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Çimko Kahramannmaras Cement Plant Automation: Integrated Solutions for the entire Equipment

Currently, Turkey’s cement sector ranks as the third largest in Europe with a production capacity of 42 million tons of clinker and 52.5 million tons of cement. A good deal of that output is being used in Turkey for the construction of new buildings, highways, and tunnels, primarily with the goal of achieving European standards in the pursuit of integration into Europe. But a substantial part is also exported.
Among the cement companies profiting from this steady demand is Çimko, which up to 2006 had a 2.5 percent share of the Turkish cement market with its Adıyaman and Narlı cement plants, packaging facilities in Gaziantep and Kilis, and seven ready-mix concrete plants in different locations. To increase its share of the Turkish cement market a main goal of Çimko was to build the most efficient and most advanced cement works of its kind. The location of the new Çimko plant was found in the Kahramanmaraş province in south-eastern Turkey. Çimko’s owners, Sanko Group and Cementerie Aldo Barbetti, selected this site to be close to export markets in Asia.
For their new plant Çimko wanted to have a solution that integrates power generation and distribution, drive technology, process control and instrumentation, data management, plant infrastructure and maintenance into one system to gain access to a number of additional possibilities for optimizing plant operation and to ensure high efficiency, reliability and security of investment.
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