Cement News tagged: International
US eight-month shipment update
Portland and blended cement shipments in the US and Puerto Rico in the first eight months of this year reached 59.12Mt, preliminary data from the US Geological Survey shows. Of the total shipments, domestic dispatches accounted for 53.21Mt and imports represented 5.9Mt, the figures reveal. August 2015 shipments reached 9.080Mt, comprising 8.180Mt of domestic dispatches and 900,191t of impor...
Indonesia September sales ahead
Indonesia cement sales rose by 2.8 per cent in September, latest data from the Indonesia Cement Association (ASI) shows. Sales rose to 5.79Mt last month, from 5.63Mt a year earlier. Cement sales had picked up pace in August, following contraction over several months of the year, due to delays in government infrastructure construction. "Cement sales for infrastructure have picked up, n...
Shareholders of China Shanshui Cement Group vote to keep chairman
Shareholders of China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd have voted to keep Chairman Zhang Bin at a meeting in Hong Kong Tuesday, Bloomberg reports. The Shandong-based group held an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) during which a proposal from its largest shareholder – peer Tianrui International Holding Co – to get rid of Zhang was rejected after receiving a 99.9 per cent no vote, according to stat...
Southern Province Cement posts 29% drop in 9M15 net earnings
Saudi producer Southern Province Cement Co posted net earnings of SAR202m (US$53.9m) for the third quarter of 2015, down 29 per cent compared with SAR285m a year earlier. Net earnings for the nine-month period ended 30 September also decreased by 7.6 per cent YoY from SAR800m to SAR739m.
Ho Chi Minh City rejects Ha Tien grinding plans
The Ho Chi Minh City government has rejected Ha Tien 1 Cement JS's plans to relocate its Thu Duc cement grinding plant to District 9 and scale up the capacity of its Phu Huu grinding unit. A document sent to Ho Chi Minh City Department of Natural Resources and Environment and related agencies last week, Ho Chi Minh City Vice Chairman Tat Thanh Cang confirmed the decision. The Thu Duc cement...
Star Ferro and Cement subsidiary enters into agreement with West Bengal grinding unit
Star Ferro and Cement Ltd on Tuesday said that its subsidiary has inked a production pact with another grinding unit in West Bengal, India. In a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange, Star Ferro and Cement saidL “A company's subsidiary has entered into production arrangement with another grinding unit in West Bengal.” The company manufactures and markets cement and clinker in India. It offers ...
UK: One hundred days of helping from Hope
This week, Hope Construction Materials’ employees completed 100 days of voluntary work, as part of the organisation’s “Hope for Others” initiative. Hope’s employees offering a helping hand as part of the Hope for Others initiative The scheme, launched by the firm in 2014, sees Hope employees choosing to partake in charity work close to their heart, with the organisation offeri...
Sika expands footprint in Africa
Sika is opening its first concrete admixture and mortar production facilities in Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire and has established new subsidiaries in Ethiopia and Tanzania to participate in the growing markets in the Sub-Saharan region. The move expands Sika's presence on the African continent to 16 countries. Sika established the subsidiary in Nigeria and Ivory Coast in 2014 and is now in Lag...
Mbeya Cement launches new product, Tanzania
Mbeya Cement, part of the LafargeHolcim group, has introduced higher-strength cement named Tembo Supaset 42.5 cement. Catherine Langreney, CEO of Lafarge Tanzania, said the product specifically addresses the needs for block making, concrete mix, mega structures and high visibility infrastructure projects--bridges, roads and stadiums. "This brand is the result of careful [almost one year] res...
Paraguay Minister of Industry: INC needs to import cement urgently
Gustavo Leite, Paraguay’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, said yesterday that there exists an alternative scenario that would see the country’s main cement producer, Industria Nacional de Cemento (INC) “urgently” become a cement importer. While the cement maker is planning to expand its production to meet national demand, Mr Leite said it will take around 3-4 years to build a new cement plant...
USA: Ecocem plans face local opposition
Irish manufacturer Ecocem’s plans for a EUR45m (US$50m) grinding works in California have met with opposition from locals concerned about the environmental impact of the plant. Ecocem has filed an application with the City of Vallejo to repurpose a former flour milling site to a US$30m grinding plant which would make it the group’s first venture in the US. Under subsidiary Orcem California, ...
Mozambique: new plant to start up this month
Mozambique's newest market entrant, Cimentos da Beira, is due to start up its 0.8Mta grinding plant is in October, according to the company's managing director, Wouter Trollip. The new facility will enter service after the substation has been tested, according to Mr Trollip. He further said the plant already has over 40,000t of clinker in stock to start cement production as soon as the...
Lucky considers increasing northern exposure
Lucky Cement plans to build a new cement plant in the north region of the country to meet growing demand, a senior company official said on Friday. "Yes, we have planned to set up a plant in the north [of the country], News International quoted the company's CEO Muhammad Ali Tabba, as saying. "Our next board of directors meeting is scheduled at end of October and we would take up the plan the...
Vicem Hoang Mai Cement plans new plant, Vietnam
Vicem Hoang Mai Cement JSC has announced plans to build a cement factory at an estimated cost of VND10.8trn (US$480m) in the central Vietnam province of Nghe An. The Hoang Mai Cement 2 factory will be constructed in the 2016-20 period in two phases, providing more than 2Mta of cement after the completion of each phase. The plant will serve the central region as well as export markets.
Dominican Republic: Cemex introduces social and business programme
Cemex has introduced its inclusive social and business programme portfolio in the Dominican Republic in order to improve access to housing, employment, construction and assisted self-construction activities, among other initiatives. Global inclusive business manager Dulce Alejandre Mora stated that Cemex's Patrimonio Hoy scheme provides affordable and comprehensive solutions for the constru...
Pakistan: August export volumes and revenue down YoY
Pakistan exported 558,049t of cement on revenues of US$32.08m in August 2015, down 42.88 and 44.36 per cent in terms of volume and revenue on a YoY basis, according to the country's Bureau of of Statistics. Compared to July 2014, volumes rose by 18.88 per cent and revenues increased by 16.54 per cent. Exports over the first two months of the current fiscal (beginning in July 2015) to Afgh...