Cement News tagged under: East Africa
EAPCC sees start kiln shell replacement03 August 2022, Published under Cement NewsEast African Portland Cement Co (EAPCC) has started the replacement of the kiln shell at its Athi River plant in Kenya. The burning zone of the kiln has been damaged for some time and has led to cement shortages in the market. Due to the high costs of energy and an old clinker line, the board has prioritised efficiency and reliability of our integrated plant operations to drive cost optimisation,” said Oliver Kirubai, the company’s managing director. The 54m-long kiln will see the re... |
MSG Group signs Berbera plant deal with Bedeschi01 July 2022, Published under Cement NewsMSG Group of Companies through its Dubai based subsidiary company, Horn Holding Group Ltd (HHG), has signed an agreement with Bedeschi SPA for the construction of phase 1 of an integrated cement plant in Berbera, Somaliland. The plant will take about 18 months to construct with installed cement capacity of 700,000tpa. The entire plant project will take three years to complete with a production capacity of 3300tpd of cement and 3000tpd of clinker. The Phase 1 of the project is expect... |
CIMERWA posts 6M revenues of RWF44bn01 July 2022, Published under Cement NewsCIMERWA Plc ( PPC Group ) has announced a RWF5.2bn (US$5m) net profit in the six months for the period ended 31 March 2022 with total revenue of RWF44bn, indicating a 45 per cent increase compared to the same period last year. Albert Sigei, the CEO of CIMERWA Plc, said: “It has been a great six months and the main factors that helped us include improvement in plant operating efficiency and also some projects that allowed us to open up additional air capacity organically within the... |
Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe to increase exports24 June 2022, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Cement Zimbabwe made its first exports to Malawi and is expecting to build on the shipment to increase exports from Zimbabwe. “Because of our significant capacity, which is first of all oversized for the domestic market, growing demand in the region for this type of products, we are looking at, especially, (export) markets like Zambia and Malawi,” said CEO Geoffrey Ndugwa. “We just made our first exports to Malawi a few weeks ago, so we are feeling pretty good about the trend,” h... |
Lafarge Zimbabwe sells majority stake in its operations08 June 2022, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Zimbabwe is selling 76.45 per cent of its business to Fossil Mines Pvt Ltd. The Holcim group member announced on Monday that it was selling the majority stake in its business. This is a further sale for Holcim following recent divestments decisions taken in India for ACC Ltd and Ambuja Cements. The Manresa cement plant has a cement capacity of 0.45Mta and employees 800 people directly. There is currently a 0.5Mta expansion project being constructed at the plant. |
Redecam commissions Bamburi Cement baghouse17 May 2022, Published under Cement NewsRedecam has commissioned a new bag filter at Bamburi Cement ( Holcim Group ), Mombasa , Kenya. The project required a turnkey solution to convert the main kiln and electrostatic precipitator for a new baghouse. The project had been scheduled for 2020 but had been delayed because of COVID-19. There were no loss-in-time accidents. |
New cement and clinker plants for Burundi16 May 2022, Published under Cement NewsBurundi company Intracom is finalising the process to set up clinker and cement plants in Kigoma, according to the Daily News. The cement plant will have a capacity of 0.6Mta while the clinker plant will have a 1Mta capacity. The new plants are expected to meet demand in the Lake Tanganyika region as well as Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). “The main cement customers are in Kigoma and we will export to countries around the Lake Tanganyika corridor,” said Rubenga Samson, I... |
Ethiopia prohibits cement plants employing agents to sell cement12 May 2022, Published under Cement NewsThe Ministry of Industry in Ethiopia has directed cement factories to exclude agents from the market network ,and sell the product directly, according to Addis Standard. In a letter dispatched to 10 cement factories, the ministry asked the factories to indicate in a letter the names and number of agents they had excluded. State Trade Minister, Hassen Mohammed, told the news outlet that the ministry is working to shorten the commercial chain, adding that agents were one of the reasons ... |
Malawi launches calcined clay project29 March 2022, Published under Cement NewsMalawi's State Vice President, Dr Saulosi Klaus Chilima, has officially launched the country’s Limestone Calcined Clay Cement project at the Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe. The aim of the project is to strengthen the building material sector in the country by focussing on two building material areas, walling materials and cement. The project will use locally-sourced resources such as limestone, gypsum and other industrial minerals. Malawi’s Minister of Mining, Dr Albert Mbawala, said... |
Kenya considers duty increase on imported clinker21 March 2022, Published under Cement NewsThe Kenyan government is considering an increase on duty on imported clinker to rein in trading malpractices. It says some errant cement companies have been abusing the low tax regime of 10 per cent in the region and now wants to take countermeasures to reduce clinker imports. “Some of these cement companies are importing clinker and the same companies are mining clinker and exporting it to neighbouring countries. So we need to come out together to discipline that behaviour because you can... |