Cement News tagged: International
Sanghi Industries to inaugurate new mill, India
Sanghi Industries has installed a new 1.2Mta grinding mill at its plant located in Sanghipuram, Kutch district, taking total capacity to 4.1Mta. The company now proposes to commence work on a 15MW Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system at the main part of the plant. Chief Minister of Gujarat, Anandiben Patel, will inaugurate the grinding facility and lay the foundation stone for the WHR plant a...
Pioneer Cement and CITIC sign agreement for WHR plant, Pakistan
Pioneer Cement has signed an agreement with CITIC Heavy Industries, China, to purchase a waste heat recovery (WHR) plant with a power generation capacity of 12MW. According to the company notice sent to the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) on Wednesday, the total estimated cost of the plant is PKR1.5bn (US$14.7m). Pioneer Cement's 2.03Mta plant is located at Chenki, District Khusshab, in the hea...
Vietnam: Hoang Trung Hai permitted to continue importing fly ash
Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister, Hoang Trung Hai, has agreed to allow Nghi Son Cement Corp to continue the pilot import of fly ash as material for its cement production. The deputy PM earlier agreed to allow Nghi Son Cement Corp to import a volume not exceeding 200,000tpa of fly ash in the 2015-2016 period. However, he also requested the company develop a plan to use domestic fly ash from 20...
Birla Corp Ltd awaiting mining clearance ahead of joint venture project
Birla Corporation Ltd (BCL) said on Thursday said it is awaiting mining clearances from the Assam Mineral Development Corp (AMDC) to set up a joint venture in the state. The cement maker has plans to set up a 1Mta plant in Umrangso in Dima Hasao district in Assam. "The joint venture between BCL and AMDC is yet to be formed. We are waiting for limestone mining block allocation to AMDC before ...
Successful start-up for Indonesia Baturaja EPC project
Semen Baturaja's 5000tpd clinker line, contracted to Sinoma-TCDRI, was successfully started up on 28 May 2015. The project is located in the Baturaja area of Sumatra, adjacent to the existing production line. On 2 April 2015, Sinoma-TCDRI signed another EPC contract for another 5000tpd clinker production line for Semen Baturaja Persero TBK in the Indonesian capital Jakarta. At present, the ...
CCNN earmarks NGN48bn for expansion project
The Cement Company of Northern Nigeria (CCCN), on Tuesday said it would invest NGN48bn (US$240m) into the ongoing modernisation of its facilities to double its production capacity. Alf Karlsen, managing director of CCNN, told Business Day (Nigeria) that when completed, the company would have the capacity to produce 1.5Mta. Mr Karlsen also disclosed that the firm had completed the process ac...
India’s core sector growth rises to 4.4 per cent in May
Growth in India’s eight core sectors, including the cement industry, increased to 4.4 per cent in May 2015 versus a decline of 0.4 per cent in April. There growth level achieved in May is a six-month high. Cement output grew 2.6 per cent against a fall of 2.4 per cent in April, according to the data released by the Commerce and Industry Ministry. Growth was also seen in six other sectors: co...
Saudi clinker production declines
Clinker output in Saudi declined by 12 per cent YoY in May 2015 in producers deliberately attempt to shore up cement prices, claims a report by NCB Capital. Stockpiles had built up partly as a result of decrees by the late King Abdullah to ensure the country did not run out of supplies. In April 2013, the king also set aside US$800m for the import of volumes and construction of kilns to boost...
Senegal: domestic market contracts, exports jump
Senegalese cement producers increased their output by 4.4 per cent in the first four months of 2015 when compared with the same period of 2014, according to the country’s planning and economic study department. Production went up from 1,752,000t to 1,829,400t. Domestic sales fell 6.4 per cent from 1,123,000t in 4M14 to 1,051,500t in January-April 2014. However, exports jumped 22.1 per cent f...
Vietnam expected first-half output up 10.5%
Vietnam is estimated to have produced 32.1Mt of cement in the first half of this year, up 10.5 per cent from a year ago, the government-run General Statistics Office said. In June alone, production totalled 6Mt, up 26.8 per cent YoY. In the first five months, Vietnam has churned out 26.1Mt of cement, compared to the earlier estimated 26.6Mt, according to the office’s revised figure. Vietnam...
JSW Cement plans two new grinding plants, India
JSW Cement plans to start two greenfield grinding units each in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, India, with potential locations currently being identified. Anil Kumar Pillai, JSW Cement Director and CEO, told the Deccan Herald that each project will involve an investment of between INR350-400 crore. Funds will be raised via internal accrual and loans from banks. For the Tamil Nadu plant, the ...
Ash Grove extends use of on-site Louisville building to Nebraska Wildlife Rehab, Inc
Ash Grove Cement has signed an agreement extending the use of an on-site building at its Louisville cement plant, USA, to Nebraska Wildlife Rehab, Inc (NWRI). The agreement gives the rescue centre space at US$10 per year for the wildlife they receive. John Dale, plant manager for Ash Grove Cement Louisville and Laura Stastny, executive director of NWRI sign an agreement extendin...
Malawi rolls out distribution of subsidised materials under housing programme
The Malawi government has started to roll out the the distribution of materials under its Decent and Affordable Housing (Cement and Malata) Subsidy Programme (DAHSP). Speaking during the hand-over ceremony of the materials last week at Malembo School in the area of Traditional Authority (TA) Khongoni, Charles Makanga, Lilongwe District Commissioner, said: "We need decent houses with cement ...
Colombia: market expands 2.7% in May 2015
Cement dispatches in Colombia increased 2.7 per cent YoY to 1.062Mt, according to the country’s statistics office, DANE. The increase is primarily the result of an 8.7 per cent rise in the construction and contractors segment, which expanded by 8.7 per cent. The largest increases, on a departmental basis, were noted in Nariño (+69.2 per cent), Bolivar (+16.3 per cent), Magdalena (+19.1 per ...
Oman: OCC prolonged kiln shut down to impact 2Q performance
Oman Cement Co (OCC) said that the extended kiln closure of a 4000tpd line as part of planned maintenance will have an impact on it second-quarter performance. CEO, Jamal al Hooti, told Muscat Securities Market that the closure is resulting in lower production and sales which is likely to impact the performance of the company during the current quarter.
McInnis Cement and ACF - St Elzear sign biomass agreement
McInnis Cement and the Forestry Cooperative Association- St Elzear (ACF- St Elzear ) have signed a cooperative agreement to study the feasibility of using forest biomass as an auxiliary fuel for the cement plant under construction in Port-Daniel - Gascons . "We are pleased to establish this collaboration with the region's forest industry, in line with our GHG reduction plan," said Chr...