Cement News tagged: International
Indonesian sales seen reaching 16% in 1H12
Indonesian cement consumption is expected to rise by double-digits in the first half of this year, driven by a residential housing boom and the realisation of infrastructure projects. Widodo Santoso, chairman of the Indonesian Cement Association (ASI), told reporters on the sidelines of the Cemtech Asia 2012 Conference & Exhibition in Jakarta, Indonesia that cement sales during January to J...
India Cements receives approval for future expansion
India Cements has received approval from the environment ministry as it gathers the necessary approvals for the possible expansion of its existing plants. The Times of India reports that the company sought the Terms of Reference (TOR) approval to expand capacity at its Dalavoi and Sankari cement works in Andhra Pradesh. India Cements has noted, however, that this is only an initial step ...
Work restarts at Dangote’s Douala works, Cameroon
Construction of Dangote Cement’s plant in Cameroon has restarted after a land dispute is resolved, Reuters reports. Work on the 1.5Mta cement plant, situated in Douala, began last September and was scheduled to last 15 months. However, construction was halted earlier this year after the ethnic Sawa people filed an injunction against the project, complaining it violated their sacred site on ...
Consumer authority raids warehouse on repacked cement, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) of Sri Lanka has raided a warehouse of state-run Cement Corporation and seized thousands of expired cement bags that are allegedly being repacked. The CCA conducted the raid following a tip-off that expired cement stocks imported from Pakistan were being repacked after the expiry dates have lapsed, local press report. The authorities have confis...
Peruvian domestic shipments rise 14.2%
Cement shipments in the Peruvian market totalled 3.64Mt between January and May 2012, a 14.02 per cent increase over the figure recorded in the same period in 2011, according to data from local Cement Producers’ Association (Asocem). During the five month period cement production was 3.71Mt representing a YoY increase of 12.75 per cent. Cement exports, meanwhile, reached 58,060t, a YoY i...
UK construction output down, recession risk
The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published construction figures for April 2012 showing a fall of 8.5% compared with April 2011. Commenting on the figures, Noble Francis, Economics Director at the Construction Products Association said: ‘With ONS reporting that both manufacturing and construction sectors fell in April, prospects for the UK economy escaping recession in Q2 ar...
Karnataka Cabinet approves land for cement plant
The Karnataka cabinet has cleared the proposal of JK Cements to acquire additional land for setting up a cement plant. Economic Research of India states that the company will acquire 278 acre for their own industrial use at Mudepura in Bagalkot district where it is already investing in a cement plant. Earlier, the state high level clearance committee had also cleared JK Cement's proposal ...
Borcim receives positive response to EIA, Turkey
The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for a proposed cement plant by Borcim Cement Manufacturing and Trading has received approval by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanism. The new works, to be situated in the Emet district of Kutahya, will produce OPC, white and Boron Activated Belite (BAB) cement. The Directorate of Environment, Planning said in a written statement: '"Pursuant t...
New Nigerian plant to begin production soon
Cement production at the Igumale Cement Factory in Nigeria is to commence this month, according to local press reports. The 600,000tpa cement factory situated in Benue State, is a joint venture between the state government and a Chinese partner Zhengzhou Cangxi and Commerce Development Company Ltd. The project, was initiated in 2001, is to be completed in “due course” according to Commis...
Indonesia May cement sales rise 15.6%
Indonesia's cement sales rose 15.6 per cent in May from a year ago, data from PT Semen Gresik Tbk showed on Thursday. Sales by volume in May rose 12.8 per cent month on month to 4.72Mt, according to the data. Most sales were on Java and Sumatra islands. Sales by volume in the eastern islands of Moluccas and Papua increased 40 per cent for the second consecutive month. ...
Brazil Jan-May sales rise 11.6%
Latest data on the Brazilian cement market shows that for the first five months of the current year, domestic sales were 27.6Mt, a rise of 11.6 per cent YoY. For the 12 rolling months between June 2011 and May 2012, accumulated sales reached 66.8Mt. This represents an increase of 9.7 per cent on the same period the year before (June 2010-May 2011).
VSP plans slag-based cement plant, India
Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) is planning a slag-based steel plant with a plan outlay of about INR2000 crore, Business Standard of India reports. VSP is generates over 800,000t of slag every year as a by-product, of which some 1000 tonnes are being exported. “To fully utilise the slag and fly-ash, the management is now seriously looking at starting a slag-based cement plant,” NS Rao, direct...
UAE cement prices drop 3.4% in May
The average prices of several building materials groups have undergone changes during May 2012, compared with April 2012, a monthly report by the Statistics Centre Abu Dhabi (SCAD) revealed. The average prices of cement dropped by 3.4 per cent, due mainly to decreases in the price of Portland cement per tonne by 11.3 per cent and SRC by 5.9 per cent. The next largest fall was in the averag...
Italcementi reorganises Italian cement operations
Italian cement producer Italcementi SpA announced it is to sell one of its domestic cement plants and close two other factories to reorganise its local production base on the back of lower demand. Italy's leading cement producer said it would sell its Pontassieve factory to local cement company Colacem and will shut down two mid-sized cement-making plants by the third quarter of 2012 in or...
India’s May output rises 13.5 per cent
India's cement production in May rose 13.5% on year to 16.2Mt, the Cement Manufacturers' Association said today. Cement output in May was 1.1% higher than 16.01Mt produced in the previous month. Cement despatches in May rose 14.5% YoY to 16.26Mt, the association said. Cement production during Apr-May, the first two months of 2012-13, rose 11.6% to 32.21Mt. India's cemen...
China prices continue to fall
The average price of cement across China last week fell 0.83 percent week-on-week to CNY336.25/t, reports Shanghai Securities News. According to the report, the price of cement has been falling for several weeks since the end of April. Price adjustments of CNY10-50/t mainly occurred in Beijing, Hebei and Anhui.