Cement News tagged: International
PT Semen Indonesia to further boost capacity
PT Semen Indonesia plans to spend up to IDR6trn (US$516.4m) on capital expenditure in 2014, up from this year's IDR3trn, which will be used to build a greenfield cement factory. This will boost production capacity and finance working capital, said corporate secretary Agung Wiharto. Reuters reports that the company will develop plants in Central Java and West Sumatra, and a cement packaging...
Cementos Argos continues to thrive on Panama Canal project
Cementos Argos has found the Panama Canal expansion project to be a lucrative venture. The Colombian cement and concrete producer has been supplying materials for the construction of major infrastructure on the canal and connect schemes since 2009. Argos’ Panamanian subsidiary earns 30 per cent of its revenues from the expansion at present with the canal offering sales of 700,000Mta of ceme...
Oman: Port of Salalah terminal expansion to help Raysut Cement
Archirodon Construction is building a new general cargo terminal (GCT) at Oman's Port of Salalah, leading to a number of major investors expressing interest in shipping dry and liquid bulk commodities from the new facility. The project, which also includes a liquid jetty at the port, is expected to be completed in 1H14. At present, the port continues to handle significant volumes for local ...
ETAP keeps El Salvador plant running
Holcim's Cement plant in El Salvador continues to deliver impressive operating results, following the implementation of the ETAP Real-Time Intelligent Load Shedding (ILS) system. In the year prior to the deployment of ETAP ILS, the facility experienced 20 power outages. However, over the course of the two-year commissioning and tuning period for the ILS installation, Holcim experienced just o...
UGTA strike impacts Pakistan cement exports, raw material supplies
An indefinite strike by Pakistan’s Goods Transporters Alliance (UGTA), now in its 10th day, is impacting the delivery of cement exports as well as raw material supplies. Export consignments from cement factories to the Karachi and Muhammabd Bin Qasim ports in the Sindh Province have been disrupted due to the non-availability of trucks. Supplies of raw materials to cement factories from the p...
PT Semen Papua set to begin construction of new factory, Indonesia
PT Semen Papua is due to start construction of Papua’s first cement factory, which will be constructed in the Paumako port area of East Mimika. The company, which is owned by the Papua provincial administration, will start construction of the new 0.5Mta plant this year, Adolf Haley, head of the regional development planning board, told ANTARA news. Analysis of the Environmental Impact Assessm...
Peru’s cement deliveries up 8% YoY
Cement shipments in Peru reached 939,135t in October, according to the country’s cement association, Asocem. For the Jan-Oct period, deliveries increased by eight per cent YoY. Asocem members exported 18,090t of cement in October.
Lower pricing hits July-September profits, India
Indian cement companies saw their profits drop over the July-September period due to higher cement prices and freight expenses. Average dispatches across the country were estimated to have increased by 3.5 per cent, according to Business Line. Meanwhile, coal expenses were also lower as the international market price was down 11 per cent YoY to US$78/t. However, the average cement price...
Ecuador October cement sales see monthly, annual gains
Cement sales in Ecuador totaled 611,987t in October 2013, an increase of 4.4 per cent YoY, the Institute of Cement and Concrete (INECYC) has reported. The figure also marks a MoM increase of 8.17 per cent compared to the 565,775t sold in September 2013 For the first 10 months of the year, sales have increased by 10.2 per cent to 5.45Mt against the 4.93Mt in the comparative period of 2012.
Cement demand in Argentina advances 19%
In October 2013, Argentinean cement plants shipped 1,151,413t of cement, including exports, representing a 9.5 per cent increase compared to the previous month and a 16.2 per cent rise YoY. Domestic consumption, including imports, reached 1,136,672t, up nine per cent from September and increasing by 19.1 per cent YoY .
US August cement shipments ahead YoY
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the US and Puerto Rico in August 2013 rose five per cent YoY to 8.6Mt, data from the US Geological Survey shows. Shipments for the year through to August were also up slightly to 53.7Mt. The leading Portland cement-producing states, during August were Missouri, Texas, California, Michigan and Florida, in descending order, which accounted for ...
Douala plant expects first output in 2Q14, Cameroon
Dangote Cement’s new cement factory in Douala, Cameroon, is on-track to start producing its first cement in May 2014, the plant’s general manager has said. “The installation activities are ongoing. Engineering is almost 100 per cent done, procurement about 90 per cent, construction we have attained about 60 per cent and we hope that by April or May 2014, we should be in the market,” Adullali ...
Brazil sees rise in monthly cement sales
Preliminary data and market estimates show that cement sales in Brazil during October reached 6.5Mt, a 4.7 per cent YoY increase from the same period of last year. Data from local cement association SNIC shows that over the first nine months of the year, sales totalled 58.9Mt, a YoY increase of 2.4 per cent. For the 12 months between November 2012-October 2013, sales reached 69.7Mt, represen...
Vicem sees significant rise in exports in first 10 months
In the first 10 months, Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem) sales rose by 9.2 per cent YoY to 17.65Mt, including a significant rise in exports. Of the total, 15.84Mt was sold in the domestic market, while 1.8Mt was exported, up 4.8 per cent and 74.2 per cent YoY, respectively. Between January and October, Vicem’s cement and clinker output rose by 9.3 per cent and 10.4 per cent on-...
AUCBM meeting opens in Jordan
The 18th Arab International Cement Conference and Exhibition opened its doors today to delegates from across the Middle East & Africa cement industry at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre on the Dead Sea in the Kingdom of Jordan. Ahmad Al-Rousan, Secretary General of the AUCBM welcomes delegates to this year's meeting in Jordan During his inaugurating speech, Dr Hatem...
Cementos Venezuela’s Pertigalete works out of action
Staff at Pertigalete, Cementos Venezuela’s largest plant, have declared an “operational emergency” as the seven kilns have stopped producing clinker. Union leaders have said there are no trucks to transport to limestone from the quarries to the plant and only four out of 13 mills work (two to grind raw meal and two to grind cement). Louis Chapparo, general secretary of the workers’ union, ...