Lynas Rare Earth has awarded a $12 million rotary kiln erection contract, including the installation of pumps, agitators and heat exchangers.
Alltype Engineering will install and erect the new kiln at Lynas Rare Earth’s Processing Facility in Kalgoorlie.
Lynas’ new Rare Earths Processing Facility in Kalgoorlie will treat rare earth concentrate from its Mt Weld mine to produce Rare Earth carbonate, which will be packaged and transported to Fremantle Port for export to the Lynas Malaysia Advanced Materials Plant in Gebeng, Malaysia for further processing.
The award scope encompasses the following:
- Erection of a six-metre diameter by 110m long, four pier kiln and all structural and all mechanical drive ancillaries
- Erection of discharge hood
- Fabrication and installation of discharge end building
- Fabrication and installation of dust chute from discharge and seal
- Erection of burner management systems and all ancillaries
- Fabrication and installation of primary leach overflow rubber lined hopper
- Installation of pumps, agitators, heat exchangers and all service piping
- Installation of all electrical and instrumental works including cabling, infrastructure and instruments
The project involves site establishment, removing area working conditions and logistics with a combination of local and FIFO workforce.
