The new grinding plant of Sephaku Cement near Delmas in Mpumalanga, South Africa, is almost complete and is ready to start production in early 2014. The 1.4Mta facility will be launched ahead of the company´s 1.2Mta integrated Aganang plant in Lichtenburg, North West.
The work has gone ahead with starting of the mill motor, ID fan and mill separator, Heinrich de Beer, engineering project manager at Sephaku Cement explains. ´Clinker is offloading is in full swing and in the stage of final setting optimisation," he states. Gypsum offloading has also been commissioned with the first gypsum off loaded mid November. In addition, the packing plant is about to be hot commissioned with cement while the palletizer and stretch hood machines have been cold and hot commissioned. Roads and intersections are on target to being finished before the end of this month.