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BERALMAR AT THE CERAMBRICKTECH 2018 FAIR

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NEW PROJECT FOR A COMPLETE PLANT IN KAZAKHSTAN

We wish to inform our customers, suppliers and friends that the BERALMAR facilities will remain closed between 23 December and 1 January inclusive, due to the Christmas and New Year holidays.

On 2 January the entire company will be fully operational once more.

BERALMAR will once again take part in the CERAMATECH fair in Moscow, which from this year on is changing its name a little to be called CERAMBRICKTECH and which in recent years has become the leading fair for the ceramics industry in Russia.

The fair will be held at the Expocentre Fairgrounds in the Russian capital from 23 to 26 January, and visitors will be able to find BERALMAR at stand No. C13 in pavilion 7.

We look forward to seeing you in Moscow!

Location of the BERALMAR stand in pavilion 7.

BERALMAR is working to supply a new production line for the BOSHAN ceramics plant situated a few kilometres from Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.

BOSHAN’s order includes a LLEVANT model direct-load dryer on a kiln car and a PRESTHERMIC model airtight tunnel kiln. The three tunnels (two for drying and one for firing) are designed with the following dimensions: 106 m in length, a useful width of 4.70 m and a useful height of only 1.54 m, which is a moderate height as fits direct-load kiln-car facilities. Nominal production is 30 million NF/year of various solid, hollow and thermoclay formats.

Location of the new ceramics plant in Kazakhstan.

BERALMAR multiple cutter and beveller.

Production lines with dryers directly loading green material onto kiln cars are not always a technically viable option as they depend on the suitability of the clay available and the formats to be manufactured, but when they are viable, as in this case, they have numerous advantages, especially the following:

• Low energy consumption: the combined energy consumption anticipated between the drying and firing is 330 kcal/kg.
• Low presence of automation systems, and the other advantages that this entails: lower investment in machinery, less maintenance and fewer production stoppages.

The only fuel available for the project is coal with a low calorific value (> 4,500 kcal/kg), which represents a technical challenge. For this reason, the supply of a PROMATIC firing facility in the kiln and a GB/1500 model heat exchanger has been planned. On the other hand, this fuel is moderately priced at present and this, combined with the low energy consumption of the planned line, will lead to energy bills that will undoubtedly be one of the keys to the competitiveness of this new ceramics plant.

Also noteworthy in this project is the multiple cutter with four-sided bevelling. The versatility of the dryers with direct kiln-car stacking enables the new factory to be a multi-product factory, and some formats will be bevelled.

BERALMAR happens to have accumulated very positive experience in supplying both direct kiln-car stacking lines and solid-fuel consumption equipment for drying and firing processes and these are surely reasons involved in BERALMAR being chosen for this project.

This is the second order BERALMAR has received from the central Asian country, following the order for a PROMATIC facility, which we referred to through this medium recently..