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FLSmidth Airtech opens Turkey office
17 November 2015Turkey: 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.
FLSmidth appoints representative in Iran
08 October 2015Iran/Denmark: Denmark's FLSmidth has selected Iranian Ehdas San'at Company as its representative for the implementation of projects and services in Iran.
Managing Director of Ehdas San'at Morteza Hashempour and the Director of FLSmidth, Thomas Schulz, have signed a scientific, technical and economic cooperation memorandum of understanding to cooperate in the cement industry in Tehran. Ehdas San'at has agreed to a close cooperation with FLSmidth in the field of producing related equipment and constructing new projects, as well as the optimisation and reconstruction of existing cement plant.
Following the recent agreement between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) group of powers in Vienna on 14 June 2015, Iran has been inundated with offers from foreign companies. Top Iranian officials have repeatedly said that they accept offers only from foreign applicants that make investments in Iran and share technological know-how with the country.
Earlier in September 2015, Iranian Deputy Energy Minister Alireza Daemi said that companies from several European and Arab countries have declared deep interest in broadening ties with Iran in the water and power industries. "Companies from Austria, Germany, France, Italy, as well as some Arab countries, have voiced readiness to finance projects in various sectors in Iran," said Daemi. "We seek to increase productivity and efficiency in the domestic power sector by exchanging technological experience and knowledge with foreigners."
FLSmidth enters service contract with Norwegian plant
01 October 2015Norway: FLSmidth has agreed with HeidelbergCement on a one year service agreement contract to support its Norcem cement plant in Kjøpsvik, Norway. The plant is the most northerly in the world. An FLSmidth team will monitor the plant and diagnose and advise the Kjøpsvik-based operators in real-time. This will enable improvement in performance, increased availability and reduced operating costs.
"Optimising equipment performance is difficult without access to a wide range of specialists," said Skage Hem, FLSmidth's vice president for Global Research and Development. "It is not easy for customers with plants in remote corners of the world to recruit specialists. We have an experienced global specialist team ready to support the customers at all
hours of the day anywhere in the world."
Service is increasingly important for FLSmidth and is a growing business. In the last quarter alone service business across FLSmidth grew by 24% compared with the same quarter of 2014. Although global growth has slowed down, the equipment of many of its existing customers still needs to be maintained and optimised in order to increase plant productivity. With more than 90% of the lifecycle cost of cement plants being operating expenditure cost, service agreements are an area of continued growth potential for FLSmidth.
Read Global Cement's visit report from the Kjøpsvik plant here.
Marius Jacques Kloppers and Rob Smith to join board of FLSmidth
23 September 2015Denmark: Marius Jacques Kloppers and Rob Smith have accepted to be nominated as new members of the Board of Directors of FLSmidth. They will be nominated at the company's next Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 5 April 2016.
Marius Jacques Kloppers, aged 53 and a joint Australian-South African citizen, is the former CEO of the mining company, BHP Billiton. Rob Smith, aged 50 and a German-American citizen, is Senior Vice President and General Manager, EAME of AGCO.
Current member of the Board of Directors, Martin Ivert, has decided not to stand for re-election at the next AGM.
Cable maker CMI acquires FLSmidth’s Haryana plant
17 September 2015India/Denmark: Specialty cable manufacturer CMI Ltd has acquired one of Denmark-based FLSmidth's manufacturing plants in Bawal, Haryana to cater to the growing demand of its products.
CMI plans to invest US$3.02m on the acquisition, which is expected to significantly augment the company's production capacity. The company intends to start production in the new facility within the current financial year. The facility possesses all the necessary clearances and equipment required for industrial production. CMI's net profit rose by 168% to US$429,133 in the quarter that ended on 30 June 2015 and its revenues were US$20.7m.
CMI, which was formerly known as Choudhari Metal Industries, was incorporated in 1967. The company was initially engaged in copper metal trade and copper melting and rod casting and later diversified to the cables business. It currently makes different types of cables to meet the demand of core infrastructure sectors in India like telecommunication, railways, shipbuilding and petrochemicals.
DG Khan releases further details of new Baluchistan cement plant
09 September 2015Pakistan: DG Khan Cement has signed a contract with Germany's Loesche GmbH to supply complete raw, cement and coal grinding mills for its greenfield cement plant in Lasbella, Baluchistan. The cement grinding mills will be provided by a German company, while Denmark's FLSmidth has been contracted for engineering and equipment, according to DG Khan Secretary Khalid Chohan. The new 9,000t/day plant will be completed with a cost of around US$300m within three years. DG Khan has already signed an agreement with K-Electric for the supply of 40MW of electricity.
US: FLSmidth has secured an order for the engineering, supply and installation of a new CataMax catalytic solution for a US cement producer. The order includes a new filter installation with catalytic elements, ID fan, flue gas ducts and dust transport equipment.
The CataMax catalytic solution uses ceramic elements with an embedded catalyst. The porous elements not only remove dust particles from the flue gases, but the catalyst embedded also removes total hydrocarbons (THCs) and organic hazardous air pollutants (O-HAPs) in the flue gas. The CataMax catalytic solution is a patent-pending technology from FLSmidth that will help US cement producers to achieve compliance with stricter environmental regulations.
"We are already seeing an increased interest in this technology from other customers in the US as well as from customers in Europe and Asia, where similar legislative restrictions are also expected in the future," said Jacob Sondergaard, vice president of FLSmidth Airtech, part of FLSmidth's product companies division.
Nigeria: BUA Group's US$600m, 3Mt/yr capacity Obu cement plant in Okpella, Edo is set to be start cement dispatches in the first week of August 2015. Clinker production has already commenced.
"The Obu Cement plant, which is about 5km away from Edo Cement Company, is 100% owned by BUA Group. The Edo Cement plant, which has a capacity of 500,000t/yr is also being upgraded and will receive clinker from the Obu Cement plant before being fully completed," said BUA Group chairman and CEO Abdulsamad Rabiu. "The two plants will produce about 3.5Mt/yr of cement. Asides from the initial cost of over US$500m in Obu Cement, we have also invested over US$100m in gas turbines to power a 50MW plant for 24-hour electricity generation, as well as the construction of a 30km gas supply pipeline." The Obu Cement plant was supplied by FLSmidth of Denmark, while the civil construction was handled by construction firm Julius Berger.
Rabiu said that the company's three-year journey to construct the plant would give a much-needed boost to Nigeria's cement industry, as well as enhance the development of related sectors including housing and construction. Rabiu said that the plant's location in Edo makes it a strategic point for markets in the north and south of the country. "Essentially we are 200m to the highway linking Okene, Kogi and Benin, Edo, which will guarantee adequate distribution of products," said Rabiu. Rabiu revealed that an estimated 250 – 300 trailers of cement would be delivered to markets across the regions each day once the Obu plant starts full commercial operations.
The Obu Cement plant currently uses 9000t/day of limestone and clay for its large-scale operations, which will provide over 1500 direct jobs. The plant will produce 32.5, 42.5 and 52.5 grade cement.
"As far back as April 2014, BUA Group signed a gas sales and purchase agreement with the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC), which will guarantee the supply of about 0.9Mft3/day of gas to the Obu plant. However, liquid fuels will also be used as a backup, to ensure production around the clock," said Rabiu.
FLSmidth to supply cement plant to DG Khan Cement
13 July 2015Pakistan: FLSmidth has signed a Euro57m contract with DG Khan Cement to supply engineering and equipment for a 8500t/day greenfield cement plant in Pakistan.
"Pakistan is a very important market for FLSmidth and we are extremely pleased that DG Khan has again chosen FLSmidth as its supplier. This underlines its valuable long-term ties with DG Khan Cement, as well as our strong foothold in Pakistan, where we expect to see more activity following new government development programmes," said president of the cement division, Per Mejnert Kristensen.
The first contract between DG Khan and FLSmidth dates back to 1992. Since then the partnership has resulted in three additional orders to FLSmidth in 1998, 2005 and 2007. The new order will be booked by the cement division and will contribute beneficially to FLSmidth's earnings until 2017.
Vietnam: FLSmidth has received a US$109m order from the Vietnamese cement producer Xuan Than Group for the supply of a complete 12,000t/day capacity cement plant. The plant will be located approximately 100km south of Hanoi. Once completed, the plant will be the largest cement plant in Southeast Asia with the most energy-efficient equipment, state-of-the-art emissions control systems.
"The Vietnamese cement market is expected to grow over the coming years and it is a well-known market to FLSmidth as we have been present in the country for many years. The construction of the largest cement plant in Southeast Asia proves our strong position in the area," said president of the cement division, Per Mejnert Kristensen. The order will be booked by the cement division and contribute beneficially to FLSmidth's earnings until mid 2017.