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Argentina: Aumund Brazil and Aumund China have collaborated with Sinoma Tianjin TDI to supply two clinker-conveying orders for cement plants. No value for either order has been disclosed.

Aumund will supply three chain bucket elevators, eight belt bucket elevators, five pan conveyors and a drag chain conveyor for Line 2 at Loma Negra’s L’Amali cement plant. The order also includes 19 silo discharge gates. In August 2017 Loma Negra awarded Aumund the order to build a second kiln line with a capacity of 5800t/day at the L’Amali plant in Olavarria in Buenos Aires province. The new line, which will produce 2.7Mt/yr of clinker, will be located adjacent to the existing kiln line. Production will start early in 2020.

In June 2018 Aumund Brazil worked with Aumund Brazil and Sinoma to supply four belt bucket elevators, three chain bucket elevators and three pan conveyors via Sinoma TDI to Cementos Avellaneda. Cementos Avellaneda is a joint venture operated by Brazil’s Votorantim Group and Spain’s Cementos Molins.

Germany: Aumund is promoting its chain products for use in conveyors. The conveyor engineering company is emphasising its 40-year experience in designing chains for applications in heavy production industries across over 18,000 references in more than 140 countries. It says it has more ‘heavy duty, highly rated’ chains in operation than any other supplier. It adds that its chains can handle the differing requirements between a large ball mill circuit bucket elevator or a high capacity steep pan conveyor.

Russia: Germany’s Aumund has held a technical seminar to mark the opening of its new office in St Petersburg. Previously, the conveying and bulk storage company operated an office in Moscow but it decided to relocate to be nearer to Russian design institutes and engineering companies based in St Petersburg. The official opening of the site was held in late August 2018.

Germany: Pietro de Michieli has been appointed as the managing director of Aumund. He assumed the role at the start of September 2018 and will focus on equipment sales, spare parts and after sales service.

Previously, de Michieli was the managing director of OMG MGM Cranes, part of Bedeschi Group. Prior to that he was chief operating officer of Bedeschi and a member of the board of directors responsible for the business unit bulk handling, marine logistics and mining and minerals, with a particular focus on sales, marketing, design, manufacturing, purchasing and project management.
Earlier in his career he was projects director with Endeco Engineering Design Construction and project manager at Danieli. He holds a doctorate in electro-mechanical engineering from the University of Padua, Italy.

Since January 2018 de Michieli has been a member of the board of directors of PEMA (Port Equipment Manufacturers Association), a forum and public voice for the global port equipment and technology sectors. He will support a bid for membership of PEMA by the Aumund group of companies.

Russia: Filaret Galchev, the chairman of Eurocement, and Vladimir Sushkov, the chairman of the government of the Republic of Mordovia, has officially opened a Euro65m grinding unit at the Mordovcement plant. The new grinding unit includes two ball mills with a production capacity of 2.6Mt/yr, a 50,000t clinker warehouse and rail and truck despatch silos. Eurocement used equipment from Christian Pfeiffer, Claudius Peters, Aumund and KHD for the upgrade project at its subsidiary.

Kenya: Samson, a subsidiary of Aumund Group, has delivered four hoppers with ATEX certification to the Port of Mombasa operated by the Kenya Port Authority. The new equipment will be used to import clinker, coal and gypsum to the site. Peak rates of 700t/hr per hopper are expected to considerably improve the import capabilities of the port.

The hoppers are decked with inlet grills with suction capacity, a reverse-jet cleaning system, air compressors, a flex-flap filtration system creating a pressure differential between the inner and outer hopper areas and dust filters on three sides of the hopper. The hoppers are mobile with powered travel and crabbing functionality which lets them be positioned alongside a vessel for unloading and which will allow them to be manoeuvred off the quay and freeing up space when not required. Samson says that these are the first ecological hoppers to be provided with ATEX certification.

This equipment was sourced to fulfil the aims of TradeMark East Africa - Kenya Port Authority Port Resilient Infrastructure Programme to improve port facilities whilst minimising the environmental impact of port operations.

Pakistan: Germany’s Aumund Fördertechnik is supplying equipment for a new 8000t/day production line that Flying Cement is building at its Mangowal plant in Punjab Province. Aumund is providing bucket elevators, pan conveyors and silo discharge gates for the project.

One belt bucket elevator will feed raw meal to the silo. It is designed with a centre distance of 87.6m and will reach a capacity of around 650t/hr. The other belt bucket elevator will also have a capacity of 650t/hr. Its centre distance is 115m and it will take raw meal to the heat exchanger. Flying Cement will use an Aumund KZB 1200/400 pan conveyor to transport clinker to the main silo. This conveyor will be approximately 115m long, with a lift of 43.5m, and a capacity of up to 580t/hr. The off-spec silo will be served by an Aumund KZB 1200/400 pan conveyor which is 42m long and has a capacity of 580t/hr. The order also includes 13 silo discharge gates.

The bucket elevators will be dispatched to Pakistan at the beginning of August 2018 and the pan conveyors will be supplied in a second consignment at the end the year.

Turkey: Germany’s Aumund Fördertechnik has been awarded projects by the Dinçer Çimento Group and Aşkale Çimento.

The scope of supply to Dinçer Çimento supports a new kiln production line at its plant near Bilecik near Bursa. It includes three Aumund BWZ chain bucket elevators with centre distances between 27m and 36m, and capacities of up to 400t/hr. These recirculation bucket elevators will be installed in the raw mill and in clinker conveying. Aumund BWG belt bucket elevators, six altogether, will be installed in the areas of raw meal conveying, heat exchanger, cement silo feed and in the packing plant. The belt bucket elevators have centre distances between 25m and 145m, and are designed for capacities from 120t/hr up to 500t/hr. Two Aumund KZB pan conveyors with a capacity of up to 300t/hr and a lift of 38.5m will be supplied to transport clinker to the clinker silo of the new line. Underneath the clinker silo three more 400t/hr Aumund pan conveyors will be installed, along with silo discharge gates. Another Aumund KZB pan conveyor with a lift of 25.5m and a capacity of up to 200t/hr will convey additives. Dispatch of the 15 Aumund machines for this order will be in stages, commencing in June 2018.

Aumund’s order for Aşkale Çimento is for a heavy-duty Aumund chain bucket elevator for recirculation of bulk material for the plant’s roller press. It has a centre distance of 47m and a capacity of up to 1250t/hr. It also includes an Aumund chain bucket elevator with a heavy-duty Aumund AU19 chain that has a breaking load of 2450kN.

US: Simon Shipp has taken over as general manager at Aumund Corporation USA, Aumund Fördertechnik’s subsidiary in the US. Shipp holds over 25 years of experience in mechanical engineering, in particular with conveying equipment for bulk materials. He succeeds Geoffrey Conroy, who has retired after 20 years in the role. Conroy will remain with the business as a consultant.

US: Simon Shipp has become the general manager of Aumund USA. He holds over 25 years of international experience in mechanical engineering, in particular with conveying equipment for bulk materials. Shipp succeeds Geoffrey Conroy who has held the post for nearly 20 years. Conroy will remain on the board in a consultant role.