Cement News tagged: International
Dangote opens grinding plant in Cameroon, Zimbabwe works on the cards
Dangote Cement Plc has inaugurated its 1.5Mta cement grinding plant in Douala, Cameroon. In addition, the company laid the foundation for a 200m terminal in Base Elf area, of the Douala Port. President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, said he company has decided to begin work on the second phase of the plant, which will see the doubling of its capacity to 3Mta. Zimbabwe plans The compa...
Cemex inaugurates grinding mill in Nicaragua
Cemex announced today that its subsidiary Cemex Latam Holdings, SA has completed the construction of the first phase of a new cement grinding plant in Ciudad Sandino, Managua. CLH invested approximately US$30m for infrastructure procurement and the installation of the first cement grinding mill, with a capacity of approximately 220,000tpa.. The inauguration ceremony took place yesterday at t...
Dangote Cement signs fresh deal with Sinoma
Dangote Cement yesterday signed contracts worth about about US$4.34bn with Chinese firm Sinoma International to build factories across Africa and one in Asia. Cement facilities will be built in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia, Senegal, Niger, Mali, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana as well as in Nepal. The latest developments will boost capacity to more than 70Mta and Dangote is targeting furt...
Cementos Argos inaugurates Innovation Center, Colombia
Cementos Argos yesterday inaugurated its Innovation Center, based at the EAFIT University, Colombia, underlining the company commitment towards productive, competitive and sustainable growth. The Innovation Center has been designed to foster a collaborative environment, making laboratories available to researchers, students and scholars from different universities to find solutions for the ...
Bosnia: Fabrika Cementa Lukavac first-half net profit down 45%
The net profit of Bosnian cement maker Fabrika Cementa Lukavac (FCL) dropped 45 per cent to BAM4.2m (EUR2.1m) in the first half of 2015, according to company data released Tuesday. Operating income dropped 17.3 per cent to BAM23m through June, hile operating costs fell 12.4 per cent to BAM19.2ma, the company said in filing with the Sarajevo Stock Exchange. FCL, which is owned by Austria-base...
Hoang Phat Vissai Group completes Song Lam 2 project, Vietnam
Hoang Phat Vissai Group (The Vissai) on Tuesday hosted an opening ceremony to mark the launch for its Song Lam 2 cement plant in Vietnam's central province of Nghe An. With the operation of Song Lam 2 cement plant, The Vissai will supply an additional volume of 600,000t of PCB30 cement to the central region, the Cong Thuong online newspaper reported Tuesday. The Song Lam 2 cement plant, for...
VCM gets grinding project green light, Vietnam
Vietnam’s central province of Binh Dinh has granted approval to the Vietnam Construction Material Company (VCM) to establish a new grinding plant in the region. VCM can survey areas at industrial parks in the province for the 1Mta grinding plant, the Ministry of Construction said on its website on 21 August. The new project is expected to an involve an investment of VND600bn (US$26.9m), VC...
New licences to be issued for Upper Egypt
Egypt's Ministry of Industry and Trade is to grant new licences for cement factories in Upper Egypt governorates next September, according to local press reports. Minister Monir Fakhry Abdel Nour said during an interview with the "60 Minutes" radio show on Radio Masr that the new licences target meeting future needs of local market for cement until 2020. The ministry will announce the new li...
LH completes Tuban plant project in Indonesia
LafargeHolcim today completed its Tuban project in Indonesia with the official opening of the second kiln line at the cement plant. The new plant will allow LafargeHolcim to tap into key developing markets in Indonesia’s East Java Province. The plant’s coastal location and jetty provides the Group with the flexibility to ship products to other important interisland markets including Sumatra, K...
New UK terminal granted conditional approval
The Victoria Group has been granted conditional approval by Plymouth City Council to build a new bulk cement storage and distribution terminal on the city's waterfront, situated on the south coast of Devon, UK. The Plymouth Herald reported last week that the new depot is part of plans to transport tens of thousands of tonnes of cement of cement shipped in and out of Plymouth every year by shi...
JSW Group resumes plans for Bengal plant, India
The JSW Group has proposed to build a 2.5Mta slag-based cement plant in Salboni, Bengal. Should everything proceed as planned, the Mumbai-based conglomerate may start the project next year. The company had originally signed an agreement with the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-government to invest in a 10Mt steel and 1680MW power plant, which had included a cement unit to utilise the slag generated...
PT Semen Tonasa operations unaffected by fire, Indonesia
PT Semen Tonasa cement plant remains in normal operation despite damage causd by a fire on Wednesday to one of its facilities at the Unit IV plant, South Sulawesi, the Jakarta Post reports. The fire, which broke out at the coal mill transport belt resulted in one fatality with 10 others injured. PT Semen Tonasa managing director Unggul Attas confirmed on Thursday that the fire did not affec...
Cimerwa inaugurates expansion project
Rwanda prime minister Anastase Murekez on Tuesday inaugurated Cimerwa’s new dry-process line which boosts capacity at the plant from 0.1Mta to 0.6Mta. The Rwanda cement producer, in which PPC owns a 51 per cent stake, has invested US$170m to convert its wet-process plant to new dry-process technology. Speaking during the launch, Murekezi said that the new plant presents an opportunity for t...
Messebo studies option for new grinding plant, Ethiopia
Ethiopia-based Messebo Cement Factory Plc has hired state-owned consultant Industrial Projects Service (IPS) to conduct an assessment of the Addis Ababa market with a view to opening a new grinding plant in the region. The project is mainly intended to minimise the transportation cost incurred from the company’s cement plant located in Mekelle to the Ethiopian capital, a distance of 770km. T...
Chinese company signs MoU for Pakistan plant
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Punjab government and Chinese cement company Yantai Baoqiao Jinhong for the establishment of a cement plant, according to reports by the Business Recorder (Pakistan). Under the agreement, Yantai Baoqiao Jinhong is to establish the plant in Salt Range, Punjab province, involving an investment of US$350m. Punjab Chief Minister ...
US first-half shipment update - preliminary data
Shipments of Portland and blended cement in the US and Puerto Rico over the first half of 2015 totalled around 40.78Mt, preliminary data from the US Geological Survey shows. Of the total, imports accounted for 4.07Mt. In June alone, shipments reached 8.935Mt, including 930,581t of imports. Meanwhile, clinker production over the six month period totalled 35.3Mt, with output in June reported t...