OYAK Çimento gearing up in Cameroon

Leading Turkish cement producer OYAK Çimento AS, an existing Aumund customer, is developing a cement plant in Cameroon in West Africa. Aumund S.A.R.L. in Paris will supply nine machines for the project.

ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions (France) S.A.S, a customer of Aumund S.A.R.L., is responsible for the design, supply and installation of the new OYAK plant, which is situated near Kribi, 160 km from Douala, the largest city in Cameroon.

The plant will have a grinding station for calcinated clay with a capacity of 720 tpd and one for cement with a capacity of 100 tph. Aumund France will supply a package of three Aumund bucket elevators with central chain type BWZ, three Aumund belt bucket elevators type BWG and three Samson material feeders as the conveying solutions for each of these mills.

The machines will be supplied at the end of February 2021, and production is due to start at the plant in September 2022.