Cement, Energy & Environment

r According to a company official, the plant will Moisture inherent in the feed material will be be set up either at Mejia in Bankura district or in dried in the mill while the material is being ground Purulia district. by using waste gas from the cement rotary kiln. The location will be finalised "shortly". Courtesy: The Hindu Business Line, Kolkata, 08.08.2013 RELIANCE CEMENTS TO SET UP RS 600-CR GRINDING UNIT Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance Cements Co Pvt Ltd will set up a three-million-tonne a year grinding unit at an estimated cost of Rs 600 crore in the State. The unit is likely to come up at Raghunathpur in Purulia. Reliance Cements is a 100 per cent subsidiary of Reliance Infrastructure Ltd . Announcing the decision, West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee said the Government would hand over around 100 acres to the company. A land agreement to this effect has also been inked. "We have also waived– off the land-ceiling restrictions on the project," Chatterjee told reporters. Chatterjee had met Reliance Cements Vice-Chairman Sumit Banerjee. According to a State Government official, the cement unit is expected to be commissioned in another 30 months. It will create direct employment for 1,000 people. Courtesy: The Hindu Business Line, Kolkata, 08.08.2013 SHREE CEMENT PLACES MAJOR ORDER WITH GEBR PFEIFFER Kolkata-based Shree Cement has awarded Gebr Pfeiffer (Germany) and its subsidiary Gebr Pfeiffer (India) Pvt Ltd a contract for five vertical roller mills. The new order comprises three type MVR 6000 C-6 cement mills, each with an installed drive power of 6700kW, a MVR 6000 R-6 raw mill (also with an installed power drive of 6700kW) and an MPS 3070 BK suitable for grinding pet coke and/or coal. The Raipur works in Chhattisgarh will see an MVR 6000 R-6 for raw material grinding installed in addition to a cement mill. The mill, featuring a 6700kW drive, is designed to grind 500tph of raw material to a product fineness of two per cent residue on the 2121Jm screen, with the material being classified in the integrated high-efficiency SLS B classifier belonging to the latest generation. The plants planned for cement grinding (to be equipped with the MVR 6000 C-6), are to alternately produce 270-300tph of OPC ground to a product fineness of 31 00-3500cm 2 /g Blaine, or 270-300tph of PPC containing as much as 35 per cent of fly ash and ground to a product fineness of 3500-3800cm 2 /g Blaine, or 180tph of GGBS with a fineness of 4500cm 2 /g Blaine. The new contract brings the total number of Pfeiffer mills acquired by Shree Cement to 24, making it the German grinding specialists' largest single customer. Shree Cement is currently expanding its presence outside the Rajasthan market in the west, with the construction of a greenfield plant in the state of Chhattisgarh and a grinding plant in Bihar state to serve the east India market. Courtesy: Construction Technology, August 2013 ULTRATECH BUYS JAYPEE CEMENT'S GUJARAT UNIT FOR ~3,800 CR UltraTech Cement, an Aditya Birla Group Company, has acquired the 4.8 million tonne per annum (Mtpa) Gujarat unit of Jaypee Cement Corporation, for~ 3800 crore. As part of the deal, UltraTech will take over debt of~ 3650 crore. It will issue equity worth ~150 crore, with the fresh issue resulting in dilution of no more than 0.32 per cent of its capital. The deal is expected to be closed in eight-nine months. The Gujarat unit of Jaypee Cement has a 57- MW coal-based power plant with a 30-MW DG (diesel generator) back up, limestone reserves sufficient to run the plant at current capacity for 90 years and a captive jetty at Sewagram. The valuation of the plant works out to $124 a tonne with the rupee valued at 64 against the dollar. For Jaypee Associates, this may be only the first of the moves to prune the ~60,000-crore debt it carried on its books as of March this year. The acquisition will raise UltraTech's capacity to 59 million tonne. With new expansion plans in Karnataka, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh set to go on stream by 2015, UltraTech 's capacity is expected to touch 70 Mtpa. Courtesy: The Hindu Business Line, Mumbai, 12.09.2013 II