Phoenix Cement Company has recently placed an order with Fuller, a member of the F.L.Smidth-Fuller Engineering Group, for the expansion of its Clarkdale plant in Arizona. The total value of the contract covering equipment and services amounts to 47 million US dollars.
Fuller is to expand the capacity of the plant to reach one million short tons plus when the plant expansion has been completed in 22 months.
The order, which was included in the sales budget for 2000, will be booked as revenue on a prorated basis until 2001 following the deliveries of engineering services and equipment.
The contract, recently signed in Arizona by representatives of Fuller and the customer, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, comprises machinery and equipment, engineering, training, mechanical erection and commissioning services. The new production facility is designed for high production output combined with low energy consumption and the smallest possible impact on the environment.
Phoenix Cement Company is well known for being a pioneer in the US cement industry and has often been the first to apply the latest technology. This time Fuller is to supply the first vertical roller mill ever to be applied for cement grinding in the US. Phoenix Cement Company is currently operating three two-stage preheater kiln systems, two FLS systems commissioned in 1959 and a Fuller system commissioned in 1963.
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