CH2M HILL wins contract to design world’s largest cement plant

Manufacturing News, Source : The Manufacturer US
Zone : Operations and maintenance
Published : 16 Jan 2007 17:40

DENVER, CO, January 16, 2007 - CH2M HILL, a global full-service engineering, construction, and operations firm has secured a contract from FL Smidth, Inc. (a leading supplier of cement process equipment and cement plant engineering) to provide facility and infrastructure design services for a greenfield cement manufacturing plant.

The plant will be owned and operated by Holcim (US) Inc., a subsidiary of Holcim Ltd of Switzerland.

Holcim’s new greenfield plant will be built on 3,900 acres along the Mississippi River in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and will feature the largest single clinker production line anywhere in the world with a capacity of 12,000 tons per day of clinker and 4 million metric tons of finished cement annually. CH2M Hill in a press release says it will "utilize the most advanced technology and equipment, making it one of the lowest emission cement plants in the world."

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