Shree Cement has placed a massive order with Gebr. Pfeiffer SE for five vertical roller mills to grind cement, raw materials and petcoke/coal. The cement company is expanding its capacity across India by adding a greenfield plant in Chhattisgarh and a cement grinding unit in Bihar to better serve the east Indian market. The order encompasses three MVR 6000 C-6 cement mills each with an installed drive power of 6700 kw, an MVR 6000 R-6 raw mill, also with 6,700 kw drive power, and an MPS 3070 BK suitable for grinding petcoke and/or coal.
The mill’s feature Gebr Pfeiffer’s active redundancy concept, meaning the mill can be operated even when one or two of its rollers are removed . Shree Cement is using alternative raw materials such as flyash to reduce the CO2 emissions connected with cement production.