Engineering Progressing for Giant Cement Expansion in South Carolina

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Giant Cement Company Holding Incorporated (Summerville, South Carolina), a subsidiary of Cementos Portland SA (Pamplona, Spain) indicates that engineering is proceeding on schedule for expansion of its Harleyville, South Carolina cement plant. Construction of the $100 million expansion is scheduled to start in the Spring of 2003.

The company expects to be 95% complete with engineering and will release construction bid documents by February of 2003. The company is looking for major general contractors with grassroot cement plant construction experience.

Cement equipment expert, Polysius Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia), a subsidiary of Polysius AG (Beckum, Germany), was selected in early 2002 to provide a full dry process kiln line including raw mill and finished product grinding. The new line will have a capacity of just over one million tons a year of clinker production and will increase current production capacity by 30% when the project is completed in late 2004. It replaces a less efficient wet process system, which includes four smaller kilns and four raw mills.

Watkins Engineers & Constructors (Tallahassee, Florida), a subsidiary of employee owned Dillingham Construction Corporation (Pleasanton, California), and Consultec Limited (Toronto, Ontario) are providing the civil, structural, and mechanical engineering for the project.

Cementos Portland has interests in three cement plants in the U.S. and five in Spain. See related article Cementos Portland Expanding U.S. Cement Interests.