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Thailand: Switzerland-based Maerz has commissioned a new 150t/day lime kiln at Bangkok CaO’s plant at Saraburi. The kiln is the third Parallel Flow Regenerative (PFR) unit that Maerz has supplied to the site following previous installations in 1996 and 2008. All the kilns at the plant use waste oil as a fuel.

China: Jinzhou Tiansheng Heavy Industry has ordered a lime plant with a production capacity of just under 5000t/day from Switzerland-based Maerz Ofenbau. The order includes six PFR-type kilns and will be based at a carbide plant that is being built by Mundra Petrochem, a subsidiary of India-based Adani Group. Maerz says that the new plant will be the largest lime unit ever built at a new site. The equipment manufacturer will supply engineering, material and equipment for the R5S carbide-gas-fired kilns, each with a production capacity of 800t/day.

US: Lhoist and Maerz Ofenbau have started up a lime kiln at the Montevallo plant in Alabama. The R4S type PFR kiln supplied by Switzerland-based Maerz Ofenbau has a nominal production rate of 600t/day of lime and is able to fire gas and coal.

Switzerland: Maerz has reported the successful installation of two Maerz PFR lime kilns with a capacity of 200t/day and 300t/day at Daesung MDI in South Korea, which was commissioned on 19 October 2019. The company also installed a 150t/day E2 two-shaft lime kiln at Easternbulk Lime Products Private Ltd in July 2019. Three further new plants with Maerz kilns are scheduled to enter operation in 2020 in China, Mexico and Russia and a second kiln will increase production of petcoke at Caleras’ San Juan plant in Argentina beginning in mid-2020.