Cohesive Clay and Limestone Raw Material Handling at Cemex Cemex - Clinchfield, Georgia The Need Cemex produces over 1 million metric tonnes of cement per year at their Clinchfield, Georgia (USA) plant. This capability is due in large part to a successful plant modernization and expansion that started with engineering in 1997 and finished with equipment commissioning in the spring of 1999. The “Clinchfield 2000 Project” resulted in a 50% increase in plant production capability at this former Southdown/Medusa-Citadel plant. Providing a continuous, uniform feed of sticky bulk solids like 20% moisture content limestone and 25% moisture clay was a major challenge and anticipated to create a process bottleneck. As an outcome of discussions between plant personnel and Penta Engineering, Jenik

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