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India: Sagar Cement has ordered a vertical roller mill from Gebr. Pfeiffer for grinding granulated blast-furnace slag and granulated blast-furnace slag cements. The mill will be used at a new 160t/hr slag grinding plant at the cement producer’s Bayyavaram Village unit near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. Delivery is scheduled to take place before the end of 2017. No price for the order has been disclosed.

The order is for a MVR 5000 C-4 mill equipped with a 4300kW-drive and four grinding rollers with active redundancy. The plant will grind granulated blast-furnace slag with a fineness of about 4,500 cm²/g acc. Blaine and it will also be able to grind composite cements from varying portions of granulated blast-furnace slag, fly ash and gypsum.

Core components of the mills, including the roller, tension system, grinding bowl and planetary gearbox, will be supplied from Europe. The mill foundation parts, the housing and the integrated high-efficiency classifier of the type SLS 4750 BC will be provided by Gebr. Pfeiffer India. The local subsidiary will also supply most of the equipment required to complete the grinding plant, including the plant fan and hot gas generator.

India: Sri Balaha Chemicals has ordered a LM 35.2+2 CS vertical roller mill from Loesche to grind slag at its Hindupur grinding plant in Andhra Pradesh. The mill is designed for grinding granulated blast furnace slag, it will have a production capacity of 50t/hr and the material will be ground to a fineness of 4000cm²/g Blaine. The contract also includes supply of a mill fan, dampers, expansion joints, a magnetic separator and a metal detector. The lead-time for the main components of the mill is 10 months.

Loesche India, Loesche’s subsidiary based in Dehli, will be handling the order. A similar mill has been operating at a cement plant in Bhavanipuram since 2001. Loesche India has sold over 100 vertical roller mills for the grinding of raw material, coal, and cement to various clients in India. World firsts for Loesche India include the LM 69.6 a six roller mill for raw material grinding, the LM 56.3+3 CS and the LM 63.3+3 CS.