Cement News tagged: International
Eurocement inks US$500m Chinese supply deal
Russian cement major Eurocement Group has signed a package of contracts with Chinese companies for equipment supply, engineering, installation supervision and employee training services, totalling over US$500m. The contracts were signed with units of China’s Sinoma, CNBM, and Sinomach. “The contracts signed 20 May 2014 imply a delivery of a complete set of equipment necessary for the construc...
Holcim sees better performance in Morocco
Holcim Morocco improved its business results in 2013 despite the difficult economic context. By lowering its production costs and optimising its support functions, the company achieved a cost saving of MAD100m (US$12.23m), despite a five per cent decline in operating income compared to 2012. The company succeeded in optimising its clinker factor, lowering power consumption and increased ther...
Peru records stable 4M14 cement deliveries
Peru’s domestic cement dispatches reached 3,279,640t between January and April 2014, edging up 0.1 per cent YoY, according to the country’s cement association, Asocem. Cement output followed a similar trend, totalling 3,344,562t over the period with producers shipping 3,349,510t – including exports – in the first four months of the year, representing a 0.13 per cent increase YoY. Accordi...
Vietnam exports rise 41% YoY
Vietnam exported 8.38Mt of cement and clinker worth US$355m in the first four months of this year, up 41 and 43 per cent in terms of volume and value, respectively, the General Department of Vietnam Customs said. The total included 6.2Mt of clinker and 2.2Mt of cement, the department said on its website Tuesday. In April, the country’s cement and clinker exports fell 4.4 and 5.3 per cent,...
Hope Construction Materials launches Apprenticeship Academy
Britain’s leading independent construction materials company, Hope Construction Materials is on the lookout for new talent to join its GBP300m (EUR369m) business in the Derbyshire and Yorkshire area of the UK. The company has launched an Apprenticeship Academy which is looking to appoint four new apprentices this year at its quarries at Dowlow near Buxton and Holme Hall near Rotherham, and i...
Orient inks project finance for greenfield plant
Khaitan & Co has advised Orient Cement on loan facilities worth US$200m from a syndicate of lenders led by State Bank of India. The loan is to finance the development of a 3Mta greenfield integrated cement plant along with a 45MW captive power plant at Gulbarga, Karnataka. Partner Shishir Mehta and associate partner Kumar Saurabh Singh acted as legal advisers to Orient Cement.
6th Brazilian Cement Congress underway
The long-awaited 6th Brazilian Cement Conference (CBC) officially opened its doors on Monday, 19 May 2014 to over 300 industry professionals in the vibrant city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Welcoming senior industry specialists from the domestic cement sector and beyond, Renato Jose Giusti of the Associação Brasiliera De Cimento Portland (ABCP), expressed the importance of the cement industry in Br...
Lafarge inaugurates 2Mta Russian plant
Lafarge has officially opened its 2Mta Kaluga cement plant in Russia with a ceremony attended by First Deputy Prime Minister, Igor Shuvalov. Located in Ferzikovo village, it is the first cement production facility in this region and is strategically located thanks to its proximity to Moscow. This plant will complement Lafarge’s presence in Russia where the group has been present for nearly 20...
Moctezuma to double Apazapan capacity
Cementos Moctezuma announced investments of US$200m to double capacity of its Apazapan works in Veracruz, Mexico. The Apazapan plant came on-stream at the end of 2010 with a capacity of 1.3Mta. The expansion programme will see Mexico’s fourth-largest producer increase capacity at the plant by the same amount. Moctezuma, owned by Buzzi Unicem and Cementos Molins, operates three plants in tota...
Venezuela: Cemento Andino dispatches 1.1m bags of cement in April
Venezuela’s Cemento Andino dispatched 1,138,326 bags of cement in April. Cemento Andino operates a cement works in Las Llanadas, Candelaria in Trujillo state and distributes its product through 45 community outlets. In addition, the company has a direct distribution centre in Las Llanadas, four communal bulk silos and three concrete plants in Barinas, Portuguesa and Trujillo.
Iran monthly production update
Iran produced 4.501Mt of cement in the first calendar month of the current Iranian calendar year (21 March 2014 - 20 April 2015), according to its Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade reported that the country. Over 70 per cent of the total (some 3.234Mt) was supplied to the domestic market during the month, Iran's IRNA News Agency reported. Some 6.291Mt of clinker was also produced in ...
Khutul expansion project inaugurated, Mongolia
Khutul Cement and Lime's newly-expanded cement plant has been officially inaugurated in the presence of Norovyn Altankhuyag, Prime Minister of Mongolia. Capacity of the cement works, situated in Khutul soum of Selenge Province, has been expanded four-fold. Following recent modernisation work, the plant now has the capacity to produce 3000tpd of cement, or 1Mta. Basement LLC won the tender bi...
Plans for new Kenyan plant in the pipeline
Construction materials supplier Karsan Ramji & Sons plan to set up a new cement production facility in Kenya. The KES426m (US$4.9m) plant is expected to produce an average of 700tpd for sale both locally and within the regional market, according to The East African. Karsan’s factory will be located in Athi River near other established cement producers ARM Cement Ltd, Savanna Cement Ltd, East ...
Brazilian monthly cement sales rise 4.9% YoY
Brazilian cement sales in April 2014 climbed by 4.9 per cent YoY to 5.9Mt, preliminary data and market estimates gathered by Sindicato Nacional da Industria do Cimento (SNIC) reveal. During January - April 2014, sales totalled 22.8Mt, a 3.3 per cent rise compared to the first four months of last year. Accumulated cement sales for the 12 months between May 2013 - April 2014 reached 70.7Mt, ex...
Apo energy deal gets government approval
The ancillary services procurement agreement (ASPA) between the National Grid Corp of the Philippines (NGCP) and Apo Cement Corp (ACC) has been approved by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC). The agreement states that ACC will provide ancillary services from its Apo Cement power plant with the capacity of 69MW. It may only nominate the available capacity of the said plant for the ancilla...
New national standard approved in Nigeria
Olusegun Aganga, Minister of Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, has given final approval for a new national cement standard, which will be mandatory for both domestically produced cement and imports. The new standard will be strictly enforced throughout the country following a short grace period. All cement produced domestically or imported into the country that m...