Cement News tagged: International
Tanzania: Tanga in talks for increased rail usage
Tanga Cement Co Ltd (TCCL) is finalising discussions with the government of Tanzania to use the Tanga-Moshi railway to Arusha for transportation of its products, according to Prof Makame Mbarawa, Minister for Works, Transport and Communication. TCCL has pledged to use the railway line to transport 35,000tpm. The move is intended to minimise damage to the country’s road network. Masanja Kadog...
Lucky Cement unit gets licence to generate 660MW coal power
The government of Pakistan has licensed Lucky Electric Power Co, a concern of Lucky Cement, to generate electricity from its 660MW coal-fired plant. “In order to meet the future energy needs of the country and to improve the energy mix, the Pakistan Power Infrastructure Board issued letter of intent to various local and foreign investors/groups, including Lucky Cement Limited for setting up 6...
US full-year shipments reach 91.5Mt
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the US and Puerto Rico in 2015 totalled 91.5Mt, up 3.5 per cent compared to the previous year, latest data from the US Geological Survey shows. In December 2015 alone, shipments were about 6.6Mt, up by 5.6 per cent YoY. The leading producing states for Portland and blended cement in December were Texas, California, Missouri, Florida and Alabam...
Pakistan 8MFY16 dispatches rise on higher domestic demand
Pakistan cement dispatches rose 17.49 per cent to 20.89Mt during the first eight months (July-February) of 2015-16 from 17.78Mt in the same period last year. However, exports declined by 24 per cent to 3.8Mt from 5Mt in July-February 2014-15. Total dispatches during the period increased to 24.76Mt from 22.78Mt a year ago, an increase of 8.69 per cent. In February 2016 local sales rose ...
Honduras: 5.2% YoY rise in cement price in December 2015
The price of a 42.5kg bag of cement increased to HNL183 (US$8.09) in December 2015, up 5.2 per cent from HNL174 in December 2014, according to the Honduran Chamber of Construction (Chico). However, the price varies between HNL186-188 in the hardware stores of the capital and over HNL190 in other cities, mainly due to differences in transport costs. The latest rise is part of a longer-term ...
Song Lam 2 begins commercial operations, Vietnam
Hoang Phat Vissai Group said that its Song Lam 2 cement plant in the central province of Nghe An, Vietnam, has started commercial operation smoothly. Output from the plant includes cement types PCP 30, PCP 40 and clinker PCP 50, which are sold in the central region and via the group’s distribution network. The Song Lam 2 cement plant, formerly known as PetroVietnam Cement 12/9 JSC, is situat...
Vietnam Jan-Feb sales up 6% YoY
Companies in Vietnam sold 9.44Mt of cement and clinker in the first two months of this year, rising six per cent from a year earlier and fulfilling 12.42 per cent of the whole-year target, the Building Material Department under the Ministry of Construction said. Of the sum, 7.26Mt of cement were sold at the domestic market, up nine per cent YoY, while 2.18Mt were exported, down three per cen...
Semen Indonesia eyes 4-5% first-half sales growth
Semen Indonesia expects cement sales to grow between 4-5 per cent in Jan-Jun, driven by the government's push for infrastructure projects, Bisnis Indonesia reported quoting Suparni, president director of the company. For full-year 2015, the company reported an 18.7 per cent drop in net profit to IDR4.52trn (US$336.56m) due to the increase in electricity and distribution costs, as well as t...
ThaiGroup JSC signs South Africa export supply agreement
ThaiGroup JSC, formerly known as Xuan Thanh Group JSC, has signed deal with the UK-based Ores & Minerals UK Ltd to export cement to South Africa, local media said. Under the contract worth US$1.2bn signed on 2 March 2016, the Vietnamese company will export a total volume of 20Mt of cement to South Africa within 10 years, said Nguyen Xuan Thuy, general director of ThaiGroup JSC. The Vietnam...
Colombia January cement consumption up 3%
In January 2016 Colombia’s cement market expanded by three per cent to 0.956Mt from 0.928Mt in the same month a year earlier, according to latest data from country’s statistics office, DANE. Growth was particularly strong in Córdoba (+44.1 per cent), Risaralda (+42 per cent), Norte de Santander (+33.5 per cent) and Valle del Cauca (+10.7 per cent). Cement production increased 7.3 per cent ...
Hope unveils state-of-the-art rail wagons, UK
Hope Construction Materials has unveiled 48 state-of-the-art rail wagons, developed in partnership with VTG Rail UK. The vehicles were officially launched at an event at the Hope Works cement plant in Hope Valley, Derbyshire, with the ribbon cut by Under Secretary of State for Transport, Andrew Jones, MP. Transport Minister, Andrew Jones, local MP, Andrew Bingham, and Ashley Bryan, ...
Dominican Republic: market expands, prices fall
National cement production in the Dominican Republic reached 5.18Mt, an increase of 3.2 per cent YoY, according to official statistics. This represents 75 per cent of the country’s installed production capacity of 6.91Mt. Meanwhile, the domestic market expanded by 6.2 per cent when compared with 2014. A total of 3.97Mt of cement was sold on the back of a construction sector that showed 18.2...
Dem Rep Congo: cement price falls 15% in Kinshasa
The price of a bag of grey cement in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, has fallen from CDF12,500 (US$13.54) at the start of the year to CDF10,500 at the end of February, representing a fall of 15 per cent. The decrease in price has been attributed to the supply of Chinese cement imports.
Vietnam output rises 15.8% in first two months
Vietnam produced 10.8Mt of cement in the first two months of this year, rising 15.8 per cent from a year earlier, the government-run General Statistics Office said. In February the country’s cement output rose 26.6 per cent YoY to 4.8Mt. The Ministry of Construction forecasts that Vietnam’s sales of cement and clinker will rise 4-7 per cent YoY to between 75-77Mt in 2016.
Approval granted for new Quang Nam plant, Vietnam
ThaiGroup JSC has received approval from the Peoples’ Committee of Quang Nam province in Vietnam's central region to develop the second cement plant in the area. The company plans to build the plant on an area of 6.5ha in Thanh My town, Nam Giang district, Vietnam's Ministry of Construction said. The plant, named Thanh My 2 cement plant, will have a total investment of VND11trn (US$489m) and...
Israel: government notifies Nesher on price cut
The government of Israel has notified Nesher Cement Enterprises Ltd that it must cut prices due to lower-priced inputs, local press have reported. Following a drop in the prices of raw materials for making cement, mainly oil prices, the Ministers of Finance and the Economy notified Nesher Israel Cement Enterprises Ltd of a 5.35 per cent cut in the price of cement. The revision was according t...