Cement News tagged: International
Brazil Jan-August sales down 6.8% YoY
Brazilian sales over the first eight months of this year fell 6.8 per cent YoY to 43.7Mt compared to the 46.9Mt sold in 2014, according to preliminary data and market estimates gathered by Brazilian cement association Sindicato Nacional da Indústria de Cimento (SNIC). In August 2015 alone, sales totalled 5.6Mt, down 10.4 per cent YoY. Imports totaled 46,000t in August, a decrease of 52 per...
CEMBUREAU second-quarter report shows slowing GDP momentum across EU
The latest CEMBUREAU Quarterly Economic Report, published yesterday, highlights that although real GDP has continued to grow in 2Q15, the momentum has slowed compared to the previous quarter (+0.4 per cent vs +0.5 per cent). In this respect, business and consumer confidence indicators have fallen slightly in 2Q but have remained steadily above 2014 levels since January 2015, the European cemen...
ASI confident on Sept-Dec sales growth, Indonesia
The Indonesian Cement Association (ASI), is confident that sales will rise by 4-5 per cent beginning in September until December 2015. This optimism, according to association Widodo Santoso , is based on information that the million-house project as well as infrastructure projects outside Java have commenced. "An increase of four per cent is relatively easy to achieve. Last year, we didn't h...
Cemex recognises suppliers' innovation
Cemex announced yesterday the winners of “INTEGRATE your ideas”, the company’s Global Sourcing Suppliers Innovation Programme. From a pool of 22 international participants, the top three ideas were selected by Cemex mainly for their innovation, potential financial contribution to the company’s operations, ease of implementation and degree of scalability in different countries. The ideas subm...
Argentine provinces experience supply shortages
Cement suppliers in Mendoza province in Argentina have started importing cement from Chile due to a continued and deepening cement supply crisis in recent months. Those that have already been granted permission from the Argentine tax agency to do so are already importing 50kg sacks from the country. Holcim recently told the local branch of Argentina's construction sector chamber that it was...
Kenya: Bamburi rolls out training seminars for improved construction quality standards
Over 1600 masons from across the country are set to benefit from a training programme organised by Bamburi Cement to improve skills in the building and construction industry in Kenya. Bamburi Cement rolled out the free training seminars from across the country in August, a move aimed at improving construction quality standards in the country. The training seminars are part of the Builders Ac...
Vicat considers extension of Kazakh plant and construction of new terminal
The Kazakh Vice Minister of Investment and Development of Kazakhstan, Albert Rau, has met with President of Vicat Group, Guy Sidos, and Honorary President of the group, Jacques Merceron-Vicat, to discuss the operation and possible extension of Vicat's existing production plant at Zhambyl. The meeting also announced the construction of a US$10m terminal in Astana in 2016, according to rep...
Shangfeng Cement to raise funds for expansion
Chinese cement producer Shangfeng Cement Co Ltd announced Tuesday to raise no more than CNY1.5bn (US$235.78m) via private placement for overseas expansion. The company will issue no more than 161.12m shares at a price of 9.31 yuan per share. The money will be earmarked to invest in two overseas projects including a 3200tpd line in Tajikistan and a 3200tpd line in Uzbekistan. According to th...
Dangote Tanzanian plant set for October commissioning
Dangote Cement is set to commission its new 3Mta cement plant located in Mtwara District of Tanzania on 10 October 2015. The company will also hold the groundbreaking ceremony for 25ha of jetty land at Mgao village in Mtwara District in the country the same day, according to AllAfrica News. The commissioning of the new cement plant, which is part of the company's Africa expansion strategy, w...
Cemex expects social initiatives to benefit over 10m people by 2020
Cemex announced today that, after reaching close to 7m beneficiaries through its social programmes, it has set the goal of benefiting more than 10m people by the year 2020. Cemex made the announcement during the United Nations Private Sector Forum 2015 meetings held in New York City, attended by Fernando A Gonzalez, CEO of Cemex. Cemex supports infrastructure and housing development in the c...
JSW Group plans Salboni plant, India
JSW Group announced that it will be setting up a 2.4Mta grinding plant at Salboni in West Midnapore district, West Bengal, India. A 10Mt steel plant was originally planned for the site, but the company has not proceeded with the project thus far due to coal and iron linkages and problems with the land lease. However, chairman Sajjan Jindal explained to local press that JSW wants to have so...
Orient Cement commissions Karnataka plant, India
Orient Cement has commissioned and started commercial production of its new integrated greenfield cement plant Chittapur, Gulbarga district, Karnataka, with an installed capacity of 3Mta. The first consignment of cement from the new plant was dispatched on 26 September 2015. Completion of the project lifts Orient Cement’s total cement capacity to 8Mta.
NCC kicks off Pangasinan plant expansion
Northern Cement Corp (NCC), part of the San Miguel Corp, has broken ground on the US$200m expansion of its plant in Pangasinan, Philippines. The new project will double the facility's capacity to more than 2Mta. "The economy and infrastructure sector are growing rapidly and by expanding NCC, we are supporting the development efforts of the Philippine government and reducing dependence on imp...
Egypt prices decline on slower construction activity
Egyptian prices have declined three times in the past two months as a result of increased supply and low demand in the market, local media have reported. A ton of cement now costs EGP550 (US$70), down from EGP700 (US$89) at the beginning of August, the construction materials division of Cairo Chamber of Commerce Ahmed al-Zeiny told Youm7 Sunday. Zeiny attributed the decline to the lack of c...
Paraguay: cement price spikes 20%
In the past few weeks the price for a bag of cement in Paraguay has spiked to PYG56,000 from PYG45,000, up 20 per cent. The price rise has been attributed to technical issues with the kiln of Industria Nacional del Cemento and is expected to fall once the have been resolved.
Kenya: West Pokot plant construction poised for 2016 start
Construction work on a long-awaited cement plant in West Pokot County, Kenya, is due to commence early next year, company officials have confirmed. Cemtech Ltd, a subsidiary of India's Sanghi Group of companies, will begin construction work for the KES12bn following approval by engineers who had earlier raised queries over its site, among other issues. The company acquired 650 hectares of l...