NIRMA Ltd has chosen an MPS 180 B Pfeiffer vertical roller mill for its plant in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. The company produces quicklime, which will be ground in the mill at a rate of 35 tph and a fineness of 10% R 150 µm. The chosen mill competed successfully against the ring roll mills currently in operation at the plant. It will be equipped with a 200 kW gearbox.
MPS mills have been used for many years in plants in the chemical, gypsum and lime industries where limestone, quicklime or gypsum are ground.
Optimisation 2020 provides a unique online forum for cement industry professionals to hear first-hand from experts through a series of exclusive presentations from cement producers and industry experts.
World Cement Editor, David Bizley, sat down with Michael Tay, Advanced Analytics Product Manager at Rockwell Automation to discuss his recent article in World Cement.
Entitled ‘Smooth Sailing’, this article explains how machine learning can help save energy, reduce downtime and predict equipment failures, thus enabling the smooth running of cement plant operations.
The company has supported Tan Thang Cement to successfully complete the commissioning of ABB Ability™ digital solutions at a new cement plant in Nghe An province, Vietnam.
General contractor Chengdu Design & Research Institute of Building Materials Industry Co. Ltd has ordered an MPS 3070 BC mill from Gebr. Pfeiffer SE on behalf of Saudi Arabia-based Readymix.
