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Algeria: Fives installed the first FCB B cement grinding mill in early April 2017 at Entreprise des Ciments et Dérivés d’El Chellif’s (ECDE) 6000t/day clinker production line at Chlef. Installation of the mill followed the erection of the FCB kiln (Ø 5.1 x L 82m) in February 2017. A heavy lifting jack crane system sliding on rails was required to install the 4.8 x 17.8m shell and 98.5t gearbox inside its specific finished building. Grinding mills no. 2 and no. 3 will be installed next to complete the cement grinding mills at the unit. Once complete it will include three 160t/hr FCB B-mills with 5320kW drives and associated FCB TSV4500 HF classifiers. ECDE is a member of the industrial group Ciments d’Algérie (GICA).

Algeria: ThyssenKrupp’s Industrial Solutions has been awarded a contract by Société des Ciments de Sigus, part of Groupe Industriel des Ciments d’Algérie (GICA), to build a cement plant at Sigus, in the Wilaya of Oum El Bouaghi, near Constantine. The plant will have a clinker production capacity of 6000t/day. Operation is planned to start in early 2019. No exact value for the order was disclosed but it was placed above US$100m.

GICA has launched several projects to increase its cement production capacity from 12Mt/yr to 20Mt/yr by 2019. ThyssenKrupp previously received an order from GICA in 2013 to build a 6000t/day cement plant.

Algeria: Abdesslam Bouchouareb, the Minister of Industry and Mining, has inaugurated the second production unit at the Ain El Kebira (SCAEK) cement plant near Setif. The new unit will have a cement production capacity of 2Mt/yr, according to the Algerian Press Service. The plant is controlled by the government backed Groupe Industriel des Ciments d'Algérie (GICA).

Bouchouare announced that the 1.5Mt/yr Adrar cement plant is due to be commissioned by April 2017 and the 2Mt/yr Chlef plant by October 2017. He added that national cement production is expected to increase by 5.5Mt/yr in 2017, allowing Algeria to export its surplus by early 2018.

Algeria: Groupe Industriel des Ciments d'Algérie (GICA), the government-owned cement producer, has launched the certification process of its oil well cement ahead of plans to produce the product itself. A sample batch of 300t was produced in November 2016, according to the Algeria Press Service. Rabah Guessoum, the chief executive officer of GICA, said that the cement will produced at the company’s Setif plant and sold to Sonatrach group and foreign oil companies. A national demand of around 300,000t/yr is anticipated.