Cement News tagged: International
New Uzbekistan cement plant on track for year-end commissioning
A new 0.45Mta cement plant being constructed by Russian investors in Uzbekistan is on track for commissioning by the end of this year. Russian company OOO IP Surhan Cementinvest is building the factory in the Kurkugan district of Surkhandarya oblast. The plant will have access to rail and a 10MW substation of 110/10kV. According to AzerNews, around 60 per cent of the plant’s output will be...
New South Africa industry body announced
A newly-constituted industry body, The Concrete Institute, funded by AfriSam, Lafarge and a new cement producer, Sephaku, is to continue the services provided by the former Cement & Concrete Institute (C&CI), which closed down earlier this year. Under the leadership of Bryan Perrie, the former MD of the C&CI, the Concrete Institute opened its doors in May and is offering most of the servi...
Spanish cement consumption falls by a quarter
Spanish cement consumption fell 25.5 per cent over the first four months of 2012, down to 3.472Mt, latest data from domestic association Oficemen shows. In April alone, demand was 139,578t less than April 2012 to just just 936,956t. Production for the January-April period was also down 25.9 per cent to 4.01Mt compared to 5.42Mt in the same period of 2012. April 2013 output was 19.3 per...
Indian producers directed to pay 10% of CCI penalty
India’s Competition Appellate Tribunal has said that cement companies must pay 10 per cent of the INR6307 crore penalty issued to them by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for cartel practices. Passing an interim order, a COMPAT bench headed by its chairman Justice VS Sirpurkar asked the 11 producers in question along with the Cement Manufacturers Association to pay around INR630 cr...
JKCL cement plant set for July completion, India
A cement grinding plant being constructed by Jammu and Kashmir Cements Ltd (JKCL) in northern India is set for completion in July, the state government has said. Sajad Ahmed Kichloo, Minister for Industries and Commerce, recently toured the state-owned JKCL site where work continues on the 300tpd grinding plant and associated packing facilities. After visiting all sections of the plant, the...
Tunisia records 3% YoY rise in April cement sales
Tunisia’s April cement sales are up 3.35 per cent YoY, although the sales of Ciments de Bizerte and Oum Kelil fell during march due to technical and social issues, according to the country’s Ministry of Industry. The country’s cement factories are currently producing around 25,000tpd and are fully able to meet national demand, which historically peaks at the same level between March and Jun...
US first-quarter figures shipments impacted by harsh winter
Preliminary data from the US Geological Survey shows that shipments of Portland and blended cement in 1Q13 were marginally higher compared to the same period of last year but harsh weather conditions, particularly in the final month of the quarter, dragged on sales. While the construction industry benefited from the mild winter weather in the first quarter of last year, 2013 shipments betwe...
Indonesia cement sales rise 8.6%, Jan-Apr 2013
Indonesian cement sales increased by 8.6 per cent in the four months to the end of April 2013, the latest data from the Indonesian Cement Association (ASI) reveals. Sales for the January-April 2013 period reached 18.12Mt compared to 16.68Mt in the same period of last year. In April 2013 alone, sales also increased by 8.6 per cent to 4.54Mt in April from 4.18Mt in April 2012. The April sales...
Upward trend in Ecuadorian sales continue
Domestic cement sales on the Ecuadorian market in the first four months of 2013 rose by 14.2 per cent YoY while April sales alone surpassed 500,000t. Latest data from the country's cement association INECYC shows that dispatches for the three months to the end of April 2013 reached 2.03Mt compared to 1.79Mt in the same period of last year. In April 2013 alone, sales rose to 545,440t, rep...
New cement unit for Tunisia operational by 2014
Tunisia will expand its cement production facilities in the region of Bizerte by 2014, according to Mehdi Jomaa, the country’s minister of industry. State-owned Ciments de Bizerte operates at around 1Mta. The extension to the Bizerte plant represents an investment of TND250m (US$150.5m). Equipment has been delivered to site and the assembly process reportedly has started.
Cemex Lloseta exported 40% of output to Maghreb
Cemex’s Lloseta cement works in Mallorca, Spain, exported 40 per cent of its output to Maghreb countries last year. The rise in exports proves a turning point for the plant which was on the verge of closure one year ago as the Spanish construction sector faces one of the worst recessions in known history. The opening up of new national and foreign markets has, however, enabled the continu...
Iranian cement output down in first month of year, exports rise
The Iranian cement industry produced 4,940,597t of cement and 6,277,978t of clinker in the first month of the Iranian calendar, known as Farvardin (20 March - 20 April 2013), according to local sources. However, cement production was down1.5 per cent on the 5,013,282t produced in the previous Farvardin, but clinker production rose 1.7 per cent from 6,174,705t in the same month of last year. ...
Argentine April dispatches and consumption advance
Local cement producers in Argentina have reported a rise in dispatches (local and exports) for April 2013 whilst consumption on the local market has also demonstrated healthy gains, latest figures from the country's cement association, AFCP, show. In April 2013, Argentine Portland cement factories dispatched 975,081t of cement, including exports, representing an increase of 3.9 per cent ...
Brazil cement sales rise 11.6% in April
Sales in the Brazilian market rose by 11.6 per cent YoY in April to 5.9Mt, latest data from Sindicato Nacional da Indústria do Cimento, shows. For the first four months of the year, accumulated sales reached 22.1Mt, a marginal advance of 1.4 per cent compared to the same period of last year. Cement sales for the rolling 12 month period of May 2012-April 2013 were 68.6Mt, an increase of 3...
Cemex achieves record alternative fuels substitution rate in Germany
In April 2013, Cemex's German cement plants attained an alternative fuels substitution rate of 82.6 per cent—the first country within the company’s global operations network to reach this milestone. Furthermore, its Kollenbach cement plant in Beckum, Germany, averaged a 90.9 per cent substitution rate for the month, Cemex announced in a statement. “Beyond significantly reducing fuel costs, ou...
Cementir hit by hard Nordic winter
Cementir's first-quarter turnover eased by 0.3 per cent to €194.7m and the EBITDA declined by 26.9 per cent to €9.2m as the cement major was hit by a hard Nordic winter weather. The trading loss increased by 56.1 per cent to €12.4m, but at the pre-tax level the increase in the loss was a more modest 20.3 per cent up to €13.7m. The severe winter weather in Scandinavia and Italy had a partic...