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Indian cement workers kidnapped in Nigeria
01 July 2016Nigeria: Two Indian cement workers for Dangote Cement have been reportedly kidnapped in Gboko, Benue State. Civil engineer Sai Srinivas and his colleague Anish Sharma were abducted while travelling in a convoy of cars to the local Dangote cement plant on 29 June 2016, according to The Hindu newspaper. Srinivas has worked for Dangote Cement for three years. Previously he worked for Aditya Birla group in Raipur, India.
Saudi Arabia: Wärtsilä has signed a contract to supply a 161MW Flexicycle (combined cycle) power plant to Yamama Cement. Wärtsilä will deliver a full engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) project. In addition to the EPC contract, a five-year operation and maintenance management agreement and a 10-year spare parts supply agreement have also been signed. The value of the order is approximately Euro115m.
The power plant includes 10 18-cylinder Wärtsilä 50 dual-fuel engines and a steam turbine. The contract was included in Wärtsilä's order book in the first quarter of 2016. The contract announcement was delayed until June 2016 due to the finalisation of technical-commercial details and the operation and maintenance management agreement. The power plant will be delivered in four phases. The first part is estimated to be delivered by the end of 2017 and the complete plant is scheduled to be handed over during the second quarter of 2019. The delivery is aligned with the construction schedule of a new Yamama cement plant.
This is a dual-fuel power plant operating primarily on natural gas with light fuel oil and crude oil as back up fuels. This will be Wärtsilä's first gas fired Flexicycle power plant in Saudi Arabia. The plant will provide power to run the Yamama facility, which has a production capacity of 20,000t/day of cement. Due to the plants' remote locations, most of the cement industry in Saudi Arabia is powered by captive power plants such as this one.
"Wärtsilä has a reputable track record in Saudi Arabia and they have offered an efficient and reliable solution for a harsh operating environment. We consider this relationship a strategic partnership and hopefully it will be rewarding for both parties," said Jehad Abdul Aziz Al Rasheed, General Manager, Yamama Cement Company.
Brazil: The Sempertrans division of the Semperit Group and the Agudio brand of Leitner have started operation of their ‘flyingbelt’ conveying system, a combination of ropeway and conveyor belt, at the LafargeHolcim cement plant in Barroso, Minas Gerais. The conveying belt is suspended on ropes connecting a limestone quarry to the plant. It can convey 1500t/hr of limestone at a height of up to 36m. The 7km belt is the longest of its kind in the world.
"With the Agudio ‘flyingbelt’ we have installed a very innovative bulk materials transportation system. The Sempertrans conveyor belt not only overcomes - at great height - terrain that can only be accessed with difficulty, it also transports material efficiently and in an environmentally-friendly way. More than 40 truck journeys are saved every hour," said Thomas Fahnemann, CEO of Semperit Group.
The order was produced in the Sempertrans plant in France and shipped to Brazil. The electricity consumption of the new conveyor equipment is only around one third of that of conventional ropeway systems and, instead of the previous maximum of 400t/hr, 1500t/hr of limestone can now be transported.
Starlinger supplies production equipment for Ad Star sacks to Russian packaging producer KZSU
01 July 2016Russia: Kazanskiy Zavod Sovremennoy Upakovki (KZSU) officially inaugurated its new production plant in Kazan for Ad Star block bottom sacks in late May 2016. Austrian bagging machine manufacturer Starlinger supplied the equipment for the plant. KZSU will produce Ad Star block bottom sacks for use in the cement, gypsum, chemical, fertilizer, animal feed and other dry bulk goods sectors. Tatar President Rustam Minnikhanov attended the opening of the plant.
The plant will produce 44 million sacks per year for local and foreign markets. The investment includes extrusion, weaving, coating and printing lines, as well as two Ad StarKON sack conversion lines and a Recostar universal recycling line for treating the production waste from Starlinger. The sacks will be supplied to Russian and foreign companies including JSC Chemical Plant Karpov, Asia Cement, Poliplast, Knauf Gypsum, Servolux (Belarus) and the LLC Cement Plant Samadov in Tajikistan.
Starlinger has installed 10 Ad Star production plants in other former Soviet states. This is the first complete Ad Star production plant that has been set up in Russia.