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Jörgen Staflund appointed as plant manager of Cementa’s Skövde plant

02 December 2020

Sweden: HeidelbergCement’s subsidiary Cementa has appointed Jörgen Staflund as the plant manager of its integrated Skövde cement plant with effect from the start of 2021. He succeeds Matilda Hoffstedt, who has been in the post since 2010. She has been appointed to the role of Technical Support Manager within HeidelbergCement Group.

Staflund started his career working for Volvo in Skövde before becoming the maintenance manager for Cementa at the Skövde plant. He later worked as the Senior Technical Advisor Cement Operations Northern Europe before becoming the plant manager of Cementa’s Degerhamn plant in 2018 and 2019. He was recently been working on setting up a new concrete plant in Norway.

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Sandvik to restructure Sandvik Crushing and Screening as Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions

26 October 2020

 

Sweden: Sandvik says that it will launch Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions in on 1 January 2021. The new business area will consist of its current Crushing and Screening division, which is part of the Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology business area at present. It said the reason for the restructure was “to accelerate profitable growth.”

Chief executive officer (CEO) Stefan Widing says, “Sandvik is market leading within rock processing, and our Crushing and Screening division is a well-performing business with exciting growth opportunities, operating quite independently, with its own manufacturing, sourcing and aftermarket. By establishing Rock Processing Solutions as a business area we will improve transparency and strengthen our growth ambitions within the area."

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Cementa buys new biogas Volvo truck

03 September 2020

Sweden: Cementa says that it has added a second biogas-powered Volvo FH460 LGB truck to its logistics fleet. Based at the 0.6Mt/yr Skövde cement plant in Västergötland, the company says that the truck will supply customers in western Sweden with cement. Finland-based Gasum will fuel the trucks with biogas, which it says emits 90% less nitrous oxides (NOx) than diesel.

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Bruks Siwertell to supply three ship unloaders to Jurong Port

29 July 2020

Singapore: Jurong Port has ordered three Siwertell ship unloaders from Bruks Siwertell to handle cement imports. The port’s cement terminal already has three Siwertell ship unloaders that have been used for over 20 years. Two of these will be replaced as part of the upgrade project.

The three new ST 490-M screw-type rail-travelling unloaders will each discharge cement, fly ash and cement slag from vessels up to 50,000dwt at a continuous rated capacity of 800t/hr. Two of the new unloaders are scheduled for delivery in May 2022 and the third by the end of 2022. All will be fully assembled prior to delivery and transported by heavy-lift ship. Final commissioning and performance tests will be carried out in Jurong Port.

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Mespo establishes Swedish office

16 July 2020

Sweden: UK-based Vortex Global subsidiary Mespo has announced the establishment of a sales office in Sweden in order to “better serve the Nordic region.” While continuing to serve Danish customers from its Denmark branch, Mespo will use the new office to “create customer relationships, arrange site visits and follow up on customer enquiries” in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

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Cementa to supply climate-enhanced cement Swedish Transport Association supply contract

26 June 2020

Sweden: The Swedish Transport Association (ST) has arranged with Cementa for the supply of ‘climate-enhanced’ cement for the completion of an expansion of the Malmö – Lund Southern Main Line between Arlöv and Lund, including an underground section and three new stations. The company first concluded the contract with ST in 2017 and has since supplied normal Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) to the major infrastructure project. It has now agreed with the client to switch to ‘climate-enhanced’ OPC produced at its 2.5Mt/yr integrated Slite cement plant, which burns over 60% alternative fuels in its kiln lines, for production of the remaining 65,000m3 of concrete required for the project. Cementa southern district manager Jenny Larsson said, “This project is in line with Cementa’s climate-enhanced vision for infrastructure.”

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BHS-Sonthofen supplies batching mixer for Markbygden Wind Farm project

24 June 2020

Sweden: Germany-based BHS-Sonthofen has announced its supply of a twin-shaft DKXS 4.0 batch mixer for Tecwill as part of the 1100-turbine Markbygden Wind Farm in Norrbotten County. The mixer produces 4m3 of fibre concrete per batch and allows for casting up to three windmill bases per day. Tecwill has supplied a mobile concrete batching plant to the project consisting of five aggregate bins, four cement silos, a fibre dosing module and turbo-heating container including a buffer tank for cold water.

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Committee for European Construction Equipment and Swedish Association for Construction Equipment announce CECE Congress 2020 date

14 May 2020

Sweden: The Committee for European Construction Equipment (CECE) and the Swedish Association for Construction Equipment (SACE) have announced that the CECE Congress will take place on 8 October 2020 via livestream from Stockholm. CECE said, “In the world of digitalisation, acknowledging the unprecedented situation that the COVID-19 outbreak has imposed on Europe, we present to you a digital CECE Congress.” CECE said that the event would be of interest to anyone involved in the cement industry. Attendance is free of charge.

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Höganäs Borgestad opens new headquarters

27 April 2020

Sweden: Refractories specialist Höganäs Borgestad opened its new headquarters at Gävle, Gävleborg county on 27 April 2020. The facility will house the Energy and Kiln Engineering, Installation and Management departments.

During the coronavirus lockdown one project of note for Höganäs Borgestad has been refractory maintenance at Germany-based HeidelbergCement subsidiary Norcem’s 1.2Mt/yr Brevik cement plant in Telemark, Norway, for which it supplied 600t of refractories and 45 workers over a three week period.

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Geminor dispatches first rail-only RDF delivery

27 April 2020

Sweden: Norway-based Geminor received a batch of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) produced at its Braunsbedra plant in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany for use at Scandinavian cement plants on 23 April 2020. The shipment was Europe’s first international shipment of RDF by rail, without the use of trucks. Geminor plans for the 110t delivery to be the first of many on the 50,000t-capacity line. Geminor CEO Kjetil Vikingstad said, “Since transport by ship is only effective within a radius of 200km from a port, central Germany becomes a natural starting point for
transport by train. This is the beginning of extensive waste transport by train in
Europe.”

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