Concrete Plants, Equipment & Applications

The Kominvest AKMT company, the official distributor of Finland-based Amomatic, and the State Committee for Transport and Road Construction of the Bashkir Republic in Russia, have signed a contract over supplies for five modular asphalt and concrete plants in Kumertau. The equipment is to be installed by May 2012.The agreement also includes the possibility of metal structures output for Amomatic in the republic.

HeidelbergCement has officially inaugurates a new cement mill at its plant in the seaport Chittagong, Bangladesh. The ball mill has a grinding capacity of about 0.8million tonnes. The investment costs amount to approximately €12.65 million, and test runs of the new mill were conducted successfully at the end of 2011.

A consortium presided over by ABM Solid has signed a contract to carry out works at the cement plant based in Chelm, eastern Poland, which belongs to Cemex Polska. Net value of the contract, which among other things will involve the production and provision of steel constructions, reaches €2.58 million.

The Slantsy cement plant at Cesla, 170km south-west of St Petersburg, Russia, and controlled by HeidelbergCement Group, has signed an agreement with GCE Group on an energy audit of the facility. By February 2012, the company is to complete the energy audit and develop a programme to improve energy efficiency of the plant through to 2017.

Chinese construction equipment company Sany is buying Putzmeister, theGerman manufacturer of concrete pumps, in a deal said to be worth €360-500million. Although the terms of the deal have not been revealed officially, the acquisition is a landmark deal for Sany which will give it access to premium quality concrete pumping technology.

Holcim has been allowed to completely replace conventional fuels with waste when making cement at its production plant in Sehnde-Höver near Hanover, in Germany. The permission granted by the local inspectorate replaces an agreement in 2006 to allow the plant to use 70% substitute fuels. Holcim mainly burns plastic waste at its Sehnde-Höver plant, which produces about 1million tonnes of cement per year.

The upgrading of Lunsin Mining Company’s Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk cement plant is under way. The Russian plant, launched in 2011, produced 7,000 tons of cement in its first year. Production is set to resume in March 2012. Following its upgrade, output is forecast to rise dramatically to10,000 to 12,000tonnes per month.