Sinoma International ordered LOESCHE’s complete grinding series for the cement plant of Nova Cimangola S.A. in Luanda, Angola. These will be the first LOESCHE vertical roller mills in Angola.
The order for Nova Cimangola S.A. includes one cement raw material mill of the type LM 48.4 with a capacity of 400 tons per hour and two cement mills of the type LM 46.2+2 C/S which are
designed to have a capacity of 150 t/h cement each. Furthermore LOESCHE’s coal mill of the type LM 24.20 DC completes the order of the famous and reliable LOESCHE vertical roller mills.
Further equipment like rotary star feeders, metal detectors, the engineering for the cyclones, classifier motors and the control system are also in LOESCHE’s scope of supply, as well as a two years operation spare parts contract.
More than 310 LOESCHE cement mills have already been sold throughout the world for the production of a wide spectrum of cement types. LOESCHE’s experience in grinding technology, with the added advantage of a Low Specific Energy Consumption, have convinced the customer, to decide in favour of purchasing the
vertical roller mill from LOESCHE Germany. The coal mill and the cement raw material mill are scheduled to start operation in mid-2016, the cement mills will follow with a production start by the end of year 2016.
About Loesche
Loesche is an owner-managed, export-oriented company, which was founded in Berlin in 1906. Today, the company operates from its head office in Düsseldorf and has subsidiaries, representatives and agencies around the world.
In 1928 that Loesche built the first spring-loaded air-flow mills, which even today are still known as Loesche mills. Nowadays, Loesche vertical mills form the core of many plants used to dry-grind coal, cement raw materials, granulated slag, industrial minerals and ores.
Thanks to its grinding plants with throughputs of 2 to 300 t/h for the cement industry and self-inert, central coal-grinding plants for hard and brown coal power stations, Loesche is the global market leader for vertical mills and turnkey grinding mills.
Loesche supplies turnkey plants, which are individually planned and built for the required process steps. This includes plants for processing, material storage, transportation and delivery, vertical mills, hot-gas generators, filter and separator systems, complete automation technology, plants for all aspects of construction above and below ground, steel construction and piping systems.
The company has EN ISO 9001 certification and the grinding plants themselves are compliant with national and international safety regulations.
At present, around 330 people are employed at the company’s head office in Düsseldorf, with around 600 employed worldwide.