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Star Cement exports clinker to Bangladesh via river route

12 August 2013, Published under Cement News

India-based Star Cement said it has dispatched its first barge of clinker to Bangladesh via river. The company is aiming to export over 50,000t of clinker to Bangladesh every month using the riverine route, the Meghalaya Times reported its President (Sales & Marketing), Jyoti Swaroop Agarwal, as saying. In a pilot project Star Cement had started clinker export to Bangladesh last year by road and now it has started to export by river. "We believe that this mode of logistics will definitely b...

Bangladesh cement producers seek new export markets

28 May 2013, Published under Cement News

Bangladesh cement producers are searching for new exports markets in a bid to extend their current reach and increase utilisation levels. Our cement export is fully dependent on north-eastern states of India, and now we are searching new destinations", Additional Managing Director of Crown Cement Alamgir Kabir told the Financial Express. “We have invited a number of new buyers to visit Bangladeshi cement industries and received a good response from the new destinations," he added. Current...

Cementos Molins first-quarter profit down by 53%

03 May 2013, Published under Cement News

Spanish cement maker Cementos Molins reported a 53 per cent on the year drop in its profit for the first quarter of 2013 to EUR4.7m, mainly due to the losses sustained by the domestic market. Spanish subsidiaries closed the quarter with a EUR10.96m loss, 47 per cent more than the previous year. Consolidated turnover reached EUR195m with income falling by 18 per cent in the Spain and 6.6 per cent in overseas markets.  The company, which operates a cement plant in the Catalan capital o...

Taiheiyo wins Bangladesh logo case

15 February 2013, Published under Cement News

Japanese cement producer Taiheiyo Cement Corp has won a court case in Bangladesh for the use of its logo by local cement manufacturers. The Bangladesh District Judge, Dhaka, issued an order on 29 January 2013 stating that the "Defendants Nos 1-4 (Bengal Tiger Cement Industries Ltd and Others) be restrained from using the Trademark and Trade Name of the Plaintiff-petitioner (Taiheiyo Cement Corporation, Japan)." Bengal Tiger Cement Industries Ltd of Bangladesh was alleged producing, mar...

Clinker dispatches resume from Chittagong port, Bangladesh

14 January 2013, Published under Cement News

The dispatches of imported raw materials for the cement industry from Chittagong Port of Bangladesh to cement plants resumed on 12 January after the Bangladesh River Transport Workers’ Federation (BRTWF) had called off their strike. Chittagong Port Authority said the clinker unloading activities at Chittagong Port and 16 private jetties of Karnaphuli River resumed on Saturday. According to BRTWF, workers have called off the nationwide strike and returned to work as authorities agreed to ...

Bangladesh: strike disrupts inland clinker transport

11 January 2013, Published under Cement News

An indefinite strike by the Bangladesh River Transport Workers’ Federation has disrupted the transport of imported clinker from Chittagong Port to cement plants through inland rivers. No clinker has been transported since Wednesday due to the strike, a spokesman of Chittagong Port told CemNet News. The offloading of 12 foreign-flag vessels laden with 466,651t of clinker at the port is expected to be affected. Four vessels have seen their offloading of 177,139t of clinker halted mid-operat...

Bangladesh: clinker shipment held at port

03 January 2013, Published under Cement News

A clinker shipment from Singapore for Bangladesh's second largest cement producer HeidelbergCement Bangladesh (HCB) has been hindered by litigation for the past month.  According to sources from the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA), as well as Bangladesh shipping Industry sources, a foreign flag bulk carrier DD Fidelity has been detained since 6 December 2012 on the order of the High Court of Bangladesh due to a dispute regarding the original bill of landing. The vessel shipped 22,810t o...

Bangladesh: Premier Cement Mills completes expansion programme

16 November 2012, Published under Cement News

Leading cement manufacturer and exporter in Bangladesh, Premier Cement Mills Limited (PCML), has announced the completion of it expansion programme, raising the consolidated installed capacity of PCML to 2.4Mta from 1.2Mta at West Mukterpur, Munshigonj in central Bangladesh.   MD Shafiqul Islam Talukder, Chief Finance Officer & Company Secretary of PCML, told CemNet that the expansion project for the third and fourth units were being completed at an estimated cost of over BDT1.11bn (USD13.5...

Cementos Molins posts EUR31m profit, up 85%

31 October 2012, Published under Cement News

Spain’s Cementos Molins has posted a profit of EUR31.16m in the first nine months of the year. The 85 per cent rise has been attributed to successful foreign business, which continues to offset the decline in Spanish sales. The company’s operations in Spain have seen profits decline on the back of a 16 per cent drop in domestic sales as Spanish cement demand continues to post further lows. The drastic falls in consumption have seen cement demand plunge to a level not seen since the 1960s....

Holcim: August '12

03 September 2012, Published under Cement News

Cement sales during 1H2012 increased from 70.9Mt to 74Mt, up 4.4 per cent YoY, while sales of aggregates and ready-mix concrete fell by seven and 1.3 per cent to 75.6Mt and 22.8Mm3, respectively. As a result, net sales rose 2.1 per cent to CHF10.357bn (US$11.157bn/ R8.591bn). The rise in cement sales is the result of active emerging markets and North American gains. In particular, group companies in India, the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia benefitted from significantly higher cement s...