Loesche to supply Egyptian Cement with three VRMs

Egyptian Cement contracted Loesche to provide three vertical roller mills for its Sohag plant, Loesche announced. Loesche will deliver a raw material mill with a capacity of 540 t/h of cement raw meal, a cement mill with an output of 350 t/h of clinker as well as a coal mill with an output of 45 t/h. “Chengdu Design & Research Institute (CDI) functions as the general contractor for the project and is owned by the Sinoma Group,” Cement News reports. Loesche had previously secured an agreement to provide the Defense Ministry’s six line cement plant being built in Beni Suef with 18 new vertical roller mills. Egypt’s exports of cement increased by 88% y-o-y in 9M2017 to USD 72 mn, Cement News notes.