The value of the contract is in the higher three-digit million euro range. It is the largest cement contract ever secured by thyssenkrupp.

Jens Michael Wegmann, CEO of the IndustrialSolutions business area of thyssenkrupp: “Our partnership with Yamama is built  on a longstanding tradition and dates back many decades. We are delighted that Yamama is once again putting its faith in our comprehensive experience in the turnkey construction of complete cement plants worldwide. With our reliable, highly efficient technologies we are profiting from infrastructure expansion in many growth regions and at the same time contributing to the conservation of valuable resources.”

Yamama Saudi Cement and thyssenkrupp have been working together since the 1960s when the company placed an order for an initial 300 tpd rotary kiln. Six more, ever bigger cement production lines were added in the years that followed.

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions, the engineering and construction arm of the thyssenkrupp Group, is delivering Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) for the lump sum turnkey cement plant including the supply of all the components for the new lines, from raw material preparation to clinker manufacture to cement loading, including quality control. Both lines are scheduled to start operation in 2018.

The main components include two mobile primary crushers for limestone (each 1,800 t/h throughput), three crushers for additives (each 500 t/h), two crushers for correctives (each 100 t/h) as well as two circular blending beds for limestone, each with a capacity of 80,000 t and various additive storage facilities. Four QUADROPOL QMR2 roller mills with a throughput of 425 t/h and two 35,000 t capacity homogenizing silos will be used to grind and store the raw material.

The kiln lines comprise 6-stage and 2-string preheaters with PREPOL AS-MSC calciner, rotary kilns with POLFLAME-VN clinkering zone burners, and POLYTRACK clinker coolers. The clinker will be stored in three 10,000 t capacity clinker silos and two 100,000 t capacity clinker storage facilities. Four combi grinding units consisting of POLYCOM high-pressure grinding rolls, ball mills and SEPOL separators as well as downstream cement coolers will each produce 300 t of cement per hour.

The cement will be stored in six cement silos each with a capacity of up to 25,000 t. The line will also feature six cement packing and loading stations. Quality control and monitoring will be handled by a POLCID process control system and POLAB laboratory automation system.

These four ports, together with shipping company Viking Line, met in Turku in late October to start off an EU-funded joint project aiming to improve the maritime links between Sweden and Finland.

The joint project includes preparations andconstruction of waste water reception facilities and installations to enable  ro-ro and ro-pax ferries to connect to onshore power supply. It also includes planning for reception of scrubber sludge and LNG bunkering.

Viking Line, operating between Turku and
Stockholm, is aiming to develop a safe, efficient and environmental adopted
ro-ro passenger ferry concept to operate between Finland and Sweden.

The shipping industry is in a transition phase towards becoming more sustainable, due to stricter environmental legislation. The Baltic Sea is designated as a special area under Annex IV of MARPOL where stringent regulations for discharge of waste water will apply from 2019 for new passenger vessels and 2021 for existing passenger vessels.

“By investing in environmental services, our ports create the possibility for our customers to not only comply with existing environmental regulations, but also to go beyond legislations. These are important measures to create a sustainable maritime link between Finland and Sweden.” says Christian Ramberg, CEO, Port of Turku.

The project runs until the end of December 2016 and has been granted EU-funding from the Connecting Europe Facility programme up to a maximum of EUR 2,650,000.

Marsa Maroc is responding to the increasing capacity demand in Morocco with the introduction of the new terminal in Casablanca at the end of 2016. Kalmar will deploy the E-One2 RTGs with Kalmar SmartRail Container Position Indication (CPI), a real-time system to track and report container lifts and sets, and Kalmar SmartFleet, a remote monitoring and analysis tool. The cooperation includes Kalmar Care service and support for two years, as well as Bromma spare spreaders and spare parts.

“Marsa Maroc is one of our long-standing customers in Maghreb region”, said Eduardo Arus, Sales Manager at Kalmar West Africa and Maghreb. “We’re naturally very pleased that our solution and service capability met their criteria. We look forward to working with them in this project and wish them best of luck with their new operation.”

Marsa Maroc fleet includes Kalmar RTG’s, straddle carriers and terminal tractors. With the expansion, the current throughput of 600,000 TEU is expected to grow over 1 million TEU.

The new C-series spans the entire Konecranes product range of lift trucks (i.e. 10-65 ton fork lift trucks, container lift trucks and the full range of reach stackers). The range was first introduced to Europe and North America at CeMAT Hannover 2014, and since then has enjoyed enthusiastic uptake in excess of several 100 units. The generation C lift trucks are already hard and reliably at work in the European and North American fleets.

The Generation C lift trucks The C series lift truck includes a completely new driver’s cabin with first-in-class features to enhance safety, comfort and productivity. The C series also boasts increased reach stacker lifting performance, an enhanced TRUCONNECT® remote monitoring system and improved engine performance. The C series is equipped with common platform diesel engines that meet emission legislation levels EU Stage II / EPA Tier 2, EU Stage IIIA / EPA Tier 3, or EU Stage IV / EPA Tier 4f. These new engines are in general several decibels more silent and can save up to 6% in fuel consumption over previous ones. Most engines can be supplied with a start/stop function to further reduce fuel consumption, typically between 5 – 15%, and to extend the factual engine service life.

The new driver’s cabin offers operators class-leading spaciousness and superior visibility made possible by an even more ergonomic layout with integrated seat-mounted controls. The industry’s first 7″ touch screen color display provides full truck monitoring including eco-drive, fuel management and driver login. The touch screen monitor also supports an optional integrated rear-view camera and tire pressure monitoring. The efficient HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) system offers a 50% overall capacity improvement.

Patrik Lundbäck, Regional Sales & Service Director of the APAC Region, says “The Generation C lift truck is a collection of refinements and bold new technologies that improve our lift trucks in ways that make them safer, cleaner, quicker and more cost effective. We are very happy to be the first region outside of Europe and North America to launch the Generation C.”