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Robson export success continues with Nigerian contract worth £650,000

Bulk handling specialist Geo Robson has recently won a £650,000 contract to supply equipment to recycle kiln dust at the Lafarge plant near Lagos, Nigeria. The award closely follows a project for Lafarge, formerly Blue Circle Industries, in Egypt and a sugar handling installation in Saudi Arabia, together worth around £3.3m. Robson has supplied a number of Lafarge plants in the UK with bulk handling equipment for tasks as varied as feeding used tyres to cement kilns and raw meal handling.

The equipment intended for the Nigerian plant will take back end kiln dust formerly treated as waste and feed it back into the plant for cement production, increasing the facility’s efficiency and output. The kiln dust will be used to make clinker, then ground down to make cement.

The initial process will comprise a reception hopper drag scraper, infeed drag scraper and stockpile troughed belt conveyor to transport kiln dust to a stockpile storing up to 350 tonne. A scalping screen will be used to filter out material larger than 50mm for additional processing.

A twin system using two stockpile extraction drag scrapers and two further drag scrapers will extract material from the stockpile for processing. Twin weigh feeders supplied by surge hoppers will supply the manufacturing process with kiln dust at a pre-set, variable rate, in conjunction with twin outfeed drag scrapers.

Robson’s on-site team will commission the equipment, and provide full on-site training for Lafarge staff.

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