SÖNMEZ Cimento demonstrated their confidence in KHD´s advanced technology and their strategic partnership with AVIC, by placing an order with AVIC International for its new 5,000 tpd clinker production line. KHD and AVIC collaborate to offer select, competitive solutions for the cement industry by combining the strengths of KHD’s technology, with AVIC’s construction experience and competitive cost platform.
Humboldt Wedag, Germany, a member of KHD-Group, signed a contract with the Limak Bati Group, in Turkey, to supply engineering and equipment for a kiln line capacity increase from 1,820 tpd to 2,500 tpd of clinker, at their Trakya cement plant.
KHD is dedicated to helping create healthy environments, not only through our clean technology and engineering expertise in the cement industry, but also through our partnerships and work outside the workplace. Recently, the KHD Customer Service Center in India partnered with Swechha, a youth-run, youth-focused NGO operating out of Delhi, India.
As previously announced, KHD Humboldt Wedag International AG (KHD) will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Cologne on October 5th. On August 20th, the KHD supervisory board approved the AGM agenda, which was published today (convening notice incl. agenda). During the same meeting the supervisory board decided to re-activate the search for a CFO.
As already reported in the media, KHD partner AVIC has signed an agreement with Sonmez Holding for a new project in Adana, Turkey. KHD is the preferred partner for pyro-processing equipment, which , when ordered, will have a value in the single digit millions (EUR).
In December 2011, ZAB Zementanlagenbau GmbH Dessau, a subsidiary of KHD Humboldt Wedag GmbH, carried out a successful performance test of the rotary kiln plant that was recently constructed on a green field in Novotroizk/Russia, at the JUGPK Company.
At the 6th Global CemFuels Conference in Aachen, Germany, KHD’s Combustion Chamber won the award for ‘Most innovative technology for alternative fuels use’. The awards were given based on the results of an online survey that prompted hundreds of votes, cast by cement industry professionals from 22 countries around the world. Also awarded at the event was KHD customer Continental Cement, of Hannibal, Missouri, for ‘Outstanding Alternative Fuel Project’.
After successful completion of more than 16 pyroprocess optimization projects, Hongshi Group Co. Ltd., one of the biggest cement manufacturers in China, has awarded KHD (Humboldt Wedag India in collaboration with AVIC) with another pyroprocess upgradation contract for their Lanzhou plant in the Gansu Province.