of works contract for the replacement of a kiln at the Lumbres cement plant. The work covers replacing the downstream shell of the 42.2m kiln, including the tyre. The project is part of the cement producer’s plan to adapt Kiln 5 at the site for the installation of a new clinker cooler.
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Fons Technology International (FTI) has replaced the existing clinker cooler of Fabrika Cementa Lukavac’s (FCL) cement plant in Tuzla. The new cooler has a capacity of 2100t/day. After commissioning by FTI the cooler has achieved the targeted process figures with a smooth mechanical operation. As part of the project FTI reused the existing cooler casing, existing refractory, four of the existing fans and the existing hammer crusher.
US: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded CalPortland with a 2017 Energy Star Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award for energy efficiency achievements. CalPortland’s accomplishments will be recognized by the EPA and the Department of Energy in Washington, DC on 26 April 2017.
Its key 2016 accomplishments include a reduction of its energy intensity by 1.1% in 2016 compared to business as usual in 2015 which resulted in over US$682,000 in savings and a reduction of 14,234Mt of CO2. The company initiated a new ‘CalPortland Energy Cup’ competition that compares and quantifies energy practices and performance of its three cement plants. All three CalPortland cement plants scored in the top quartile of the Energy Performance Indicators (EPI) benchmarking tool. The Rillito plant has been certified for the past five years in a row.
CalPortland has also completed several large energy saving projects including the installation of a new US$9m clinker cooler at the Rillito cement plant, a US$14m Anchorage terminal storage dome and a US$2m preheater duct replacement at the Mojave cement plant.
South Korea: SsangYong Cement has awarded a contract to Claudius Peters Projects for the supply of a grate cooler modification. The existing cooler at the Donghae cement plant will be upgraded by with an ETA 5th generation clinker cooler system. It consists of a fixed inlet, the High Efficiency module (HEM) and a moving floor ETA technology. It is designed for a stable production at 7600t/day.
SsangYong cement was established in 1962 and operates the world’s largest cement plant in Donghae with a capacity of 11.5Mt/yr of clinker. It employs around 400 workers.
FLSmidth wins plant order in Tamil Nadu
24 June 2016India: FLSmidth has signed a contract with Larsen & Toubro Limited for engineering, procurement and supply of equipment for a complete cement production line with a capacity of 3000t/day. The plant will be located in Ariyalur, approximately 300km south of Chennai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The end client of the project is Tamil Nadu Cement Corporation Limited (TANCEM), a wholly owned undertaking of the Government of Tamil Nadu, with whom Larsen & Toubro Limited has an EPC contract. The order will be delivered over the next 16 months.
The order includes a complete range of equipment from crushing to the packing plant: ATOX® 35.0 vertical mill for raw grinding, ATOX® 20.0 vertical mill for coal grinding, Pyro Processing System with low-NOx ILC calciner, FLSmidth Cross-BarTM CB10 x 40 cooler and a UMS 5.0 x 15.0 ball mill for cement grinding. FLSmidth’s supply also includes equipment from product companies of FLSmidth, such as planetary gear units for vertical mills from FLSmidth MAAG Gear, bag filters and an electrostatic precipitator from
FLSmidth Airtech, packing plant from FLSmidth Ventomatic, a control system and plant automation from FLSmidth Automation and weighing and metering systems from FLSmidth Pfister.