AUMUND Fördertechnik is supplying a package including belt bucket elevators to feed the 96 m tall heat exchanger and the raw meal silo at the plant. Two BWZ chain bucket elevators will be used to convey raw meal and filter dust, and for silo feed. A KZB pan conveyor with a vertical lift of nine metres will be installed under the clinker cooler.
Seven AUMUND LOUISE-type drag chain conveyors with short centre distances of 13 m and conveying capacities between 7 and 50 t/h will extract filter dust. Two CENTREX® machines (25 to 250 t/h) will be extracting a mixture of limestone and clay as well as iron ore from silos up to seven metres high.The modernisation project at the Martres-Tolosane works is part of LafargeHolcim’s extensive EUR 300 million investment project in France. Comprehensive measures are being taken with a strong focus on environmental protection to make this plant, with its 110 employees, fit for the future.Once upgraded, the plant will be equipped to burn alternative fuels, and energy consumption and CO2 emissions will be greatly reduced. Work on the project will start in the final quarter of 2018 and be completed by mid-2020.
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