Cement News tagged: International
Bolivia’s Fancesa announces 0.66Mta capacity expansion by 2016
Fancesa celebrated its 54th anniversary by announcing plans for a new factory, enabling the Bolivian cement makers to produce an additional 2000tpd of clinker, equivalent to 0.86Mta of cement. The US$220m plant would enter service by 2016. Meanwhile, from March onwards, Fancesa will be producing an extra 1000tpd following the completion of a new clinker line at its Sucre works which will ...
Udayapur Cement production levels increased
Udayapur Cement, the largest cement producer in Nepal has resumed higher levels of production which had recently been scaled back because of technical difficulties. The company’s cement plant has a capacity of 800tpd but due problems with equipment the plant had only been producing 450tpd. However, general manager of the plant Dr Surendra Prasad, has since told The Himalyan newspaper that th...
Antigua cement prices set to rise
Caricement Antigua Ltd is considering a slight price increase on the back of rising production costs, in a move that follows two other hikes announced in the Caribbean this year. Antonio Garrido who heads the company’s Crabbs operations, told local press: “We are talking about between 50 to 75 cents per bag. He said the increase would be merely “symbolic” taking into account the increased c...
CIMAF builds cement plant in Burkina Faso
Morocco’s Ciments d’Afrique (CIMAF) is building a cement works in the industrial zone of Kossodo, Burkina Faso. On Saturday, 19 January 2013 the first stone was laid in the presence of the country’s prime minister Luc Adolphe Tiao, members of the government and Anas Selfrioui, CIMAF president. The new 0.5Mta cement production facility represents an investment of XOF20bn (US$41m) and resu...
Ciments Kercim to go into production in spring 2013, France
Ciments Kercim’s clinker grinding unit in Montoir-de-Bretagne (Loire-Atlantique) is scheduled to enter service in spring. Located in the bulk terminal port of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, the facility is ready to receive its first shipment of 15,000t of Turkish clinker as a process test. Once the trial period has ended and certifications are received, it is expected to start normal operations in M...
Thatta’s Cement announces modernisation project, Pakistan
Pakistan cement producer Thatta Cement Company’s announced that its board of directors has approved a plan to improve production efficiency at its cement works through a ‘Balancing Modernisation and Rehabilitation’ (BMR) programme. The BMR project will take about 18-24 months to execute from the date of equipment order, CemNet News has learnt. Thatta’s cement works is located 115km north...
Dangote calls for limestone allocation to invest in Ghana
Dangote Cement has said it is yet to receive a limestone allocation from the government of Ghana to invest in local production. The Nigerian cement major is instead having to bag cement produced in Nigeria for distribution on the Ghanaian market. “If we get limestone today, within 24 months we will be producing,” Alhaji Tajudeen Sijuade, Vice Chairman of Dangote Cement Ghana Limited, told t...
Spanish demand sees largest drop for over 70 years
Cement consumption in Spain has seen its full-year figures for 2012 fall even further than the pessimistic forecasts predicted by Oficemen in December. Last year, cement demand contracted 34 per cent YoY to 13.5Mt, representing the largest decline in the Spanish cement market’s history for several decades. Only in 1936 a larger drop was found. Full-year output figures registered a fall of jus...
Algeria’s Oggaz plant hits production record
The Lafarge-owned Oggaz cement plant, in Mascara, Algeria, achieved a new production and sales record for grey cement in 2012. Meanwhile, increased output of white cement reduced imports of the product by nearly one-third. In 2012, around 3.1Mt of grey cement left the factory gates, according to the company. Lafarge Algeria CEO, Luc Callebat, said: “The Oggaz plant is only five years o...
Dalmia Cement to raise northeastern capacity, India
Dalmia Cement plans to invest INR18bn (US$334m) over the next two years to lift capacity to 21Mta through a new greenfield plant and expanding its facilities in northeast India. Puneet Yadu Dalmia, managing director of Dalmia Cement, told local press that the company’s total capacity will increase to 21Mta at the end of the process from the current 17Mta. It will invest INR13bn in its upcomi...
Latin America market movements
Three major Latin American countries, Brazil, Peru and Argentina, released full-year consumption figures for 2012 this week with two showing YoY gains while demand in the third faltered. Brazil With Brazil's economy continuing its lull, construction activity is expected to have grown by five per cent last year, thus underperforming its significant potential. Fundamentally, the opportunit...
Indonesia sales forecast to see double-digit growth hat-trick
Indonesian cement consumption is expected to continue its strong growth trajectory and rise by double-digits for the third year in a row, according to estimates by local analysts. “We’ve seen two years of two digit growth. This year, the cement market remains positive because demand remains strong, particularly in ongoing infrastructure projects,” said Gifar Indra Sakti, an analyst with PT ...
PCA revises 2013 consumption outlook upwards
According to the latest forecast from the Portland Cement Association (PCA), there will be an 8.1 per cent growth in cement consumption in 2013, significantly higher than the tepid growth projected in its fall 2012 report. The upward revisions reflect adjustments made in light of the recent fiscal cliff accord, recognition of stronger economic momentum, and markedly more optimistic assess...
ABG set to bring new cement ventures on-stream, India
The ABG Group of India is set to start production from its new cement ventures this quarter. Under ABG Cement Ltd, the company is constructing a 3Mta clinker unit in the village of Thumdi in Kutch and a 5.8Mta grinding works in the village of Mora, Surat, Gujarat state. The clinker plant is expected to go on-stream in February while the grinding unit may commence operations in the followin...
Foundation stone laid for CIMERWA expansion, Rwanda
The foundation stone for the expansion of CIMERWA cement factory in Rwanda was laid yesterday by the president of the African nation Paul Kagame. The expansion project will lift capacity of Rwanda’s sole cement producer from 100,000tpa to 600,000tpa and has been made possible following PPC’s acquisition of a controlling stake in CIMERWA last December. Speaking to reporters after the cere...
Euro area construction output down 0.4 per cent in November
Construction output in the 17-nation euro area decreased 0.4 per cent in November according to first estimates released by Eurostat. In Germany, Europe’s largest economy, November construction advanced one per cent from a month earlier, while Spain gained 1.2 per cent, according to today’s report. However, these gains were offset by falls in France and Italy, where output dropped 0.5 per cen...