Magnezit Group is to install a range of antipollution equipment as part of its 2011-2020 Strategic Programme of Environmental Safety for the Satka magnesia and refractory production facility in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
The total capital investment of the programme amounts to Russian roubles 5bn. ($175.4m.).
But a key component of the project is a switch from rotary to shaft and multiple hearth furnaces in Magnezit’s dead burned magnesia (DBM) production.
In a statement, Magnezit revealed a particular focus of the programme was “...realising the strategic task of transition to [magnesia] clinker technology. The innovative technology of periclase clinker production has proved in...