Cement News tagged: International
ThyssenKrupp awarded new Holcim Indonesia cement plant project
ThyssenKrupp Polysius has won a contract from PT Holcim Indonesia Tbk, to build a second cement plant near the town of Tuban on the northern coast of the island of Java. The contract is worth around US$250m and the plant is scheduled to start production in 2015. "This follow-up order is proof of our good partnership with the customer and shows that our technological solutions and leading en...
Yamama Saudi Cement to upgrade Riyadh works
Yamama Saudi Cement Company is to carrying out the rehabilitation of an existing cement plant in Riyadh. This project is in Saudi Arabia. It aims at replacing five old clinker lines to increase the production capacity to 10,000tpd. The scheme is currently under planning and no expected schedule has been disclosed. A feasibility study has already been completed.
Lafarge to reopen revamped Danao plant, Philippines
Lafarge Republic is to reopen its facility in Dano, Cebu, in the Philippines as part of the company’s drive to raise output due to increasing domestic sales. “The revamped plant in Danao City is one of several capacity expansion projects being undertaken by LRI to respond to the growing demand for building materials and the order backlog of construction projects of the leading construction ...
Iran reports strong export gains in first 11 months
Cementitious exports from Iran have risen by 35 per cent in value terms during the first 11 months of the current Iranian calendar (beginning 20 March 2012), to reach a total of US$822m. Exports totaled 10.4Mt, a rise of 27 per cent YoY, according to reports by Trend News Agency. Export destinations include some 24 countries including Iraq, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. Iran’s cement out...
Spain's February consumption down 25%
The downward trend in Spanish cement demand shows no signs of abating as cement consumption in fell 25 per cent in February, the latest data by domestic association Oficemen shows. Consumption last month fell to 863,950t some 289,000t less than in February 2012 when it was 1.152Mt. Over the first two months of 2013, accumulated demand was 1.757Mt, some 23.3 per cent less than the same pe...
Euro-area construction output falls 1.4%
Euro-area construction in January 2013 fell 1.4 per cent from the month before as gains in Germany were offset by slumps in Spain and France, according to latest figures by Eurostat. Euro-area construction output fell the most in four months in January following December’s rise of 0.3 per cent, the European Union’s statistics office in Luxembourg said yesterday. The December figure had ear...
Calls for a review of Vietnam's cement industry master plan
Vietnam’s Building Materials Association has used the Ministry of Construction (MoC) to adjust the master plan for the cement industry for the 2011-20 period and has suggested a series of measures to ease the current surplus situation. The move follows a rising inventory following increases in capacity and lower domestic demand. Current inventory is estimated to reach 25Mt by 2015 and 40Mt ...
Burundi Cement Co doubles production, eyes capacity expansion
Burundi Cement Co (BUCECO), the central African country’s sole supplier, has doubled production and profits in its first two years of operation and is considering doubling capacity, the company has said in a statement. BUCECO, which began production in January 2011 produced 70,500t of cement in 2012 compared to 34,500t the year before. Profits have risen from BIF12.9m (US$10m) in 2011 to BI...
NEXE Group completes annual overhaul, Croatia
The NEXE Group has successfully completed a EUR1.6m annual routine maintenance of its kiln at its Nasicecement works and clinker production resumed on Friday. Maintenance was also carried out on the company’s grinding plant, packing and loading installation and on its bulk loading unit, all of which will allow the optimisation of milling operations and more efficient use of electricity, NEX...
COMPAT reserves order on cement firms appeal, India
India’s Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) has reserved its order over a batch of appeals filed by cement producers contesting the INR63.07bn (US$1.1bn) penalty imposed by the Competition Commission of India for cartel practices. According to Press Trust of India, a COMPAT bench reserved its order after hearing the submissions. The CCI had found "cement manufacturers in violation of...
USA January shipments rise 5.2% YoY
Cement shipments in the USA and Puerto Rico for January were up by 5.2 per cent than the same month of last year, the latest preliminary data from the US Geological Survey (USGS) shows. January 2013’s increase occurred despite being slightly colder and significantly wetter than January 2012, highlighted analysts at Jefferies International. Morevover, shipments have now increased in 30 of th...
Vicem cement sales rise 30% in Jan-Feb
Vietnam Cement Industry Corp (Vicem) has reported a rise in overall cement and clinker sales for the first two months of the year but export volumes declined. The country’s largest cement group sold 2.88Mt of cement and clinker in the first two months of the year, up by 30 per cent from a year earlier. Some 2.85Mt of cement and clinker was sold on the domestic market, a 44.5 per cent YoY...
Gansu Qilianshan Cement sales up 29%
Gansu Qilianshan Cement Group Co Ltd sold 15.25Mt of cement and cement clinker in 2012, representing a YoY increase of 29.16 per cent, sources reported. The company currently has a cement production capacity of 21.3Mta which it aims to raise to 45Mta by the end of 2015.
Operations resume at Awarpur plant, India
Operations have resumed at UltraTech’s Awarpur cement plant in the state of Maharashtra following a temporary closure due to strike action. The 3.6Mta has been shut since 14 March 2013 due to worker’s unrest but were restarted yesterday morning. UltraTech said in a filing to the stock exchanges that "operations at the aforesaid unit [Awarpur Cement Works] have since resumed from March 14, ...
Argentine February shipments decline
Argentine cement plants shipped 839,223t, including exports, representing a decline of 7.1 per cent on February last year, according to the latest data published by association AFCP. On a month-on-month (MoM) basis, the February figure was 8.1 per cent less than the amount shipped in January. However, domestic sales, including imports reached 809,280t, an increase of six per cent YoY but a...
Holcim and Heidelberg to operate Cement Australia as a joint venture
Holcim Ltd said Thursday it plans to sell a 25 per cent stake in Cement Australia to HeidelbergCement and operate the company as an equally-controlled joint venture between the two cement majors. Holcim and HeidelbergCement should be equally represented on the board and the chairmanship should rotate, the Swiss firm noted, adding that the contract on the transaction is still to be signed. Ho...