Cement News tagged: International
Cemex to open 0.45Mta mill in Clemencia, Colombia
Cemex has scheduled the inauguration of its new 0.45Mta cement grinding unit in Clemencia, Colombia. The mill will produce two types of cement – for general use and structural applications – to distribute in bags and bulk. It is expected that the output will be supplied to large projects under development along the Caribbean coast. Construction of the COP120bn (US$64m) works started las...
Carthage Cement officially inaugurated
Carthage Cement officially inaugurated its new cement plant in Tunisia on 5 October. The opening ceremony was attended by Mr. Ridha Saidi, Minister in charge of Economic Affairs, Mr. Mehdi Jomaa, Minister of Industry and Mr. Elyes Fakhfakh, Minister of Finance. Carthage Cement lit up its precalciner for the first time on 4 September 2013, in the presence of international experts. The new...
Polish monthly output declines 1.1% YoY
Cement output in Poland slipped slightly on an annual comparative basis by 1.1 per cent to 1.616Mt in September, data from the country’s cement association, SPC, said. However, cement sales rose 2.1 per cent YoY to 1.604Mt.? For the first nine months of 2013, cement output declined by 13.3 per cent to 10.709Mt, while sales dropped by 12.6 per cent to 10.899Mt.
Adana Cement awarded Dupont Safety Performance Improvement award
Adana Cement, a Turkish company with production facilities across the Mediterranean region and Cyprus, has been selected as a winner for the DuPont Safety and Sustainability Awards 2013 based on its impressive achievements in improving safety performance, according to DuPont. A key element in the Adana’s efforts to ensure a safe work environment has been its ongoing commitment to improving oc...
UK cement industry faces shake-up
The Competition Commission (CC) in the UK has said it is looking to invigorate competition in the British cement market by opening the way for a new independent producer. As well as provisionally requiring Lafarge Tarmac to sell a cement plant (and accompanying ready mix concrete plants if necessary) to facilitate entry of this new producer, the CC is also proposing to limit the flow of inf...
Reliance prepares to commission Madhya Pradesh plant, India
Reliance Infrastructure is to commission its 5Mta cement plant in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh by the end of this month which will expand the company’s domestic reach. Reliance Infrastructure, whose main interests are the power distribution and infrastructure development businesses, set up its Reliance Cement subsidiary which would use the fly ash generated from its power unit t...
Rising South African input costs impacting Lafarge margins
Lafarge South Africa has said it may raise cement prices on the local market due to higher fuel and electricity costs. Thierry Legrand, country chief executive, said last week that increasing input costs were having an impact on margins and had not been fully recovered in previous price increases. He said fuel costs rose by 21 per cent in 2011, 16 per cent last year and nine per cent so far ...
Lafarge and Solidia Technologies announce partnership
Lafarge has signed a partnership agreement with the US start-up Solidia Technologies® to industrialise an innovative technology that could reduce the environmental footprint of pre-cast concrete. The technology allows lower CO2 emissions in the cement production process, and involves the capture of CO2 in precast concrete manufacturing. Overall, CO2 emissions could be reduced by up to 70 per c...
Philippine producers call for level playing field
Philippine cement producers are calling on the country’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to create a level playing field to incentivise local expansion plans and higher tariffs on non-Asean imports. In a recent roadmap for the industry, local cement companies have requested the DTI grant the same fiscal incentives enjoyed by new market entrants to those established companies that plan ...
Iranian cement output continues to climb
Iran has reported a four per cent rise in cement output in the first half of the current Iranian calendar compared to the same period of last year. The country has produced 38.3Mt of cement since 21 March 2013, IRNA news reported yesterday. During the sixth calendar month of Shahrivar (23 August - 22 September) total output reached 6.4Mt. Full year projections put total output for the cur...
Lafarge Canada's Bath cement plant celebrates 40th anniversary
The Lafarge Canada cement plant at Bath is celebrating 40 years of building better cities and communities around the Great Lakes region. Built in 1973, the Lafarge Canada Bath cement plant is home for more than 100 employees and located on Lake Ontario just west of the Village of Bath. The plant is capable of producing 1.1Mta of cement and ships cement throughout Ontario and the US. To comm...
HeidelbergCement mulls sale, float of building products business - report
HeidelbergCement is considering selling its building products operations but could simultaneously float the unit shares on the stock market, its chief has told Reuters. Speaking to the news agency on Friday, Berd Scheifele said the German major would first look into potential divestment opportunities for part of the business next year. He further added that amid the top economic environment, ...
Swiss cement deliveries up 3.4% in 3Q13
Swiss cement producers increased their domestic deliveries (including Liechtenstein) by 3.4 per cent in the third quarter of 2013, according to Cemsuisse, the country's cement association. some 1,285,289t of cement were sold to local customers. The rise has been attributed mainly to large projects which accounted for three-quarters of cement sales. In the first nine months of the year, disp...
Sri Lanka Cement Corp to invest in Kankesanthurai revamp
The Sri Lanka Cement Corporation is to invest LKR1500m (US$11.4m) to revamp the Kankesanthurai Cement Factory (KKS) in Kankesanthurai, which has been the object of repeated proposals for revival over recent years. The plant has a capacity of 760,000tpa but operations ceased in 1990 as a result of political instability and security concerns in the north. Following the revamp work, the Kan...
FLSmidth to supply new Oman Cement mill
Oman Cement Company has decided to award the contract for supply and installation of a new cement mill with capacity of 150tph to FLSmidth Pvt Ltd. The company has issued Letter of Intent in this regard and the detailed contract will be finalised soon. Jamal Shamis Al Hooti, Oman Cement's CEO, reports that the project on the Kiln No 1 upgrade is in progress and the kiln is now under shutdown...
Siam Cement Group book celebrates centenary
Siam Cement Group is marking its first centennial this year and plans to celebrate the occasion by passing on its sustainable-business tips to others in a specially written book. The "SCG 100 Years of Innovations for Sustainability" book was launched last week, detailing the history of the group's operations and how it has responded to changes that have taken place in Thailand over the past ce...