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Lebanon: Intercem is building a hot gas system for a coal mill at the LafargeHolcim Chekka plant. The engineering company won the contract for the job in 2015. It is the second such contract for Intercem to build a hot gas system following a previous project at a plant in Jordan in 2013.

The new hot gas system in the coal mill plant in Chekka connects the preheater with the coal mill and comprises a hot gas duct with a length of 360m and a diameter of 900mm. The process data of the hot gas outlet of the heat exchanger are of 18,500Nm³/hour at 400°C.

The turnkey scope of supply and services for the project includes:

• Project management
• As-built-survey of the existing plant using 3D-Laser scanning
• Review of the statics of the existing steel structure and concrete construction
• Process- and detail engineering
• Supply of the mechanical equipment including steel structure
• Coordination of the locally produced components
• Supply of the electrical equipment including clarification of connections and integration into the existing control systems
• Execution of the complete foundation works
• Transport management
• Electrical and mechanical assembly of the plant
• Commissioning of the hot gas system
• Training of the operating team

In addition ducts, a cyclone, a process fan and several control dampers, compensators, the complete instrumentation and automation as well as a new recirculation duct with two control dampers at the existing vertical coal mill have been supplied.

Handover to the customer is planned for fourth quarter of 2016.

Iraq: LafargeHolcim's subsidiary in Iraq has signed an agreement with the General Company for Land Transport to transport 0.5Mt/yr of cement in 2016. If successful the deal could be extended for five years, according to local press. The contract is the largest in the General Company for Land Transport's history.

Egypt: The government of Egypt has ordered crushers and apron feeders from Hazemag for its El Arish cement plant. The agreement includes six HAF 22116 apron feeders with spillage conveyor and six HPI 2025 primary impact crushers for each 1200t/hour of limestone with a feed size of up to 1500mm. This plant crushes the limestone to D95 < 75mm.

In addition Hazemag will supply six HAF 1480 apron feeders with spillage conveyor and six HRC 0816 double roll crushers each for crushing 400t/hour of clay with a feed size of up to 500mm to D95 < 75mm, as well as three HGI 1420 gypsum impact crusher for crushing 350t/hour of gypsum with a feed size of up to 800 mm to D90 < 40mm.

The cement plant has six new 6000t/day cement lines supplied by Chengdu Design & Research Institute of Building Materials Industry. The plant is expected to be completed in mid-2017.

Nigeria: Lafarge Africa has signed a US$35m contract with Chinese company Rughn Power to build a 16MW captive power plant at its Ashaka cement plant in Gombe State. The lignite burning plant should provide a reliable energy source for the plant to increase its cement production capacity to 1Mt/yr.

India: Shree Cement has won its bid for a coal contract from South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL) for 80,000t/yr. The cement producer will gain the supply from the New Kusmunda mine in Chhattisgarh for US$14/t. In May 2016 the company announced plans to build a 2.8Mt/yr clinker production line at its integrated cement plant in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. The US$104m line, excluding land and other infrastructure costs, is set to be completed by March 2018.

Zambia: Lafarge Zambia and Zambia Railways have signed a transport agreement to improve the delivery of production inputs for cement production and to distribute clinker and cement products locally and to neighbouring countries. The deal is intended to complement other modes of transport, reduce reliance on roads and promote sustainability. The agreement will run for three years and is subject to renewal.

“We continue to have a high fleet of trucks on our roads responsible for both inbound and outbound logistics, in excess of 500 trucks. The pressure exerted on the roads continues to be high as a result of this activity. Therefore, this partnership will relieve some pressure off our roads as it complements other modes of transportation currently in use today and we also anticipate to reduce the safety risk on the road,” said Chrissie Moloseni, Chief Financial Officer of Lafarge Zambia at the signing ceremony on 8 July 2016.

Christopher Musonda, the Chief Executive Officer of Zambia Railways, added that the company has devised a new transport model to improve efficiency. The Wagon Monitoring and Control System (WAMCO) is designed in a way that will enable customers to have dedicated wagons for all movements, thereby improving efficiency levels.

Saudi Arabia: Wärtsilä has signed a contract to supply a 161MW Flexicycle (combined cycle) power plant to Yamama Cement. Wärtsilä will deliver a full engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) project. In addition to the EPC contract, a five-year operation and maintenance management agreement and a 10-year spare parts supply agreement have also been signed. The value of the order is approximately Euro115m.

The power plant includes 10 18-cylinder Wärtsilä 50 dual-fuel engines and a steam turbine. The contract was included in Wärtsilä's order book in the first quarter of 2016. The contract announcement was delayed until June 2016 due to the finalisation of technical-commercial details and the operation and maintenance management agreement. The power plant will be delivered in four phases. The first part is estimated to be delivered by the end of 2017 and the complete plant is scheduled to be handed over during the second quarter of 2019. The delivery is aligned with the construction schedule of a new Yamama cement plant.

This is a dual-fuel power plant operating primarily on natural gas with light fuel oil and crude oil as back up fuels. This will be Wärtsilä's first gas fired Flexicycle power plant in Saudi Arabia. The plant will provide power to run the Yamama facility, which has a production capacity of 20,000t/day of cement. Due to the plants' remote locations, most of the cement industry in Saudi Arabia is powered by captive power plants such as this one.

"Wärtsilä has a reputable track record in Saudi Arabia and they have offered an efficient and reliable solution for a harsh operating environment. We consider this relationship a strategic partnership and hopefully it will be rewarding for both parties," said Jehad Abdul Aziz Al Rasheed, General Manager, Yamama Cement Company.

India: 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.

Egypt: Chengdu Design & Research Institute of Building Materials Industry, a subsidiary of Sinoma, has been awarded a Euro1.05bn order to build six 6000t/day cement plants from the Equipment Bureau of the Ministry of Defence. The scope of the turkey contract includes construction of six new integrated cement production lines, operation and maintenance of two 5775t/day cement production lines of Phase II of GOE ARISH and the six Beni Suef cement production lines under the contract for three years. The order represents around 15% of Sinoma’s turnover in 2015.

Vietnam: Long Son Company has ordered a cement grinding mill from Loesche for its Dong Son Bim Son cement plant. The order is part of a contract with Sinoma-NCDRI. The contract includes a type LM 56.4 Loesche mill with a performance of 520t/hour. It will grind cement to a fineness of 12% R DIN 0.09mm. The gearbox of this mill has a power output of 3600kW.