New contract between Lafarge and Fives FCB

Lafarge recently awarded Fives FCB with a contract for the supply of a new cement grinding plant for its Teresa plant located in the Philippines. The contract includes:

raw material feeding for clinker and pulverized coal through connection to the existing circuit, for other additives (limestone, gypsum, fly ash) by dump truck

a cement grinding workshop fitted with Fives FCB equipment: a Horomill® 3800 and a TSV™ 4500 classifier, associated with a dryer-aerodecantor and a TGT™ filter

a Fives Pillard vertical hot gas generator  (12 MW) for drying the pozzolana (25 % moisture)

a cement silo of 5000 tons capacity

the cement transport system to the new silo and to the existing silos and packing plant

the control system and the electrical sub-station dedicated to this new grinding plant

the new grinding plant will enable Lafarge Republic Inc. to increase cement production at its Teresa facility to 850 000 t/a cement.