Cement News tagged under: Completed project
Semen Baturaja sales up 24% in first three months18 April 2014, Published under Cement NewsIndonesian state-owned cement maker PT Semen Baturaja's first-quarter sales rose 24 per cent to 305,000t from a year earlier. The cement producer has also opened a new cement mill with a capacity of 750,000tpa, according to a report from Kresna Securities. Baturaja said it plans to join fellow Indonesian manufactures on the Indonesia Stock Exchange and “may go public in the next two years,” Sadikin Aksa, managing director of Bosowa Corp told the Jakarta Globe last week. |
KHD wins new Turkish order, Maras performance update09 April 2014, Published under Cement NewsKHD has received order for a new 3500tpd clinker production line at Bolu Cimento’s Kazan plant. Meanwhile, the German equipment specialists have also successfully completed a recent performance test for KCS Kahramanmaras Cimento’s Maras Kiln Line II. Bolu Cimento contract The Oyak Group has awarded KHD the order for a new 3500tpd clinker line at the Bolu Cimento’s Kazan plant, located near Ankara, Turkey. The contract includes engineering, equipment supply, as well as advisory services fo... |
Lucky Cement begins production at Iraq works04 April 2014, Published under Cement NewsPakistan producer Lucky Cement has started production at its 0.87Mta joint venture grinding plant in Basra, Iraq. Lucky Cement CEO, Muhammad Ali Tabba, told local press that production started in February. Mr Ali Tabba explained to Dawn News that the grinding plant is the first phase of development and "if we succeed in our projections, we may go for a full cement production line of 1.25Mt, which may cost around US$125m.” The US$40m project is a 50:50 investment with the Al-Shawy family of ... |
DR Congo: North Kivu starts first cement plant04 April 2014, Published under Cement NewsNyiragongo launched its first cement on 1 April 2014 during a ceremony presided over by the head of the provincial executive, Julien Paluku. This is first cement works to be situated in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The project was initiated by Mr Tana Twagira and will have an initial output of 50tpd. |
Lafarge Brasil inaugurates Rio de Janeiro plant25 March 2014, Published under Cement NewsLafarge has inaugurated a new cement plant in Santa Cruz, in the western zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In its first year of operation the plant will produce some 500,000t of cement and will reach full capacity of 750,000tpa by 2015. The plant covers an area of more than 57,000m2, and is located on the edge of Avenida Brasil to facilitate logistical operations. It will work in line with Lafarge’s existing cement plant in Cantagalo, with which it will share raw materials. Two types of cemen... |
Vietnam: Thach My cement plant launches operations25 March 2014, Published under Cement NewsXuan Thanh Investment and Development JSC has started operations of its Thach My cement plant in the central Vietnam province of Quang Nam. The plant has a design capacity of 1.7Mta in the first phase. It was identified as a key project of the province when construction started in July of 2010. |
Cimentos de Moçambique boosts 2013 sales07 March 2014, Published under Cement NewsCimentos de Moçambique, the Mozambican subsidiary of Cimpor, saw a 9.8 per cent rise in sales last year to 1.3Mt as the start up of two new mills and a more “aggressive commercial policy” improved competitiveness in 2013 against imports. The most recent estimates indicate that Mozambique's GDP grew about 6.5 per cent in 2013, led by the construction and agriculture sectors, Cimpor noted in its latest annual report. The domestic cement market continued its upward trend and grew more than th... |
Steppe Cement completes commissioning of Line 504 March 2014, Published under Cement NewsSteppe Cement Ltd announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Karcement JSC, has successfully completed the commissioning of the new dry-process Line 5 in Kazakhstan. The new kiln line is expected to increase Steppe Cement Group's cement production capacity by an additional 1.2Mta. "In view of the successful completion, Steppe Cement Group, its board of directors and management wish to congratulate all employees for their commendable efforts especially during the cold winter season whic... |
Indonesian president inaugurates Tonasa V project19 February 2014, Published under Cement NewsPresident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia has officially inaugurated Semen Tonasa’s Line V project and power plant in Pangkajene Island District, South Sulawesi. Semen Tonasa, which is part of Semen Indonesia group of companies, invested US$289m in this fifth line which has a capacity of 8000tpd. The project has added 2.5Mta of volumes to Tonasa’s cement portfolio, bringing its total capacity to 7Mta. New equipment, supplied by some of Europe’s leading technology providers, spanned r... |
February launch for Cimaf plant23 January 2014, Published under Cement NewsCiments de L’Afrique (Cimaf), a subsidiary of Ciments de L’Atlas, has said it intends to officially start production at its Doula grinding plant in Cameroon next month. The new milling facility, located in the industrial zone of Bonabéri, will have an initial cement capacity of 0.5Mta and be supplied with clinker from Morocco. According to local sources, the last bagging tests were recently concluded and the first bag of cement was produced on 27 November 2013. Polysius France was aw... |