Items filtered by date: Wednesday, 06 November 2019
Sweden: Construction and engineering conglomerate Peab’s subsidiary Swecem has engaged German-based Gebr. Pfeiffer for the supply of one MVR 2500 C-4 grinding mill at its granulated blast furnace slag (GBFS) grinding plant in Oxelösund in Södermanland. The mill has four grinding rollers and a table diameter of 2.5m, giving it a 25t/hr slag grinding capacity.
Swecem operates a concrete plant in Kungsängen. It currently uses ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) supplied by Irish-based Ecocem’s 0.7Mt/yr Dunkirk grinding plant in France.
NMLK’s Lipetsk steel plant launches sixth blast furnace 06 November 2019
Russia: NMLK’s slag output is set to increase after the installation of a sixth furnace at its flagship plant in Lipetsk Oblast at a cost of US$0.55bn, increasing its pig iron production capacity by 8% to 3.4Mt/yr.
NMLK supplies Eurocement with 5Mt/yr of raw materials as primary feedstock and additives, and has in turn received the latter’s cement for its own construction projects.