Displaying items by tag: Lhoist
Mineração Belocal buys L-Imerys
09 May 2018Brazil: Mineração Belocal, a subsidiary of Belgium’s Lhoist, has purchased L-Imerys, a lime producer that operates a plant at Doresópolis in Minas Gerais. L-Imerys is a subsidiary of France’s Imerys, according to the Diário do Comércio newspaper. The 0.4Mt/yr lime plant was inaugurated in 2013. The sales is depending on approval by the relevant competition bodies. No value for the acquisition has been disclosed.
France: Hazemag has completed the installation of Primary Sizer HCS 1020 at Lhoist Group’s Dugny lime plant. The project was a retrofit replacing a jaw crusher. The new unit is expected to increase production by 20% and to improve grain shape.
Poland: Belgium’s Lhoist has ordered a FCB TSV Classifier 1400 HF from Fives to increase the production of a limestone grinding plant. The unit already operates two FCB TSV Classifiers following upgrades in 1999 and 2016. The classifier will close a circuit, which consisted in a ball mill in open circuit. The installation of this equipment is intended to increase both the grinding line capacity and the finished products quality.
LEILAC secures Euro12m from European Union to demonstrate Calix carbon capture technology
21 April 2016Europe: The Low Emissions Intensity Lime And Cement (LEILAC) consortium has secured Euro12m in funding over five years from the European Commission Horizon 2020 Grant programme to test Calix’s direct separation process to capture CO2 emissions from cement and lime production. The consortium comprises HeidelbergCement, Cemex, Tarmac, Lhoist, Amec Foster Wheeler, ECN, Imperial College, PSE, Quantis and the Carbon Trust. The consortium will also contribute a further Euro9m towards the project.
During the first three years, the project will focus on finalising the design of the demonstration plant, to be constructed at the HeidelbergCement plant in Lixhe, Belgium once the necessary permits have been secured. The high temperature Direct Separation Calciner pilot unit will then undergo two years of testing in a standard operational environment, at a feed rate capacity of 240t/day of cement raw meal and 200t/day ground limestone respectively, on a continuous basis for several weeks.
Fundamental research on the process demands and performance will be carried out to demonstrate that the technology works sufficiently and robustly enough to be scaled up to full operational use. The project results will be shared widely with industry at key intervals during the testing.
Calix’s direct separation technology is achieved by re-engineering the process flows used in the best available technology for lime and cement calcination. Carbonate calcination occurs by indirect counterflow heating, and consequentially the flue gases are not mixed with the CO2 emitted from the carbonate minerals. This technology is already operating at a commercial scale for magnesite calcination. It does not require any separation technologies, new materials or processes. The technology is complementary with other carbon capture methods already developed in the power and cement sector, such as oxyfuel, and can make use of alternative fuels.
Lhoist mothballs Thrislington lime plant
11 December 2015UK: Lhoist has announced that its Thrislington lime plant in the north of England will be mothballed. The decision came on the back of the recent closure of steel manufacturing facilities in the UK, to which the Thrislington plant supplied the vast majority of its dolomitic lime. A total of 40 staff will now commence a collective consultation process with management via union and employee representatives.
"Unfortunately demand for dolomitic lime from our Thrislington plant has drastically reduced, since the closure of steel manufacturing plants in this region," said Cedric de Vicq, Managing Director of Lhoist UK. "We are looking at opportunities to retain staff where possible."
HeidelbergCement disposes of German lime businesses
03 September 2015Germany: HeidelbergCement has completed the disposal of its lime business in Germany to the Belgian Lhoist Group. Both companies agreed not to disclose any details about the transaction.
The HeidelbergCement assets comprised two lime plants in Germany, the Walhalla Kalkwerk in Regensburg, Bavaria and Kalkwerk Istein in Istein, Baden-Württemberg. Both lime plants were modernised in recent years with modern kiln technology. They generated a turnover of about Euro45m in 2014 and employed approximately 180 people.