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Poland: Cementownia Warta and Cementownia Odra have joined the Pewny Cement certification scheme run by the Polish Cement Association. The kite mark is intended to convey high specification standards in production, packaging and distribution for customers outside of the construction industry. Warta and Odra join LafargeHolcim, Górażdże Cement, Cement Ożarów and Cemex on the scheme.
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.
Poland: The Polish Cement Association (Stowarzyszenie Producentów Cementu) forecasts that local cement sales will rise by 2.5% to 16.1Mt in 2017 and to 17Mt in 2018 due to growing investment in residential housing and infrastructure. The association also warned that the future of the European Union's Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) could have major implications for the local industry. It supported the European Parliament’s amendments to the scheme in March 2017 and reinforced the high level of thermal substitution rates used in the local industry.
Poland: Beumer Group has received an order from Mostostal Kraków to provide four belt bucket elevators for the LafargeHolcim cement plant at Kujawy. These systems are part of a project to improve the production and the quality of cement blends.
Mostostal Kraków, a steelworks company is the general contactor on the project and it will provide LafargeHolcim with cement silos as well as the corresponding conveying technology. Beumer's belt bucket elevators, with centre distances of up to 50m, will enable a conveying capacity of 350t/hr, which is ensured by the special belt design of the steel wire belts. The systems will go into operation at the end of 2017.
LafargeHolcim establishes new European Works Council
28 March 2017Switzerland: LafargeHolcim and employee representatives in Europe have established a new European Works Council (EWC). The forum for consultation and dialogue at a transnational level will bring together worker representatives from 19 countries with senior leaders from LafargeHolcim.
“People are essential to the success of LafargeHolcim and our commitment to social dialogue through the new European Works Council is testament to this. During a period of transformation, we recognise that ensuring the full commitment, mobilisation, and engagement of our employees is a key building block for success,” said Eric Olsen, chief executive officer of LafargeHolcim.
The EWC was established based on an agreement signed by Olsen and Executive Committee members Caroline Luscombe, responsible for Organisation and Human Resources and Roland Köhler, responsible for Europe, Australia / New Zealand and Trading as well as Sam Hägglund, General Secretary of the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers EFBWW, among other management and employee representatives. Chaired by Köhler, the EWC replaces the previous European Works Councils. Countries represented in the EWC include Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.
LafargeHolcim Kujawy cement plant in Poland to have chlorine bypass system upgraded by A Tec
17 February 2017Poland: LafargeHolcim has awarded a contract to A Tec to upgrade the chlorine bypass system at its Kujawy cement plant. A Tec will upgrade its existing Reduchlor bypass system to increase the rate to 10% from 5%. The upgrade will retain the system’s existing bypass filter and filter fan. The project will be commissioned in spring of 2017.
A Tec’s Reduchlor bypass system consists of a take-off chamber above the kiln inlet, specifically designed for each installation, and a specially designed quenching chamber, to which the chlorine condenses on and adheres to fine dust particles. After this condensation process the chlorine-enriched material is collected in a filter.
Polish cement producers to meet sales forecast in 2016
04 January 2017Poland: The Polish cement industry is expected to meet a sales forecast of 15.8Mt made by the Polish Association of Cement Producers (SPC). Jan Deja confirmed the prediction based on data for November and December 2016 from the Central Statistical Office (GUS) and the weather at this time in comments made to the Polish News Bulletin. He added that 2016 had seen a 'significant' drop in investments and that a boom in residential construction had compensated for a decline in infrastructure development. However, tenders for infrastructure projects have been launched suggesting that sales might reach up to 16.5Mt in 2017.
Royal Cement gains logistics base in Poland
02 September 2016Poland/Egypt: Royal Cement EU, the European arm of the Egyptian white cement producer Royal El Minya Cement, is planning to expand in the Gdansk-Kowale IV logistics centre in Poland, belonging to 7R Logistic. Querco Property acted as Royal Cement's advisor in finding and negotiating the deal.
Gorazdze to raise thermal substitution rate to up to 80%
11 February 2016Poland: Gorazdze Cement intends to cut costs partly by increasing its usage of alternative fuels, according to its CEO Ernest Jelito. As the Polish cement producer is currently operating at a 60 – 70% capacity utilisation rate it has no plans to increase its capacity. Gorazdze Cement has a thermal substitution rate of around 50% at present and it intends to raise this to 70 – 80%.
WTW & MHC Group celebrate multiple milestone anniversaries
11 December 2015Germany/Poland: MHC Engineering Fördertechnik GmbH in Cologne, Germany celebrated the 10th company anniversary in November 2015. Its sister company WTW Engineering MiUP Sp.z o.o in Wroclaw, Poland has also celebrated its 20th company anniversary recently.
MHC Egineering Fördertechnik GmbH was founded in 2005 and immediately made an impact by acquiring WTW Engineering MiUP Sp. Z.o.o. located in Poland, as well as WTW Americas Inc. located in Canada.
The three companies together form the WTW & MHC Group, a prominent supplier of: silo and bunker discharge technology for all bulk materials, discharge capacities and silo diameters; complete turnkey systems or individual components for the reception, storage, discharge and transport of alternative fuels; materials handling in general; laboratory testing of bulk materials.
"We are not so much interested in short-term and quick profits but in long-term trusting and cooperative relationships with our clients," said managing director Marek Lewicki. "Our success, even through the highs and lows of the material handling market due to fluctuations in the world economy, is confirmed every day by our loyal clients in the cement, power and metallurgical industries," Added managing director Aaron Reid.