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Egypt: Denmark's FLSmidth has signed a contract with Arabian Cement Company (ACC) for operation and maintenance of the production lines at their cement plant near Suez. The contact covers five years of operation and maintenance of two production lines with a capacity of 6000t/day each. FLSmidth has been operating and maintaining the two lines since 2008 and 2010, respectively. Both lines were built by FLSmidth.

The scope of supply includes operation and maintenance of two clinker production lines, one coal mill, two alternative fuel handling and dosing installations, four cement mills and six packing lines. The operation and maintenance of the mills and packing lines is an addition to the current scope.

"Arabian Cement Company was our first operation and maintenance customer and we have supplied operation and maintenance services at their plant since 2008. The demonstrated performance over the past nearly eight years was the main motive for ACC to expand and continue the cooperation with us. The prolongation of the operation and maintenance contract illustrates the strength of our productivity enhancing 'Design-Build-Operate'-model, where we offer to design, build and operate customers' plants," said Group Executive Vice President, Cement Division, Per Mejnert Kristensen.

No value for the deal was disclosed. The contract will contribute beneficially to FLSmidth's earnings until the contract expires in early 2021.

Egypt: South Valley Cement has signed a contract with Sinoma CDI to convert its plant to coal burning for US$14m. The contract is expected to be complete by April 2017. In August 2015 South Valley Cement signed a US$38m contract for Sinoma to build a grinding line for the plant.

Russia: Rolt Company has started project development on four power plants under a contract with Eurocement Group. The plants are intended for cement factories situated in Central and North Caucasian Federal Districts of Russian Federation.

Each power plant will have a total electric output of 100MW. Rolt Company will develop the projects of power plants construction for Lipetskcement (23.2MW), Oskolcement, Kavkazcement and Voronezhsky affiliate of Eurocement Group (15.2MW each).

World: Avantha Group's Compton Greaves (CG) has signed a global supply agreement with Lafarge for electrical motors. This agreement positions CG as one of the select few preferred global suppliers for Lafarge.

CG is one of the few global motor manufacturers to own the complete chain of design and manufacturing, from rotor, stator design and stamping to finished motor. There are over 40,000 CG-made motors operating in cement plants around the world. It has developed unique slip-ring, twin drive slip-ring and double squirrel cage motors, as well as low maintenance-energy efficient motors specially designed for the cement industry, which deliver high starting torque, low noise and vibration.

"We are extremely pleased to have entered into this agreement and have CG as a preferred partner for large motors. CG's ability to provide flexible designs, high quality and cost effective solutions were key factors that Lafarge considered while making this decision," said Michel Edmont, senior vice president of international sourcing at Lafarge Cement.

"Our sincere thanks to Lafarge for reposing their trust in CG's expertise in this sector, as one of the leading players in industrial motors. Our strategic investments such as the global design centre in Bhopal, India, exhibits our commitment towards developing energy-efficient and technologically-advanced products for the ever-evolving market needs of the industrial sector. This global supply agreement is a perfect fit for both the companies to leverage the growing demand in infrastructure the world over," said CG's CEO and managing director Laurent Demortier.

Oman: Oman Cement Co has awarded a US$11.3m contract for the upgrade of pollution control equipment at a production line to FLSmidth. "To reduce emission levels, the company has awarded the upgrade work for the pollution control equipment for line 2 to FLSmidth. The company has issued a letter of intent in this regard which has been accepted by FLSmidth," said Oman Cement. In a recent report, Oman Cement said that its project for installing an additional 150t/hr cement mill with supporting infrastructure of cement silos and bulk despatches is in progress and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2015.

Nigeria: In November 2013, FLSmidth signed a number of contracts with Dangote Cement for operation and maintenance of production lines at its Ibese and Obajana cement plants in Nigeria for five years. Due to changes to market conditions, Dangote and FLSmidth have reached an agreement to end the operation and maintenance collaboration at the two plants.

The discontinuation of the operation and maintenance contracts will have no impact on FLSmidth's Group guidance for 2015. However, the demobilisation in Nigeria will have a negative impact on earnings before interest, taxes and amortisation (EBITA) in the customer services division in the first quarter in 2015 of US$11.1m. Additionally, the order backlog was reduced by US$102m at the end of the first quarter of 2015 as a consequence of the agreement.

Egypt: FLSmidth has received two contracts from the Egyptian cement producer Misr Cement Company in Qena for the supply of equipment for a cement plant which was originally supplied by FLSmidth. The equipment to be supplied includes among others an ATOX coal mill, an OK vertical cement mill, Pfister weighing and dosing systems, MAAG Gear reducers and Airtech filters.

"We are very happy to supply this additional equipment to an existing customer with whom we have co-operated since 1999. Our newly established Products & Upgrades group will be responsible for supplying the equipment - an offering which we are currently expanding," commented President of the FLSmidth Cement Division Per Mejnert Kristensen.

France/Germany: KORFEZ ENG has signed a contract with Italcementi for the supply of a new second compartment mill shell lining for one of its cement plants in France. The system is intended for a 3.8m diameter two-compartment raw mill. A total grinding compartment of 7250mm will be equipped with a combination of lifter and sorting liners. The design work will be carried out in the technical sales office in Neubeckum, North Rhine-Westphalia. Operation is expected to start in the summer of 2015.

KORFEZ ENG has also received an order from a building materials group in Germany for a dip tube cast lining system for its pre-heater, cyclone stage 2. The dip tubes will be executed as a locked hanging segment system tailor-fit to the existing dip tube. KORFEZ ENG determined the optimum material alloy for the application, which is being used for the first time. Manufacturing will be completed in about two months and delivery is planned for April 2015.

Russia: Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply power plants for 11 Eurocement cement plants. The project is part of a modernisation program focusing on energy-efficiency and environmental upgrades. The contract was signed in November 2014.

"Wärtsilä's solutions will allow us to create a high technology cement industry in Russia and provide national infrastructure and housing projects with high quality cement," said Eurocement president Mikhail Skorokhod.

The full equipment delivery order consists of 36 natural gas-fired Wärtsilä 34SG engines. The size of the industrial power plants varies from two to five engines, or from 19MW to 48MW. The combined capacity of the power plants will be 314MW. The plants will produce electricity for each cement plant and work in parallel with the electricity grid. All projects are scheduled to be fast-track-delivered during 2015.

"This multi-plant project is nicely in line with our strategy to grow in the industrial sector. Cement manufacturers and other industrial customers recognise the value of reliability of our solutions," said Regional Director Alf Doktar, Wärtsilä Power Plants. Wärtsilä's total installed power generation capacity in Russia is approximately 1000MW.

Portugal: N+P International has announced the signing of a five year contract for the supply of solid recovered fuels (SRF) into a number of cement plants belonging to the Portuguese cement companies Secil and Cimpor. The contract was signed by Gestão Ambiental e Valorização Energética, a subsidiary company of Secil, Cimpor and SGVR, responsible for sourcing and supply of alternative fuels and raw materials into the Portuguese cement industry.

"In the past years we have invested millions to develop UK market, to provide end users of our SRF sustainable supply concept. We have put a lot of effort in optimising quality levels of SRF in the UK market, as well as investing in the development of sustainable logistic chains. Now N+P has several port sites at strategic locations and the possibility to use a large number of sea containers," said Karel Jennissen, chairman of N+P.

By signing the contract N+P has committed to supply over 700,000t of SRF in the next five years. The majority of the SRF is already sourced and contracted by companies in the UK recycling market. A minor part of the volume will be sourced in Italy and France.