thyssenkrupp AG (Essen, Germany) has received another major order for the cement plant business of its Industrial Solutions business area (www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com). The value of the contract awarded by Société des Ciments de Sigus, part of Groupe Industriel des Ciments d’Algérie (GICA), is in the mid three-digit million euro range. The turnkey cement plant will have a production capacity of 6,000 ton/d of clinker and will be constructed in Sigus, in the Wilaya of Oum El Bouaghi, located south of Constantine, around 340 km east of Algiers. Start of operation is planned for early 2019. In 2013, thyssenkrupp already received an order for another 6,000-ton/d cement plant from GICA.
Stefan Gesing, acting CEO of the Industrial Solutions business area of thyssenkrupp says: “This large order again proves that long-term customer relationships pay off. Combining our technological competence with a strong presence in growth regions allows us to support the infrastructure development in many emerging markets. Our strength is to provide customers with reliable and tailor-made plant solutions, components and services from one single source.”
Fawzi Bechir, CEO of Société des Ciments de Sigus says: “We are looking forward complete the project with thyssenkrupp, considered to be one of the leading engineering, procurement and construction contractors in the cement business, providing reliable, highly energy-efficient technologies and equipment that meet the most stringent environmental requirements.”
In order to meet the growing demand for cement and in line with import substitution, GICA (Groupe Industriel des Ciments d’Algérie) has launched several projects to increase its cement production capacity from 12 million ton/yr to 20 million ton/yr by 2019.
From raw material preparation to cement packaging and loading facilities, thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions will provide all key equipment, construction and supervision services including commissioning for the new production line.
The main components include a 1,600 ton/h primary crusher, a 500 ton/h secondary crusher for additives, a 75,000-ton-capacity circular blending bed, two Quadropol QMR² roller mills with an output of 2 x 300 t/h, and a 30,000 ton homogenizing silo. The kiln system consists of a two-strand, five-stage Dopol ASC preheating tower, a three-pier rotary kiln and a PplyTrack clinker cooler. The plant is completed by two clinker silos with a total capacity of 60,000 tons, three 160 ton/h ball mills, four cement silos with a capacity of up to 80,000 tons and a packaging plant equipped with four 3,000 bag-per-hour packaging lines. Monitoring and quality control will be provided by the laboratory automation system Polab.