Cement News tagged: International
India invites expressions of interest for CCI units
The government of India has announced plans to sell four non-operating units of state-owned Cement Corporation of India. “Cement Corporation of India has started the sale process as it has invited expressions of interest for the outright sale of four non-operational units. The sale would be done through an e-auction process,” an official said. The government owns 100 per cent of the public s...
Moroccan sales slide 12.6% in first six months
In the first half of 2013 Moroccan cement sales fell 12.6 per cent YoY to 7.8Mt, although the pace of decline significantly eased in the second quarter, latest statistics from the Directorate of Studies and Planning of the country’s Ministry of Economy and Finance show. While the market continues to contract, second-quarter sales fell by four per cent, far less than the 21 per cent drop reco...
Vietnam August production rises 8.32%
Vietnam cement production in August climbed to 4.9Mt, an 8.32 per cent increase compared to the same period of last year, the General Statistics Office has said. Compared to July 2013, last month’s output rose by 6.52 per cent on a MoM basis. The office revised down production in July to 4.6Mt from a previous estimate of 5.1Mt. In the first eight months of this year, the country is estimated...
Nepal allocates power supply funds to nine plants
Nepal's Ministry of Industry (MoI) has decided to allocate NPR360m (US$3.5m) to provide electricity connections to nine cement factories as part of its infrastructural development programme for manufacturing industries. The cement producers to be awarded the funds include: Shivan Cement, Dang Cement, Laxmi Cement, Rolpa Cement, Ghorahi Cement, United Cement, Maruti Cement, Sarbottam Cement a...
Nigeria: CCNN requires NGN45bn for new line
A new 1Mta clinker line together with a coal grinding mill and accessories is likely to cost Cement Company of Northern Nigeria (CCNN) around NGN45bn (US$278m). CCNN intends to add the new kiln line, which will produce its Sokoto brand of cement, to meet rising demand in Nigeria. Demand rose to 18.3Mt last year and since 2005, the cement industry nearly doubled its capacity, according to local...
Thailand: slower consumption for Siam Cement
Domestic cement consumption for Thailand's Siam Cement (SCC) is expected to be weaker over the next year, according to local paper The Nation. An SCC group meeting of local investors with Siam Cement's CEO, Kan Trakulhoon, and CFO Chaovalit Ekabut shed light on the company's current prospects and the cement market going forward. Trakulhoon explained that a softening of the property market an...
Colombia's regulator investigates price fixing
Colombia's Superintendency of Industry and Commerce will be opening an investigation into the alleged price-fixing by five local cement companies. The regulator will examine whether Holcim (Colombia), Cementos Argos, Cementos Tequendama, Cemex Colombia and Cementos Marcos have been colluding in the setting of cement prices over the past three years. The regulator has said it will look into...
Russian cement production in June reaches 7.1Mt
Substantial rises in Russian cement production and consumption have been achieved in 1H13. SMPro analysts state that Russian cement producers achieved an output of 7.1Mt of cement in June, the highest monthly production in 2013. Meanwhile, cement consumption rose by 4.8 per cent compared to June 2012 and by 14.6 per cent with May to 7.5Mt. Russia's overall 1H13 production total was 29.9Mt, a...
Najran Cement hopes to re-open second line
Najran Cement announced a temporary closure of its second cement line yesterday for scheduled maintenance, which is likely to cost around SAR400,000 (US$106.655). The shutdown is not expected to affect the company's supply of cement to the market. The closure follows repairs to the company's first line which has already been closed twice this year. Work also began to start pilot production at...
Cement Australia fined AUD100,000 after worker's death
Cement Australia has been found guilty of failing to comply with Australian Standard Safety of Machinery requirements following a worker's death and has been fined AUD100,000 (US$90,080). A conveyor system at Cement Australia's Kandos works was found to be insufficiently guarded when an employee was pinned between two electronic rams. The incident, which took place in 2009, resulted in the ...
Italy: plant closure opposed
The mayors of the Pescara mining basin have voiced their opposition to the closure of Italcementi's Scafa plant and have asked the company to review its plans. They are also ready to assert their own reasons, to broaden the discussion at the national level. "Italcementi must comply with the national agreements signed in December last year, accepted by the social partners, in contrast to wha...
Cemex seeks further collaboration for housing and infrastructure projects
During its participation in the XLVIII Inter-American and Caribbean Housing Conference, Cemex announced that it has collaborated in the development of infrastructure projects, as well as in the construction of close to 10,000 housing units. Speaking at the event in the Chilean capital Santiago, Carlos González, president of Cemex in the Dominican Republic and leader of Cemex's Infrastructure...
Nepal: standards bureau cracks down on cement plants
The Nepal Bureau of Standards & Metrology (NBSM) has shut down Butwal Cement Mills and Shubha Shree Jagadamba. The block was introduced after the companies were said to be manufacturing and selling substandard products. The NBSM also barred 16 other cement factories from production and selling of their products for not acquiring Nepal Standard (NS) mark. “We initiated action against these ...
Qatar: large order for Mercedes-Benz vehicles
Nasser Bin Khaled (NBK) Automobiles has signed an order with Khalid Cement Industries Complex (KCIC) of Qatar for the supply of 141 Mercedes-Benz branded industrial vehicles. The order includes including 42 tipper trucks, 65 tractor heads, 28 crane and cargo body type, five water and sewage tankers and one loader vehicle. KCIC has also agreed a full-service contract valid up to 750,000km or a ...
New senior vice president for Buzzi Unicem USA
George Garcia has been promoted to senior vice president operations at Buzzi Unicem USA, effective from 1 July 2013. He will be based at Buzzi Unicem USA's Corporate Office in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and will report to Dave Nepereny, president and CEO of Buzzi Unicem USA. Since 2001, Garcia served as the plant manager at Buzzi Unicem's Chattanooga factory, a position he assumed after leadin...
Cement makers hit by infrastructure slump in emerging markets
Cement producers have been sliding on the financial stock exchanges as emerging market bonds and equities tumble, according to the Financial Times. Many of the region’s building materials groups have invested heavily in the emerging markets and fears that falling foreign investment will negatively impact state spending on large projects has underpinned stock market losses. Swiss major Holcim ...