Cement News tagged: International
Prime Cement plans new Rwandan plant
Cement industry newcomer, Prime Cement, plans to construct a US$65m plant in Musanze District, Northern Province, Rwanda. The company has reportedly signed an equipment supply deal with FLSmidth, according to an article by The New Times (Rwanda). Gisele Bayigamba, general manager Milbridge Holding, the consortium that owns Prime Cement, said construction of the 0.7Mta facility will begin ...
Brazil's monthly sales down 15.3% YoY
Brazilian cement sales totalled 3.9Mt in February, down 15.3 per cent YoY, according to the latest market data published by local cement association, SNIC. Over the first two months of this year, sales declined by nine per cent YoY. In the 12 months to the end of February 2017, cumulative sales totalled 56.4Mt, 11 per cent lower than the comparative period of the previous year. Cement pric...
Bolivia: Potosí groundworks to start in two months
The construction of the new cement works in Potosí, Bolivia, is moving ahead as the movement of land at the site is scheduled to start in two months’ time, according to Williams Cervantes Beltrán, the town’s mayor. The new plant represents a total investment of US$306m, including the mobilisation and exploitation of the limestone deposits and operating expenses. The construction of the plan...
DR Congo: cement price in Boma up 53%
The price of a bag of 50kg of grey cement in Boma, Democratic Republic of Congo, has jumped from CDF7500 (US$5.51) in February to CDF11,500 at the start of April. The price increase has led several construction sites in the port city suspending work. The hike has been attributed to the deterioration of the national currency compared to the US dollar.
New international standard in Russia
Russia has introduced Interstate standard GOST 31108-2016 “Cements Technical Specification,” as a national standard of the Russian Federation (RF), effective 1 March 2017. The technical characteristics requirements of the new standard are broadly similar to the EU’s EN 197-1: 2011 standard, except that GOST has 23 sub-types compared to the EN 197’s 39 sub-types. The World Cement Association ...
Pakistan: Lucky Cement wins HSE Award 2017
Lucky Cement Ltd has won a Health, Safety and Environment award in the category of “The Responsibility for Health and Safety,” at the 2017 International Environment, Health & Safety Awards Gala, held in Karachi, Pakistan. Speaking of the occasion, Amin Ganny, chief operating officer of Lucky Cement: “Lucky Cement is committed to cultivating an environment that ensures HSE is embedded at its...
Coal price set to fall over the next two years
Newcastle coal prices hit a five-year high in November, climbing from US$49/t at the start of 2016 to US$115/t in November, but fell quickly to their current level of US$80/t. The main driver in these fluctuations is China’s supply management policy rather than the new administration in the US. The Chinese government has cut coal production to boost prices and safeguard coal mining jobs. Howev...
Indian cement producers prefer imported petcoke
Cement producers in India continue to prefer better-quality imported petcoke at US$92/t, despite its price being double that of Indian coal, according to the Business Standard. Petcoke prices rose to US$95.75/t at the end of December and fell to US$80.50/t in early February before rising to US$92 at the end of March, S&P Global Platts was quoted. Recent auctions by Coal India yielded di...
Colombian cement dispatches slip 3.6% in Feb17
Colombia's cement market in February 2017 contracted 3.6 per cent to 1.008Mt when compared with February 2016, according to DANE, the country's statistics office. Domestic cement plants produced 1.048Mt in the second month of the year, representing a 2.6 per cent decline YoY. In January-February 2017, cement sales reached 1.921Mt and were down 3.2 per cent when compared with January-Febru...
Saudi Arabia: sales volume falls 20% in 2M17
Cement sales in Saudi Arabia remain weak and see a further downward revision in sector earnings for 2017. In the first two months of 2017, sales volume fell 20.4 per cent on an annual basis, while in 2016, cement dispatches declined 10 per cent YoY (54.8Mt), according to a report by Al Rajhi Capital. "In this context, we show the impact on companies based on our expectations of demand i...
Paris council to stop LafargeHolcim orders over Trump wall supply offer
The city of Paris has criticised LafargeHolcim for its willingness to supply material for the wall that US President Donald Trump plans to build along the Mexican border. The French capital’s governing council voted on Tuesday to stop working with the world’s biggest cement maker for as long as the company won’t respect the city’s ethical standards, a spokeswoman said by phone on Wednesday. ...
Zimbabwe: President Mugabe opens PPC cement grinding plant in Harare
PPC's US$85m cement 0.7Mta grinding plant at Msasa, Harare, has been officially opened by President Robert Mugabe. The plant is PPC’s third production site in the country. The facility features a cement ball mill with dynamic separator and road and rail off-loading facilities. This is in positioning PPC to meet local demand, as well as boost the country’s ability to export to the region. ...
Cameroon: LafargeHolcim launches construction of EUR42.6m cement plant
LafargeHolcim Maroc Afrique has launched construction of a new 0.5Mta plant in the Cameroonian locality of Nomayos, near Yaoundé. The new project required a total investment of EUR42.6m (US$45.7m). The plant project has been launched via Cimencam, LafargeHolcim Maroc Afrique’s local branch, and is expected to increase Cimencam’s annual production to 2Mta. With the addition of the new pla...
Malaysia: former Tasek Cement director finds contentment in food
Datuk David Tan Sek Yin, former executive director of Tasek Corporation Bhd (1986-2004), now spends his days over a hot stove making Ipoh kai si hor fun (shredded chicken kuey teow), reports the Star online. The 60-year-old can be seen going about Ipoh, in Malaysia, his minivan delivering containers of special broth to his Little Katong stalls at Canning Garden, Gourmet Square hawker centre. ...
Cemex sees Philippine infrastructure overhaul driving demand
Philippine’s President Rodrigo Duterte’s infrastructure overhaul is expected to drive demand for cement and create a “multiplier effect” in the construction sector, Cemex says, according to a report by ABS–CBN News. Paul Arcenas, vice president investor relations, Cemex Holdings, said the private sector will match spending by government on more roads, bridges, railways and airports. “We cont...
Tanzania: Moshi plant ordered to halt operations on pollution concerns
Moshi cement factory has been ordered to halt operations over environmental pollution concerns, with the Tanzanian government demanding the implementation of the National Environment Management Council’s (NEMC’s) recommendations. January Makamba, minister of state in the Vice President’s office, Union and Environment, ordered the immediate closure of the factory, stating: "This factory shoul...