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Canadian pension firms become minority owners of Fives

06 June 2018

Canada/France: Canadian pension companies La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP) completed their acquisition of a minority stake of France’s Fives in late May 2018. The equipment manufacturer will remain controlled by its management, with Ardian as another minority shareholder. The group said that the new investment would enable it to expand and to explore research and development programs that aim to improve energy efficiency and a lower environmental footprint.

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Fives FCB releases update on work on fifth line for Qatar National Cement

28 May 2018

Qatar: France’s Fives FCB has released more information about its project to build a fifth production line for Qatar National Cement at its Umm Bab plant. The new 5000t/day clinker line was ordered in April 2014 and Fives has been responsible for the supply of a complete production line from raw material preparation to cement despatch. The new line is expected to be commissioned in the first half of 2018.

The line uses natural gas for fuel. Raw material preparation includes a 1000t/hr double impact rotor crusher for limestone, clay or shale, a gamma ray analyser, two limestone storage silos of 30,000t and two shale and clay storage siloes of 10,000t. For raw meal grinding the line will use a 440t/hr FCB B-mill with a diameter of 5.6m, a length of 21.2m and a power of 6600kW. It also has a FCB TSV 7500 Classifier BF.

The 5000t/day kiln consists of a five-stage single string FCB Preheater with low pressure drop cyclones, a FCB Zero-NOx Precalciner with a diameter of 5.2m fitted with a Pillard PRECAFLAM burner, a three piers FCB rotary Kiln with a diameter of 4.8m and length of 76m, a Pillard NOVAFLAM burner for rotary kiln, a clinker grate cooler with an active area of 112m2, an electrostatic precipitator for cooler dedusting, a Pillard ROTAFLAM burner as auxiliary burner and a Pillard HeatGen Systems for hot gas generation. The kiln line also includes Fives TGT UP Filters for the kiln and alkali bypass. The line has a 40,000t clinker storage silo.

Cement grinding comprises two FCB B mills with a capacity of 115t/hr. These have a diameter of 4.6m, a length of 14m and a power of 4200kW respectively. Cement grinding also includes Two Fives SONAIR Filters, two FCB TSV Classifiers and two Fives SONAIR Filters. Cement storage consists of two 20,000t silos.

Finally, cement packing and dispatch includes four truck loading systems with a capacity of 250 - 300t/yr each and one big bag loading station with a capacity of 30t/hr.

The project follows collaboration between Fives and Qatar National Cement on lines two, three and four at Umm Bab.

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Eqiom to spend Euro8m on kiln upgrade

25 May 2018

France: Eqiom plans to spend Euro8m on an upgrade to its kiln at its Lumbres cement plant. The subsidiary of Ireland’s CRH is installing a new clinker cooler on Kiln 5 at the site, according to the Nord Éclair newspaper. In February 2018 Fives FCB said it had won the contract to replace the kiln at the plant. The upgrade is expected to start in December 2018.

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Fives wins kiln replacement order for Eqiom’s Lumbres cement plant

06 February 2018

France: Fives FCB has been awarded an engineering, equipment supply and supervision of works contract for the replacement of a kiln at the Lumbres cement plant. The work covers replacing the downstream shell of the 42.2m kiln, including the tyre. The project is part of the cement producer’s plan to adapt Kiln 5 at the site for the installation of a new clinker cooler.

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Canadian pension firms buy minority stakes in Fives

02 January 2018

Canada/France: Pension investment management companies La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) have each purchased a minority stake in France’s Fives. CDPQ and PSP Investments will each acquire a ‘significant’ minority stake in Fives, which will remain controlled by its management, to support its next development phase. Ardian, an investment house, will continue to be part of the new shareholding structure, as a minority co-investor. The completion of the transaction remains subject to approval by relevant regulatory authorities. No value for the deal has been disclosed.

“We are very enthusiastic to enter a new phase of our development with CDPQ and PSP Investments. Their long-term approach to investment, their deep valuable industrial insights and their strategic vision aligned with that of the management team make them ideal partners for the group, allowing Fives to take advantage, at a global scale, of the full potential of our diversified operations,” said Frédéric Sanchez, chief executive officer (CEO) of Fives Group.

Founded in 1812, engineering company Fives designs and supplies machines, process equipment and production lines for industries including cement, minerals, aluminium, steel, glass, automotive, aerospace, logistics, energy and sugar. The group is located in over 30 countries and it has nearly 8400 employees.

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Cruz Azul orders two mills from Fives

20 December 2017

Mexico: The Cooperativa La Cruz Azul has ordered two raw meal grinding mills from France’s Fives. The first grinding unit, with a capacity of 280t/hr of raw meal, will be dedicated to the new clinker line no. 10 project to be installed at the Cruz Azul Hidalgo plant. The second one, with a capacity of 300t/hr of raw meal, will be installed in the Oaxaca Lagunas plant, as part of the new clinker line no. 5 project. Each grinding plant will be fitted with one FCB Horomill 4000mm grinding mill and one FCB TSV Classifier 6500mm. The deal, including the engineering, supply, construction and commissioning of the mills, was agreed in November 2017.

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Fives becomes founding member of the Centre for Technologies, Minerals and Recycled Materials of the Future

12 September 2017

France: Fives Group has revealed its membership of the Centre for Technologies, Minerals and Recycled Materials of the Future, a new association that aims to develop industrial recycling of minerals for the construction and public works sectors. Fives’ Innovation Department and its subsidiary Fives FCB joined Team2 to found the associate in May 2017.

The centre plans to set up a base to coordinate and test by-product valorisation, as well as the use of raw materials recovered from recycling, at a former cement plant owned by EQIOM group in Dannes, Pas-de-Calais. Fives contribution to the research will include its technologies in crushing, grinding, classifying and pyro processing in the minerals industry.

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Fives to supply classifier to Ramco Cements plant project

03 July 2017

India: France’s Fives has receive an order from AMCL Machinery to supply a new FCB TSV Classifier 4500 THF. The classifier will be used by Ramco Cements at its R R Nagar Plant in Tamil Nadu. Previously the cement producer has installed FCB TSV classifiers at its grinding plants in Kolagat, Salem and Chengalpattu.

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Lhoist orders classifier from Fives for limestone grinding plant

23 June 2017

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.

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Fives wins dryer contract with Cementos del Norte

13 June 2017

Honduras: France’s Fives has won a contract to supply a FCB Flash dryer for Cementos del Norte’s Bijao plant. The dryer will be installed on an existing ball mill that was supplied and installed by Fives FCB in 2001 for a production capacity of 90t/hr of pozzolanic cement. Since then the pozzolana content and moisture rate have increased. Once operational the grinding plant drying capacity will rise.

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