Cement News tagged under: Eastern Europe
VostokCement completes repair of kiln17 December 2021, Published under Cement NewsRussia’s VostokCement has completed the repair of the second rotary kiln at its Teploozersk facility. During two months of work, the lining was replaced, the smoke pump was repaired and a new foundation for the sixth support of the furnace was filled in. The heat exchanger has also been replaced, which will improve heat exchange in the furnace and optimise fuel consumption, according to the company. |
CNPC begins 2.5Mta plant construction03 December 2021, Published under Cement NewsChina’s CNPC has reportedly started construction of a US$200m plant in Uzbekistan’s Tashkent region. The facility is expected to produce 2.5Mta of cement. CNPC has already imported more than 40 machines and equipment worth US$16.7m into Uzbekistan for the project. |
Medcem receives export award03 December 2021, Published under Cement NewsTurkey-based Medcem has been awarded as both the company with the highest grey cement exports and the company with the highest increase in grey cement exports. The award was delivered at a gala night for Turkish Cement Exporters. Alongside this, Medcem is currently embarking on a US$230m project to expand its Mersin factory, raising clinker production capacity from 3.5Mta to 6.5Mta. |
CRH's Ukraine operations rebrand02 December 2021, Published under Cement NewsCRH’s cement plants in Ukraine are to operate under the new brand name of CEMARK. Mykolaivcement, Kamyanets-Podilskyi and Odessa cement plants will come under this branding. The rebranding of the CRH cement plants in Ukraine is linked with a change in the global brand structure for CRH entities. CRH is transitioning from being a holding company to being a global corporate brand. The aim is to build a strong national brand with its own Ukrainian heritage. On 22 November, CRH’s locat... |
Qiziliqumsement prepares to launch Kiln Line 418 November 2021, Published under Cement NewsUzbek cement producer Qiziliqumsement has invested US$112m to add a fourth production line. This is the company’s the first significant investment in the plant since 1989 and it is due to come on-stream in December. Qiziliqumsement's new line, located just outside Navoi, will add 2.2Mta of cement to its output, bringing the total output to 5.8Mta, a bit less than a third of Uzbekistan’s entire cement production. “The contractors are Russian, Turkish and Chinese, although most of the... |
A new round of Russian consolidation12 November 2021, Published under Cement NewsThe RUB161m acquisition of Eurocement's assets by the Mikhailovsky Combine of Building Materials ( Smikom group) in June 2021 has sent the Russian cement market into a new consolidation phase. Russian billionaire Lev Kvetnoy, who owns OOO Gazmetallproekt, the second-biggest Russian cement player, is now closing in on the acquisition of two former Inteko plants. The Trust Bank put the two cement plants up for open auction on 18 October 2021. Applications will be accepted up to 8 Decembe... |
Buzzi Unicem's 9M21 regional results improve in USA and Eastern Europe09 November 2021, Published under Cement NewsThe sales volumes achieved by Buzzi Unicem in the third quarter of the current year showed a positive development in the United States and in Eastern Europe, which more than offsets the partial slowdown observed in Italy, mainly due to a high-base comparison, and a more evident contraction in Germany, also penalised by the unfavourable weather in July. In Italy, in the first 9M21, sales volumes nonetheless stood well above the level reached last year, with prices that confirmed the pos... |
Ukraine sees production rise 15% YoY in 9M2105 November 2021, Published under Cement NewsCement production in Ukraine increased 15.2 per cent YoY in the first nine months of 2021, according to Ukrcement. The association also expects the country to consume more than 10Mt in the full-year for the first time since 2014. "We have production data for nine months and we can predict with slight optimism that this year, for the first time since 2014, we will move to more than 10Mt of cement consumed in the domestic market. If there are no emergencies, we will reach 10.5Mt," said Pavlo ... |
Fives Pillard wins east European order29 October 2021, Published under Cement NewsFives Pillard is installing a raw material-drying hot gas generator for a cement plant in eastern Europe. The 75MW hot gas generator will operate with air at 250°C. During its start-up it will be fired with natural gas until it reaches 30 per cent of its power capacity, after which peat will become the main fuel. The client's objective is to reduce the cost of clinker production by replacing natural gas with a less expensive pulverised fuel, peat. The difficulty of this ... |
Gasmet supplies Holcim Croatia with CMM system22 October 2021, Published under Cement NewsGasmet has supplied its continuous mercury monitoring (CMM) system to Holcim Croatia (Holcim group) to monitor mercury emissions and maintain higher levels of plant operation safety. The CMM system was distributed by RACI, which handles Gasmet products in Slovenia and Croatia. While Croatia currently has no legislation for continuous monitoring of mercury emissions, Holcim has strict limits for emissions from its own cement plants. "The product gives us exactly what we want – peace of min... |