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FLSmidth Minerals of Copenhagen, Denmark, a leading supplier of equipment and services to global cement and minerals industries, has received orders worth $41 million (Danish krone 220 million) from Utkal Alumina International Ltd for a bauxite grinding and a mud washing plant at Doraguda in Orissa. The scope of the contract includes design, engineering, supply, installation and commissioning of the plant.
 The bauxite grinding package includes three 300 tonnes per hour rod mills, bauxite storage silos, handling equipment and pumps. The mud washing package includes nine settler/washer tanks in washing circuit along with flocculant dosing systems, holding tanks, pumps and valves, and piping.
In May 2008, FLSmidth had received contracts from Utkal Alumina for a gas suspension calciner and a coal handling system for the same plant. The company’s four international full-service engineering centres are located in Denmark, India, South Africa and USA.
Utkal Alumina, a part of the A.V. Birla Group, is setting up a 1-million tpa alumina refinery (with a provision to expand it up to 2 million tpa) along with a thermal captive power plant at Doraguda.
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