Aumund France supplies bucket elevators and material feeders for new cement plant in Cameroon
Oyak Çimento A.S. is one of the leading Turkish cement producers and has been a valued customer of the Aumund Group for many years. Oyak sees Africa as a growth market, and one of its investments is a cement plant in Cameroon, in West Africa. Aumund S.A.R.L. in Paris, as the responsible group entity for this region, will supply nine machines for the project.
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions (France) S.A.S., customer of Aumund S.A.R.L., is responsible for the design, supply and installation of the new Oyak plant, which is situated near Kribi, 160 km from Douala, the largest city in Cameroon. The plant will have a grinding station for calcinated clay with a capacity of 720 t/d and one for cement with a capacity of 100 t/h. Aumund France will supply a package of three Aumund Bucket Elevators with Central Chain type BWZ, three Aumund Belt Bucket Elevators type BWG and three Samson® Material Feeders as the conveying solutions for each of these mills.
The machines will be supplied at the end of February 2021, and production is due to start at the plant in September 2022.
