Cement News tagged: International
Egypt: gas supplies to cement plants replaced by fuel oil
Egypt’s decreased gas output is further squeezing fuel supplies to the country’s cement factories. The Egyptian Gas Holding Co (EGAS) has halted gas supplies to cement plants and redirected them to power plants, Daily News (Egypt) reports. The Al-Qatameya, Helwan and Al-Qawmeya plants have been exempted from the gas cuts as they are directly connected to the Abu Gharadiq gas field, according...
Indonesia: 2014 cement sales fall short of expectations
Indonesian cement sales fell short of expectations last year, increasing by 3.6 per cent YoY to 59.9Mt, according to the latest data from the Indonesia Cement Association (ASI). Including exports, total sales increased by three per cent to 60.174Mt. Cement exports were upby 30.5 per cent to 220,284t while clinker exports fell 88.7 per cent to 44,878t. Java remained the largest cement consump...
New Guinea-Bissau grinding plant seeks IFC loan
HeidelbergCement subsidiary Scancem, in partnership with Maxime Cardoz, a private investor from Senegal, has applied to the IFC for a loan of EUR11m to help finance Guinea-Bissau's first grinding plant. The Cardoz Cimentos de Bissau project, which is 60 per cent owned by Cardoz and 40 per cent by Scancem, would be located 1.5km from the port of Bissau, a plant location in an area which curre...
Mixed performance for Iranian exports
Iran cement exports fell 8.5 per cent YoY in the first eight months of the current Iranian calendar, but a rise in clinker shipments boosted the overall total. During the first eight months of the year (beginning 21 March 2014) cement exports amounted to 9.25Mt, Iran’s IRNA News Agency reported. Abdolreza Sheykhan, an official with the Iran's Cement Producers Association, said that the in...
Polish output up 6.8% YoY
Full year Polish cement production increased 6.8 per cent YoY in 2014 to 15.4Mt, according to the country's cement association. Cement production edged up by 1.9 per cent YoY to 861,7000t in December, while sales were ahead by 805,800t, Poland's Cement Producer Association said in a statement.
US Jan-Oct shipments up eight per cent YoY
Total shipments of portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico for the January-October 2014 period were 75.8Mt, an increase of eight per cent YoY, latest data from the US Geological Survey (USGS) shows. Shipments in October 2014 were 9.6Mt, up 10 per cent from the same month of the previous year. The leading portland-cement producing states in October were Texas, Missouri...
Dominican Republic sales up 18% YoY
The Dominican Republic market expanded by 18 per cent in 2014, surpassing the 16 per cent achieved the year before despite significant over capacity prevailing. Carlos E Gonzalez, president of Adocem, attributed the growth to a strong economy which maintained a seven per cent growth, and the momentum in both the public and private construction sectors. Mr Gonzalez added that the government’s...
Stronger markets in 2015?
What does 2015 have in store for the cement sector? After three relatively poor years in terms of global construction expansion, Morgan Stanley (UK) predicts a tentative recovery in world consumption in spite of a significant slowdown in China, according to new analysis published in International Cement Review. Morgan Stanley expects global cement demand, inclusive of China, to rise to...
Argentine cement market contracts 3.5 per cent in 2014
In December 2014, Argentina’s cement demand fell 10.4 per cent MoM and 2.5 per cent YoY to 892,313t, according to the latest data from AFCP, the Argentine cement association. The country’s cement producers supplied 905,306t of cement, including exports, registering a MoM drop of 10.4 per cent and 2.4 per cent YoY. For the full-year, domestic demand reached 11,271,399t, down 3.5 per cent w...
Peru: Jidong to finalise acquisition talks
The Jidong Development Group of China may finalise discussions over the takeover of Peruvian cement firm Cementos Interoceanicos in the next few weeks, Esmerk Latin American News reported on Wednesday. Jidong representatives have visited Cementos Interoceanicos’ activities in Puno, southeast Peru, as part of the negotiation process, the report stated, adding that the Peruvian company is cur...
Semen Baturaja on course to meet 2016 production target, Indonesia
PT Semen Baturaja is on course to achieve its production target of 3.6Mt in 2016 to help meet increasing demand in South Sumatra and neighbouring regions. The state-owned Indonesian company is seeking to expand its production capacity and build a number of new production facilities to meet the target, company’s chief spokesman Sahadi told local press. He said the company has optimize the ...
IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference - registration open!
Registration is now open for the 57th annual IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference, to be held at the Sheraton Centre Hotel in Toronto, Canada, over 26-30 April 2015. This year’s conference theme is “BIG”. The conference is the biggest in the industry and will be hosted in Canada’s biggest city. The biggest technical ideas will be presented in technical sessions, tutorial sessio...
South Africa sees pick-up in 3Q cement sales
South African cement sales rose by 4.6 per cent to 3.39Mt in the third quarter of 2014 after contracting in the previous two quarters, industry data released by the country’s leading producer shows. However, full-year sales are expected to be lag those achieved in 2013 as a challenging operating environment prevails. Figures posted by PPC show that volumes in the first nine months of the yea...
Costa Rica: cement price rises up to 5% at end-2014
The price of cement rose by 4.3-5 per cent at the end of December 2014, depending on supplier, according to the national daily La Nacion. The first to adjust prices, by five per cent upwards, was Cemex on 22 December, followed five days later by Holcim, which increased prices by 4.3 per cent. Both companies have attributed the increase to a rise in inflation, which reached 5.13 per cent at th...
Semen Indonesia outlines 2015 capex plans
PT Semen Indonesia Tbk has prepared capital expenditures worth IDR7-9trn (US$550m-706m), to fund new plants, upgrades and possibly further international expansion. Of the total, around IDR5trn would be invested in the new plants in Rembang, Central Java, and Indarung, West Sumatra, the company’s finance director Ahyanizzaman told the Jakarta Post. The new plant in Indarung was expected to s...
Positive outlook for Polish sales
Cement sales in Poland are expected to have increased to around the 15Mt mark in 2014 from 14.3Mt in the previous year, with further medium-term growth anticipated. Despite the first half of 2014 proving positive for the Polish cement industry the trend changed visibly in the second half of the year, according to industry commentators. However, thanks to projects planned by the General Direct...