Loesche Grinding Mills for Ores and Minerals


LOESCHE has more than 100 years of experience in the comminution of cement, raw material, clinker, coal, slag and minerals and its vertical roller mills form the core of many plants used for the dry-grinding process of these materials.
Thanks to its grinding plants with throughputs of 2t/h to 1,000t/h for the cement industry and self-inert, central coal-grinding plants for hard and brown coal power stations, LOESCHE is the global market leader for vertical roller mills and turnkey grinding mills.
Mills for ores and minerals
Loesche grinding technology is a dry milling process which offers significant advantages over conventional crushing and grinding technologies in ore beneficiation. Advantages include:
- Low specific energy consumption
- Steep product particle size curve
- Reduced product overgrinding
- In-bed comminution
- Selective comminution
- Higher degree of liberation of the valuable minerals
- Combining of the crushing and grinding process stages
- Rapid response to changes in the feed composition
- Optimisation of throughput through online monitoring
- The grinding product has a positive effect on the downstream processes
- Compact design
Mine grinding technology
Loesche grinding technology is particularly suitable for users:
- Who aim to increase their recovery of respective ores and minerals by applying the Loesche grinding technology
- Who must reduce their operating costs
- Who are dependent on a limited or expensive energy supply
- Who operate or are planning ore processing in arid regions
- Who operate obsolete or inefficient grinding systems
- Whose processing plants no longer comply with the ecological requirements
- whose space requirement for the building of complete plants or modernisation of plant parts is
Products and Services

Dry Grinding Plants
Loesche mills are supplied today for a multitude of applications. They are adapted to the comminution requirements of the respective material involved.

Grinding Terminals Loesche CCG Plant
The extensively proven Loesche VRM is also the core of the new Compact Cement Grinding plant (CCG). Loesche's CCG provides its technological features in a most compact form, making them available in small but growing markets and remote areas with a demand for locally produced cement.

Spare Parts
Getting first-class spare parts to you on time is of strategic importance. That is why the supply of spare parts has top priority at LOESCHE. This applies not only to their procurement, but also to their transport and installation. Our Spare Parts team will be glad to assist you with mapping out a strategy for your specific requirements.

Technical Field Services
Our international team of installation supervisors ensures the installation of your LOESCHE mill in due time and according to the latest international quality standards.

Thermal Applications
At the beginning of the 1960s, Loesche built the first combustion chamber with no refractory lining. This signaled the start of a success story.
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A New Way to Small-Scale Cement Production
The Loesche CCG plant - globally recognised technology in its most compact form.

Loesche Technology – Always One Step Ahead
The company Loesche has more than 100 years of experience in the comminution of coal, cement raw material, clinker, slag and minerals. With consistently new developments, Loesche is always one step ahead.
Press Release
LOESCHE is delivering another two vertical roller mills to Guangdong Tapai Co Ltd for its two 10,000t/d cement clinker production lines in Jiaoling, China.
Read moreThis is already the fifth order from China for industrial mineral mills.
Read moreHurriclon systems included with the delivery for improved dust separation provide higher process efficiency.
Read moreLOESCHE GmbH was successfully re-certified from 4 to 6 May according to ISO 9001.
Read moreLafarge Africa, group member of the well-known global cement producer LafargeHolcim, is erecting a new coal grinding plant in its Nigerian factory, Ewekoro, and has once again chosen a LOESCHE mill.
Read moreKohat Cement is placing its trust in the proven concept of purchasing all mills from a single source with the perfectly matched set of four mills for equipping a complete cement production line.
Read moreNew, powerful vertical roller mills with pioneering drive technology are among the biggest of their type in the world.
Read moreSince 1995, Indian cement manufacturer Ramco Cement Limited has been successfully counting on well-proven LOESCHE mill technology.
Read moreOver 111 years, ‘LOESCHE’ has always been associated with a great innovative capability that has significantly contributed to the success of the company worldwide.
Read moreLOESCHE has broken the sound barrier by selling 400 vertical roller mills for cement and granulated blast furnace slag grinding.
Read moreEngineering company gains a competitive edge with advanced mill technology yet again.
Read moreLOESCHE is contributing to the new cement production line of the Dangote Cement plant in Obajana in Kogi State, Northern Nigeria with the delivery of two vertical roller mills (VRM)
Read moreLOESCHE can gain a foothold in the prospering Indian energy market with this major order.
Read moreEngineering company impressed with an intelligent concept for processing plant integration and sustainable, resource-saving technology.
Read moreGrinding of cement clinker in vertical roller mills is a technology introduced by LOESCHE, which was first used in 1935.
Read moreLOESCHE has won an order from Penna Cement Industries, India. The vertical roller mill is to be used at the cement plant in Boyareddypalli (in the state of Andhra Pradesh), around 200km north of Bangalore.
Read moreLOESCHE has been able to convince the cement division of the Chaudhary Group (CG Group) of the advantages of its vertical roller mill technology.
Read moreLOESCHE is involved in the new construction of a large cement plant in Egypt with three vertical roller mills.
Read moreIncreased demand bringing investment – LOESCHE is able to benefit from the growth in the Turkish cement industry.
Read moreProven customer relationship and convincing references were decisive in awarding the contract.
Read moreNew order confirms LOESCHE's market leadership in Vietnam, with a total of 35 LOESCHE mills in operation within the country.
Read moreEagle Cement Corporation wants to use its state-of-the-art production line to contribute to meeting the country's growing demand for construction material.
Read moreLOESCHE's sophisticated delivery schedule allows the general contractor Sinoma CDI to swiftly build six clinker production lines within only 18 months of construction and ensures a quick market access for the operator of the new Beni Suef cement plant.
Read moreThe business of combustion systems, drying systems and hot gas generators will in future be brought under one roof by LOESCHE under the name 'LOESCHE Thermal Applications'.
Read moreDG Khan Cement Company (DGKCC) was established as private limited company under the management control of State Cement Corporation of Pakistan (SCCP) in 1978 and started its commercial production in April 1986 with 2,000t/day clinker based on dry process technology.
Read moreAdvanced mill technology for the grinding of cement raw meal and cement clinker for use in high-grade building materials.
Read moreThe technological lead of LOESCHE mills and the customer's positive experience with LOESCHE reference plants proved to be decisive.
Read moreLOESCHE (Shanghai) receives another order for two sets of Loesche hot gas generator system.
Read moreEuroChem, one of the world's top ten producers of mineral fertilizers, has started operation of its crushing and processing plant in Zhanatas, in the South Kazakh region of Zhambyl.
Read moreBangladesh plans to significantly improve its cement supply by a production expansion with LOESCHE LM 56.3+3 CS mill.
Read moreThe cement plant at Mfamosing, located thirty kilometres north-east of Calabar, capital of Cross River State, Nigeria, has been fully operational since February 2009, and is equipped with the latest technology.
Read moreThai cement manufacturer Siam Cement Public (SCG) has commissioned LOESCHE with the delivery of a new vertical roller mill (VRM) of the type LM 56.3+3 CS for its cement plant in Kaeng Khoi.
Read moreFor the Dunkerque project, Ecocem France SAS, with their head office in Aix en Provence, France, has opted for another LOESCHE vertical roller mill.
Read moreLOESCHE has won the order for the new cement grinding plant in Ha Nam. The customer is Xuan Thanh Cement Joint Stock Company, a private company group established in 1976 in Vietnam, with more than 30,000 employees.
Read moreJuly 2016 is an important time for Loesche India, as the company has secured its first ever order in Nepal.
Read moreHaving purchased the LOESCHE state-of-the art vertical roller mill for the grinding of cement, Cementos San Marcos decided to supply another VRM for the grinding of coal. Up to date, the LOESCHE Mill type LM 35.2+2 is the sole vertical roller mill in this plant for cement grinding.
Read moreLOESCHE America Inc has opened registrations for its fourth Technical Seminar, to take place in Downtown Miami, from 19 September through to 22 September, 2016.
Read moreAt the beginning of this year, Loesche Energy System, UK has created a subsidiary company and founded a workshop in India.
Read moreFor the Hindupur grinding plant at Andhra Pradesh India, the customer, Sri Balaha Chemicals, has placed an order for a vertical roller mill, designed by LOESCHE. The mill, designed for grinding granulated blast furnace slag, will produce at a capacity of 50t/h and the material is ground to a fineness of 4,000cm²/g Blaine.
Read moreThe customer, MI Cement Factory, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has awarded the contract for the Munshigonj cement plant to LOESCHE GmbH, the market leader in cement grinding.
Read moreFor its emerging Cigading slag grinding plant in Cilegon, Banten, PT Krakatau Semen Indonesia awarded a contract to LOESCHE GmbH, the market leader in slag and cement grinding.
Read moreFor its cement works in Dong Son Bim Son the customer Long Son Company Ltd has placed an order with LOESCHE, a market leader in cement grinding.
Read moreLOESCHE GmbH has been successfully recertified according to ISO 9001.
Read moreThe customer Thanh Thang Group Cement JSC has placed an order for its cement plant Thanh Thang Cement with LOESCHE GmbH, the market leader in cement grinding.
Read moreThe OYAK Group is one of the largest Turkish groups of companies. This group currently comprises approximately 55 companies from the industrial as well as the financial and service sectors, with a total of 28,000 employees. With their products, sales, exports and taxes paid, the group companies create a sustained and increasing added value for the economy in Turkey and at their other international locations.
Read moreClariant Germany approached LOESCHE Düsseldorf with an exceptional request; it needed a vertical roller mill for grinding bentonite for its facility in Balikesir, Turkey. All components of the grinding system must be mobile since a future relocation is planned for the facility.
Read moreOur customer, Yoo Gyeong, awarded its first contract for its KyungNam terminal to LOESCHE GmbH, the market leader in cement grinding. To grind the granulated blast furnace slag, the customer will use an LM 41.2+2 CS type LOESCHE mill with a capacity of 90t/h at 4,500Blaine as a reliable unit. The gearbox of this mill has a power output of 2,800kW.
Read moreFor the project 'Sivas 2 RM', the customer Tianjin Cement Industry Design & Research Institute (TDI) has placed an order for a type LM 48.4 LOESCHE mill for grinding cement raw material.
Read moreFor the Song Lam cement plant, the customer Hoang Phat Vissai Group Company Ltd has placed an order for four Loesche mills via Sinoma in order to reliably cover the grinding of cement raw material and clinker with well-known equivalent technology.
Read moreFor the PT Semen Baturaja cement plant, the customer Tianjin Cement Industry Design & Research Institute Co Ltd has placed an order for two type LM 53.3+3 CS LOESCHE mills for clinker grinding.
Read moreThe Loesche GmbH has sold six coal mills for grinding coal in a power plant in Belgium, which were first commissioned in 1984.
Read moreA new kiln line is being developed in the Batisöke, Söke Cimento Sanayii TAS cement plant in Turkey. Due to their experience with a project carried out almost 25 years, ago and the technology supplied by LOESCHE at the time, the customer Batisöke, Söke Cimento Sanayii TAS has decided to collaborate with LOESCHE again in this project.
Read moreOn October 7th, 2015, the inauguration celebration of the pilot plant for a dry iron ore concentration process, developed by company New Steel of Brazil, took place in Ouro Preto, Minais Gerais, Brazil.
Read moreSinoma International ordered LOESCHE's complete grinding series for the cement plant of Nova Cimangola SA in Luanda, Angola. These will be the first LOESCHE vertical roller mills in Angola.
Read moreArabian Cement Co (ACC) is planning to build a new brown field cement line in Rabigh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with a clinker production capacity of 10,000t/pd.
Read moreIn May 2015, Loesche Energy Systems successfully signed a contract to supply five Loesche coal mills type LM 35.3D with LSKS Classifiers to Rafako SPV for a New Power Unit in TAURON Wytwarzanie SA Jawzorno III Power Plant in Poland.
Read morePT Bhumiadya Indonesia, a manufacturer of calcium carbonate, has commissioned Loesche to deliver a coal mill for its limestone plant in Indonesia.
Read moreCementos Moctezuma, Mexico has commissioned LOESCHE for the delivery of a LM 53.3+3 C cement mill, including COPE gearbox, and has chosen the latest state-of-the-art technology for their cement works in Apazapan, Mexico.
Read moreLOESCHE is holding a seminar on alternative fuels in Vienna, Austria from 6 - 8 May.
Read moreThe good quality of LOESCHE mills and the excellent references in Venezuela have convinced AVIC International Beijing customer INVECEM Industria Venezolana del Cemento to select LOESCHE products again.
Read moreAs a technological pioneer, LOESCHE is following on from the success of the largest coal mill LM 43.4 in India and the world's largest raw meal mill LM 69.6 in Nigeria. This latest triumph involves the largest slag mill in the world, which already produces 255t an hour blast-furnace slag meal in Taiyuan, northern China.
Read moreThe Finnish steel producer Ruukki Metals Oy is converting its blast furnaces at the Raahe site (Finland) from oil injectors to more cost-efficient pulverised coal injection (PCI).
Read moreKüppersbusch Wärmetechnik has been an integral element of Loesche ThermoProzess GmbH (LTP) since the complete takeover two years ago. By successfully integrating the traditional company, Loesche ThermoProzess has strengthened and consolidated its expertise and positioning as one of the leading enterprises for thermal process engineering and burners.
Read moreLast year Loesche Latinoamericana SAU signed a contract that Societe Le Nickel (SLN) integrated into ERAMET group. This contract considers the design and delivery of a new coal grinding plant to be installed in the nickel production plant already operating in Nouméa, New Caledonia.
Read moreWith over 25 years experience in manufacturing coal-grinding mills and LOMA®-Heaters for pulverised coal injection (PCI) units at steel plants, LOESCHE has now supplied more than 60 mills for this specialised application world-wide.
Read moreIn 2011 Loesche donated to a project of Charity: Water an organisation that initiates world wide projects for clean water. After 1,5 years of planning and building the community of Lutarupara-Molliktola in the Char region of Bangladesh received a tubewell and has now access to clean water and sanitation.
Read moreKüttner GmbH & Co. KG ordered for its client in Austria not one but two Loesche hot gas generators of type LF 18-L.
Read moreHebei Jintaicheng Building Materials Shareholding ordered a Loesche Mill for granulated blast furnace slag made by Loesche Mills (Shanghai).
Read moreHeidelberg Cement Group is one of the largest building materials manufacturers worldwide, a real global player.
Read moreYura S.A. has again chosen to place an order with Loesche America for a Clinker / Additives grinding plant, which will be installed in Arequipa, Peru, at 2,600m above sea level.
Read morePaul Wurth S.A. decided to install a Loesche vertical roller mill including a Loesche Hot Gas Generator in their steel factory Karabük in Turkey.
Read moreTogether with A TEC / GRECO, Loesche invited the interested clients in the region to participate in a seminar on coal grinding in Cairo on 19th March 2013.
Read moreHolcim once again chose a Loesche Mill and ordered a LM 56.4 for their cement plant in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Read moreFor the new Douala grinding terminal in Cameroon, Sinoma International Engineering (NCDRI), which has for many years been a Loesche customer, has once again decided on Loesche's vertical roller mills for this project.
Read moreIn November 2012, Loesche won a contract from the German cement company Spenner Zement for the supply and construction of one complete slag grinding plant with the Loesche mill type LM 46.2+2.
Read moreOn behalf of Dangote Industries, the management of Sinoma International Engineering Co. Ltd (NCDRI) placed another order for Loesche vertical roller mills for the cement plant Ibese Line 3 and 4.
Read moreFor the development, construction and the first operation of the OGPmobile, Loesche GmbH was rewarded with the International Mining Magazine Award 2011.
Read moreOnce again, Loesche has been successfully certified according to ISO 9001. Loesche, with their headquarters in Duesseldorf, develop and produce turn-key machinery and plant engineering and are specialised in dry grinding plants for the cement, power and steel industry as well as for the mineral processing and chemical industries.
Read moreOn 1st November 2012, Michael Nisch will start at Loesche ThermoProzess GmbH (LTP) in Gelsenkirchen as sales director for Thermo Process Technology and member of the management team.
Read moreAskale Cimento Sanayii T.A.S. is currently erecting a new 4,000tpd Clinker production line in Gümüshane, near the Black Sea about 100km south of Trabzon, Turkey. The complete project execution and coordination on site is handled by SINTEK Mining Machinery Industry Construction from Ankara.
Read moreThe company Loesche in Düsseldorf is pleased to receive a follow-up contract for a coal mill, of the type LM 28.3 D, which is the same type of coal mill already successfully deployed by RWE Power AG in Niederaußem. In July 2012, RWE Power in Essen commissioned a new vertical roller mill from Loesche.
Read moreIn July 2012, Loesche ThermoProzess GmbH (LTP) moved into new business premises in the north of Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Read moreLoesche invites you to its very first technical seminar in Düsseldorf, Germany, which will be held on 26 September 2012.
Read moreAt the new Masse cement plant of Nouvelle Cimenterie du Benin, a production of 3600 t/a clinker is planned to be produced in Benin.
Read moreAfter several round competitions against other global bidders, the final decision that placing an order for two sets of LM 4600 CS 2 slag mill from Loesche China by Loesche Mills (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has shown strong confidence in cooperation with Loesche Technology.
Read moreLOESCHE's innovative Compact Plant design for cement grinding plants was another important reason for NURYOL Cimento to choose a LOESCHE Vertical Roller Mill for cement grinding.
Read moreFor their project Dubai Coal the National Cement Co had ordered a Loesche Vertical Roller Mill Type LM 28.2 D for the capacity of 40 t/h Coal, 12% R 0,09mm.
Read moreLoesche, the market leader in dry-grinding technology, has entered into a close cooperation agreement with pyroprocess specialist A TEC Holding.
Read moreLoesche has successfully sold its 63rd Loesche mill for pulverised coal injections (PCI) for the Třinec Coal project in the Czech Republic.
Read moreIn November 2011 Loesche, the leading supplier of the world's largest vertical roller grinding mills, obtained a contract for the first ever four-roller coal mill for the injection of pulverised coal into a blast furnace.
Read moreThe dry milling of ore in Loesche vertical roller mills has shown significant process advantages, as well as economic and ecological benefits.
Read moreFor the very first time, a Loesche Round Table event will take place in New Delhi, India on 28 February - 1 March 2012.
Read moreLoesche Automation has introduced the new LM_Master for increasing performance and for supporting the operators of Loesche vertical mills
Read moreIn conjunction with placing an order for an LM46.2+2 C / S vertical mill from Loesche, PT. Semen Baturaja (Persero) awarded Loesche Automation the contract for the electronic and automation engineering.
Read moreHormigones Transex has awarded the contract for a LM26 2+2C / S cement mill in Puente Alto, Chile to Loesche.
Read moreLoesche’s brand new solution to reduce operating costs by substituting coal instead of oil or gas in various thermal applications.
Read moreIn January 2011, Loesche Energy Systems (LES) celebrated its fifth birthday. Founded in January 2006, LES handles Loesche business for the worldwide fuel-grinding markets for power generation.
Read moreLoesche India (LOI) was incorporated in the year 1995. Since then, LOI is engaged and fully equipped to handle supply of Dry Vertical grinding plants for Cement, Steel, Mineral and Power Generation industries.
Read moreReliance cementation Pvt. Ltd. is putting up a 3.3 MTPA new green field integrated unit (IU) at Maihar, Madhya Pradesh and stand alone cement grinding unit (GU) of 1.1 MTPA at Kundanganj in Raebareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. For these projects, Reliance has placed order on Loesc
Read moreM/s Jaiprakash Associates is putting up a brown field integrated unit (IU) at Shahabad, Karnataka. For this project Jaiprakash Associates has placed an order with Loesche for following mills: 1 No. LM 60.6 for raw grinding with designed capacity of 450 tph @ 15% R on 90
Read moreAfter having sold a Loesche coal mill type LM 28.3 D for the coal upgrading plant located in Niederaussem to RWE Power, Loesche has received a repeat order for the same mill type for the facility at Ville/Berrenrath, Germany. The order is based on an ongoing collaboration between RWE Po
Read moreIn May 2011 Loesche was awarded the third order of Copper Matte mill-LM31.3 in Fangchenggang City, P.R. China, following the YangGu Copper Matte project in September 2009 and Tongling Copper Matte project in July 2010. Up to now, Loesche has successfully won all the Copper Matte grinding equipmen
Read moreIn June 2011 Loesche has contracted a repeat order of two LM 28.2D PCI mills and 2 LOMA LF 20 hot gas generators for the 4.28 million tons per year expansion project BF3 of the integrated iron and steel works at Hyundai Steels Dangjin plant site, South Korea. Hyundai Steel belongs to H
Read moreKarl Kraft Steinwerke oHG, Heidenheim an der Brenz, in Germany has placed an order for a Loesche mill type LM 19.201 D for the grinding of limestone. The Loesche mill will be integrated into an existing but recently modified building. It is planned to produce two different t
Read moreLoesche is a privately-owned company with its headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany. With more than 600 employees and subsidiaries in the US, Brazil, Spain, Great Britain, South America, India, China, the United Arab Emirates and Russia, Loesche is represented all over the world. On 1 Oc
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