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Turkey: Adana Çimento has placed an order for a Loesche cement mill for its Adana cement plant in Turkey. The LM 46.4 vertical roller mill with a transmission power of 2750kW is used for grinding 200t/hour of raw material to white cement. The material will be ground to a fineness of 8% R 90µm. A period of nine months will be allowed for delivery so that the Loesche roller mill will be put into operation during the fourth quarter in 2016.

Previously, Adana Çimento ordered a Loesche mill of type LM 53.3+3 CS for grinding clinker and slag at its Iskenderun cement grinding plant in 2007. Adana Çimento is a subsidiary company of the Oyak Group.

Turkey: Batıçim Batı Anadolu Çimento Sanayii A.Ş. has ordered a burning system firing petcoke, fuel oil and alternative solid fuels from FCT Combustion. The order follows a long relationship with the Turkish market by FCT. The specialist industrial combustion and process engineering company first worked with a certified manufacturing partner in Istanbul in 1999.

Germany: Clariant Germany has purchased the first mobile Loesche grinding plant to grind bentonite at its Balikesir facility in Turkey. Clariant required a mobile plant because the site is due to be relocated. The mill is integrated into seven ISO containers, all the electrical connections between the containers are pluggable and no foundations are required for its erection on solid ground. The mill is expected to be commissioned in May 2016.

The vertical roller mill uses a type LM 9.2 D mill, it is designed for grinding industrial minerals and it has a capacity of 1.8t/hour. The Balikesir facility grinds bentonite, which is ground to a fineness of 30% R 0.063. The grinding plant has a power transmission capacity of 45kW. All grinding plant components from the open loop control to the feed bin, the crusher, the mill with classifier, the hot gas generator, the filter, the fan and the pneumatic product transport are placed in containers.

Clariant is a global leader in specialty chemicals. Its headquarters are in Muttenz near Basel in Switzerland.

Turkey: Votorantim has placed an order for a type LM 48.4 Loesche mill for grinding cement at its Sivas 2 RM project at its Sivas cement plant. The order was placed on behalf of Votorantim by the Tianjin Cement Industry Design & Research Institute (TDI).

The raw mill will be designed with a capacity of 420t/hr and the material will be ground to a fineness of 14% R90μm. The gearbox will have a power output of 2860kW. The engineering for the cyclone separators is also included in the scope of supply. The lead time for the main components of the mill is eight months and the gearbox will be supplied within the next nine months. The commissioning of the vertical roller mill is planned for the end of 2017.

Previous collaborations between Votoranim and Loesche include projects at cement plants in Rio Branco, Laranjeiras, Salto de Pirapora, Primavera, Edealina and Cuiaba.

Turkey: KORFEZ ENG. has announced a series of contracts for cement mill components in Turkey. No values for the orders or client details were disclosed.

The cement and mining industries casing manufacturer has received an order to convert a cement mill from two grinding chambers to one by means of a new mill shell lining system. The new WAVE 35/55 mill shell lining will be installed in a cement mill with a diameter of 4.4m. This plate profile leads to an optimal fine grinding in the whole grinding compartment. This is the third major order for Korfez within two years from a private cement company north of Istanbul.

In January 2016 Korfez signed a contract to convert two cement mills at another cement plant near Istanbul. The two existing two-chamber cement mills will be modified to mono-chamber mills. The scope of supply includes the reconstruction of the complete mill inlet with a new step chute, a new wave mill shell lining system in high chromium alloyed steel casting and a new complete discharge diaphragm. Delivery and installation is planned for April - May 2016.

Finally, Korfez has signed an order to deliver a new shell lining system for another Turkish cement producer. The scope of the order is a complete replacement of a wear shell lining for a single-compartment mill Ø4.0m and 14.5m effective grinding length, the mill discharge and complete new manhole covers in modified execution. The complete lining is as a wave profile type: WAVE 35/50 in a highly wear-resistant steel castings with 27% chromium content. The complete contract scope is to be completed and delivered in six weeks.

Turkey: The Turkish Cement Manufacturers' Association (TÇMB) has signed a two-year labour agreement with the CIMSE-IS union. Under the terms of the deal workers wages will rise by 10.5% from 1 January 2016, according to CIMSE-IS and Reuters. Subsequently, workers will receive a raise on 1 Janaury 2017 based on an individual factory basis. Adana Çimento, Aslan Çimento, Unye Çimento, Mardin Çimento, Bursa Çimento and Bolu Çimento are members of the union.

Turkey: Aşkale Çimento has placed orders with KHD for new cement grinding systems at cement plants in Akoluk and Bilecik. Commissioning of both COMFLEX® systems is planned for the first part of 2017.

At Akoluk the new COMFLEX system will be installed in front of a new 100t/hour ball mill. At Bilecik the COMFLEX unit will allow Aşkale Çimento to increase the existing capacity from 100t/hour to 210t/hour at 3800 blaine. Between 2006 and 2011 KHD supplied three kiln lines to Aşkale plants in Askale, Van and Gümüshane.

KHD's scope includes engineering as well as the supply of mechanical and electrical equipment. KHD will also supervise erection and commissioning of the new systems.

The core equipment of the COMFLEX SC16-3500 clinker grinding system includes: Roller Press RPS 16-170/180 with ROLCOX® system for control and monitoring; Cascade separator, type VS 618 as static classifier; High efficiency separator SEPMASTER, type SKS-VC 3500 as dynamic classifier; System fan HKSK 212/275.

With this new order KHD has now sold six COMFLEX plants in Turkey. Other COMFLEX systems are in operation in Denizli, KCS, Aslan and Batisöke.

Africa: Turkey's Limak Cement is in talks on the acquisition of cement operations in Africa which could be worth up to US$1bn, a senior executive told Reuters, though there was no certainty a deal would be agreed.

Limak, which already has interests in Mozambique and Ivory Coast, has signed a confidentiality agreement regarding the purchase from an international cement company, though the outcome of the talks will not be known for several months. Limak Cement Group General Coordinator Gultekin Aksuyek did not say who it was looking to buy the assets from, but said that it had operations in more than one African country.

"A global cement firm is considering selling its facilities in three African countries. We are seriously interested and have signed a confidentiality agreement," said Aksuyek. "I think we will know in five to six months." He added that Turkish companies had ground to make up in the continent, which has good growth opportunities.

Other overseas expansion plans are also in the works. "We are also studying a possible acquisition in one of the Latin American countries," said Aksuyek. "We may make an acquisition there in the next five years." Limak has 10 cement plants in Turkey and is building cement grinding and packaging facilities in Mozambique and Ivory Coast, which are expected to come online in 2016 and 2017.

Aksuyek expects Limak Cement's sales volume to grow by around 4% in 2016 to 8.8Mt.

Turkey: A new kiln line is being developed at the Batisöke Söke Çimento Sanayii TAS cement plant in Turkey.

Based on previous positive experience with Loesche, Batisöke Söke Çimento has ordered a type LM 56.4 Loesche mill with a capacity of 500t/hr at a fineness of 12% R at 90µm for grinding cement raw material. The gearbox of this mill has a power of 3400kW. Magnetic separators, metal detectors, refined parts for the mill fan and the engineering of the cyclone are also included in the scope of supply. The lead time for this vertical roller mill is 10 months. The new kiln line will be fitted with a type LM 28.3 D Loesche coal mill with a capacity of 40t/hr at a fineness of 5% R at 90µm for grinding solid fuels. The gearbox has a power of 700kW. For this mill, the further scope of supply includes magnetic separators, metal detectors, process filters, refined parts for the mill fan and explosion flaps. For grinding clinker, a type LM 53.3+3 CS Loesche mill with a capacity of 200t/hr CEM I with a fineness of 3500 Blaine will be used. The gearbox has a power of 4700kW.

The commissioning of the new mills is planned in the second quarter of 2017.

Turkey: FLSmidth Airtech - Air Pollution Control, opened its new office in Istanbul on 13 November 2015. Customers, partners and suppliers from the industry participated in the reception. The office is regional and will service the Turkish market and neighboring countries such as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Middle East and North Africa. FLS Airtech has served the Turkish cement and steel industry with more than 200 reference state-of-the-art solutions in air pollution control.