Cement News tagged: International
Ghana: new Dangote plant
Dangote Cement have announced plans to establish another cement plant in Takoradi, Ghana. The new grinding plant will have a capacity of 1.5Mta. The company has acquired 41 acres (17ha) of land for the project.
Algeria: GICA to build cement plants
GICA signed two agreements on Tuesday in Algiers with Chinese equipment manufacturer CBMI (a subsidiary of Sinoma) to build a new cement plant in Bechar and extend the plant in Zahana (Mascara). Owned by GICA subsidiary Saoura Cement Co, the new plant in Bechar will have a capacity of 1Mta and is expected to start production in 2018. Zahana cement plant currently has a production capacity o...
Vietnam: production rises 16.1% over first five months
Cement production in Vietnam reach 31.4Mt in the first five months of this year, rising 16.1 per cent from a year earlier, the government-run General Statistics Office said. In May the country's cement output is likely to rise 17 per cent from the same month of last year to 7Mt, the office said in a monthly report. In the first four months, Vietnam produced to 24.4Mt, according to revised fi...
Tanga Cement to start new kiln
A second kiln line is under construction at Tanga Cement Company Ltd (TCCL), Tanzania, which will increase clinker production capacity at the facility to 1.2Mta. The new line, which is to be commissioned soon, will have an annual clinker capacity of 700,000t and enable the company to displace more costly clinker imports. “We expect that by completion, the kiln that will cost some US$165m (TZ...
Pakistan: Fauji Cement silo collapse disrupts production
Fauji Cement Company Ltd (Pakistan) has reportedly halted production due to the collapse of the raw material silo at its Jhang Bahtar cement plant in Attock District, Punjab. The 25,000t capacity raw material silo collapsed and also damaged the coal mill building of the plant’s 7200tpd clinker production Line 2, requiring the closure of the line for up to six months until the damage is repair...
Italy: Consolidation needed as consumption forecast to remain depressed
With the European Commission having this week given the go-ahead to HeidelbergCement’s acquisition of Italcementi, Italy’s largest cement producer is set to become even less dependent upon what was until now its home market. Since 2007 Italcementi's domestic market has contracted from a peak consumption of 46.4Mt nine years ago to 19.6Mt in 2015, with demand predicted to be flat in 2016. The I...
Russia: Eurocement expects further fall in cement demand
Cement demand in Russia will slump by 8-10 per cent in 2016 after falling 12 per cent in 2015, the owner of leading Russian cement producer Eurocement Group, Filaret Galchev, said in an interview on TV channel Rossiya 24. Eurocement controls about a third of the Russian cement market, and will sell about 20Mt of cement in Russia and about 3.5Mt in other regions such as Uzbekistan and Ukrain...
Nigeria: Dangote majority contributor to solid mineral revenues
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has revealed that Dangote paid NGN15.9bn (US$80m) in taxes on solid minerals in 2013, more than the rest of the industry combined, Vanguard reports. The NEITI report showed that in 2013 the government of Nigeria received revenues of NGN33.86bn (US$170m) in taxes on solid minerals, to which Dangote paid 53 per cent. In all, fi...
Pakistan: construction sector demands reduction in cement prices
The Association of Builders and Developers of Pakistan (ABAD) has called on the government to reduce the price of cement in country or to allow the importation of supplies from alternative sources. In their appeal, ABAD accused the All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA) of not passing on energy cost reductions, despite promises to that effect made to the government. Coal and ...
Ghana: Dangote appeals for ban on Chinese imports
Dangote has called on the government of Ghana to ban imports of Chinese cement, warning that the measure is necessary to save local producers from collapse, Ghanaweb reports. In addition to the economic impact of such imports, Dangote also claimed that Chinese cement was not subject to proper quality checks and as such could put consumers at risk. Joseph Abo, sales and marketing manager of ...
Moroccan cement demand slips 2.7% in April
Following a positive first quarter, Moroccan cement demand fell 2.7 per cent in April as construction activity slowed and the real estate market was subdued. The decrease breaks with the growth recorded in the first quarter of 2016. The trend has been aided by a 12 per cent drop in housing starts while the decline in real estate loans and the financial situation of major development has sub...
Spain: April cement demand contracts 3.3%
Cement consumption in Spain fell 3.3 per cent YoY in April, slipping to 946,329t, according to Oficemen. The latest data bring the figures for the first four months of 2016 to 3,512,140t, reflecting a decrease of 1.2 per cent YoY. Oficemen attributes the decline particularly to public works, which, according Oficemen’s director general, Aniceto Zaragoza, "is being much worse than expect...
Rwanda: rail and energy projects to boost cement demand
The Rwandan government’s announcement of two major infrastructure projects is set to be a boon for the country’s cement producers, the Mail and Guardian Africa reports. The KivuWatt gas-water extraction project will take gas from Lake Kivu to generate 100MW of electricity by 2019, while the Dar es Salaam-Isaka-Kigali/Keza-Musongati (DIKKM) standard-gauge railway will link Rwanda with ports ...
Iraq promises to remove Iran import ban
Iraq has promised to remove the ban placed on Iranian cement imports, according to Adolreza Sheikhan, secretary of Iran's Cement Industry Employers Association. Following meetings between Iranian and Iraqi officials, Baghdad promised to give priority to Iranian exports once the general ban on cement import is removed, Mr Sheikhan said. Iran's cement and clinker exports witnessed a 20 per...
Philippines 1Q16 cement sales up 13%
Philippines cement sales increased by 12.8 per cent YoY in the first quarter of 2016, according to Ernesto Ordoñez, President of the Cement Manufacturers' Association of the Philippines (CeMAP). Volumes rose from 5.7Mt in 1Q15 to 6.43Mt. "Demand will continue to be strong, especially with presumptive President Duterte saying that infrastructure will remain a high priority during his administ...
Bangladesh: FDI from Netherlands
Bangladesh’s cement sector attracted foreign direct investment (FDI) of US$31.3m in 2015, according to a Bangladesh Central Bank report. This figure is up 41.5 per cent from that of 2014. The report showed that last year around half of the FDI in the cement sector came from The Netherlands, with investments also coming from Germany, Hong Kong, Switzerland, among others. According to a local ...