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Preheater-Precalciner Tower rises 300 ft. into the air.
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| Giant Cement Company has completed a two-year, $135,000,000 modernization project at its Harleyville, South Carolina facility. The new, state-of-the-art plant was officially commissioned on June 13, 2005. Following many years of planning and over 900,000 construction man-hours, the facility is now one of the most modern, technologically advanced cement plants in the United States.
The goal of the modernization project was to increase cement and clinker production by 25% and to reduce overall plant emissions, thus improving the quality of both Giant's products and of the environment. Four wet-process kilns have been replaced by a dry preheater-precalciner kiln with a production capacity of 3,500 tons per day. Giant also installed a 2,300-hp Vertical Raw Mill and a 6,000-hp Finish Mill. In order to build a foundation for the successful future of Giant and its employees, the company alsocommitted $1.5 million to an extensive training program to prepare employees for the job opportunities available in the operation of the new facility. |
| As part of the modernization project, over $2 million was invested in Giant Resource Recovery-Harleyville to enhance the processing and feed system for liquid and solid BTU-bearing wastes. These wastes are blended by GRR and burned for use as fuel by Giant Cement. A new, state-of-the-art chemistry laboratory was installed to test and monitor these fuels.
For more than 25 years, Giant Resource Recovery has served customers with the environmentally safe and beneficial use of their unwanted industrial wastes as fuel in the cement kilns at Giant Cement in Harleyville, South Carolina, and Keystone Cement in Bath, Pennsylvania and the Solite lightweight aggregate kilns in Arvonia, Virginia. GRR-Attalla in Attalla, Alabama, GRR-Sumter in Sumter, South Carolina, and GRR Aerosols in Arvonia, Virginia also offer a broad range of additional waste processing and recycling services. Throughout Giant's two-year expansion project, all of the GRR facilities provided continuous, uninterrupted service to their customers. The processing and burning of alternative fuels conserves our nation's precious non-renewable energy sources by annually replacing 240,000 tons of coal. The Giant-affiliated kilns recycle 21% of all alternative fuels utilized in cement and aggregate kilns nationwide. As the processor and supplier of these fuels, GRR has long been recognized as a proven leader in the industry. © Copyright 2007 Giant Cement Holding, Inc. |
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