The cement manufacturing process starts from the mining of raw materials, which are used in cement manufacturing, mainly limestone, clays as well as the natural combination of limestone and clay which is called marl.

The limestone material is excavated by drilling and blasting, and then loaded onto trucks to be transported and unloaded into our crusher or raw material depot.

The clays are excavated from open cast mines and loaded onto trucks which then transport the materials and unload them into the raw materials depot.

The raw mix is then fed into a circular type pre blending salon. Afterwards, the mix is extracted from the stockpile by reclaimers and conveyed to a raw mill bin for grinding called the raw mix bin.

The raw material is then ground by a vertical roller mill, VRM, made by Pfieffer Germany. The mill product with required chemical composition and a suitable particle size is then directed to the storage and homogenization silo.

Furthermore, a 5 stage suspension preheater from KHD Germany is utilized to preheat the kiln feed as well as a well designed pre-calciner with approximately 60% of total fuel as part of the preheater. Causing a calcination degree of material leaving preheater easily reaches more than 90%.

Here a Rotary modern kiln that includes two stations, tyer/roller, with a 52-meter length and 4.4-meter shell diameter gets begins the clinkerization phase.

The kiln feed partially calcined in the preheater is fed into a rotary kiln to complete calcination and do the clinkerizatiion process through which required clinker phases are formed in approximately 1450 degrees Celsius to form clinker components C3A, C4AF, C2S, and C3S. The main source of heat here is natural gas.

Hot clinker discharge from the kiln drops onto the grate cooler for cooling from approximately 1350-1450 C to approximately 120 C. In the cooler, the quantity of cooling air required for clinker cooling is extracted from the atmosphere by different cooling fans and fed into the cooler chambers and pressurized through the cooler plate and clinker bed.

The clinker is then stored in the clinker silos, ready for grinding, to produce cement.

The cooled clinker discharges from the cooler into the pan conveyor and it is transported to the clinker storage. The clinker is taken from the clinker storage to cement ball mill bins for cement grinding.

The clinker stored in silos is then transported to the cement grinding department which consists of two open circuit ball mills made by CEMTEC Austria.

In order to control setting time and behavior attributes of the final cement paste, approximately 5% of high quality gypsum is added to the clinker before grinding takes place, by this action, the workability of cement and concrete will be improved.

All standard requirements such as cement fineness are controlled in this department to achieve the of around 3000 cm2/gr for the final cement product.

From the grinding mills the cement is conveyed to silos where it awaits mode of transport, either by bulk to be transported in container trucks or to the packers to be bagged.

Cement extracted from silos is conveyed to the automatic electronic packers where it is then packed into 50 kg bags and dispatched into trucks.