Turkey: Kahramanmaras Cimento Beton Sanayii Ve Madencilik Isletmeleri (KCS) has awarded KHD Humboldt Wedag the contract to supply equipment for its second cement production line with a capacity of 4500t/day clinker near the city of Kahramanmaras in southeastern Turkey. Commissioning of both the new kiln line and the clinker grinding system is planned for the end of 2012.

Signing with KHD Humboldt Wedag for delivering clinker production line I in May 2006 allowed KIPAS Holding to enter the cement industry via the subsidiary to meet the requirements for entering the Turkish cement industry as a producer. The scope of KHD´s delivery and services includes the engineering and delivery of mechanical and electrical equipment as well as advisory supervision of erection and commissioning (including training) for the new kiln line and for the clinker grinding system. Its capacity will increase from 100t/hr to 200t/hr at a fineness of 3600cm²/g.

For its second line, KCS has chosen to install a KHD combustion chamber, with which coarse secondary fuels and/or secondary fuels associated with difficult ignition and combustion can be used. The new technology should lower the quality requirements for the alternative fuels as well as preparation requirements. This will be the second KHD combustion chamber in Turkey, following the first installation in a cement plant near Ankara. The increase in clinker capacity with the new kiln line accompanied a decision by KCS to increase the output of the existing cement mill, a ball mill of Chinese design with a throughput capacity of 100t/hr CEM I 42.5.