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Fives installs grinding mill for ECDE

05 May 2017, Published under Cement News

Fives has installed the first FCB B cement grinding mill in April 2017 at Entreprise des Ciments et Dérivés d’El Chellif’s (ECDE) 6000tpd clinker line at Chlef, Algeria. ECDE is a member of the industrial group Ciments d’Algérie (GICA). Installation of the mill followed the erection of the Ø5.1m x L 82m kiln in February 2017. A heavy lifting jack crane system sliding on rails was required to install the Ø4.8m x 17.8m shell and 98.5t gearbox inside its specific finished building. Grinding ...

GICA sets new production record

26 April 2017, Published under Cement News

Groupe Industriel des Ciments d’Algérie (GICA) has set, for the second year running, a new production record. In 2016 the company produced 12.6Mt of cement, up four per cent YoY from 12.14Mt in 2015. While claiming that the cement volumes of the group’s 12 cement plants have been fully sold on the market, the cement group stresses that its main objective is to "actively contribute to closing the cement deficit estimated at 4Mta, in a context marked by large public investments in the housin...

Algeria: thyssenkrupp awarded 6000tpd plant order

25 January 2017, Published under Cement News

Société des Cements Sigus, a subsidiary of Groupe Industriel des Cements d'Algerie (GICA), has placed an order with thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions for a new 6000tpd plant. The plant will be located in Sigus, Oum El Bouaghi, around 340km east of Algiers. This order follows a previous contract with GICA for a 6000tpd plant which was signed in 2013. The main components of the order include a 1600tph primary crusher, a 500tph secondary crusher for additives, a 75,000t circular blending bed...

Algeria: second production unit at Ain El Kebira commissioned

06 January 2017, Published under Cement News

Minister of Industry and Mining, Abdesslam Bouchouareb, has inaugurated the second production unit at GICA’s cement plant at Ain El Kebira, Setif. The 2Mta unit will help Algeria to reach the stage of self-sufficiency in cement supply. It was also announced that the 1.5Mta Adrar cement plant is due to be commissioned by April 2017 whilst the 2Mta Chlef plant is expected by October. According to Mr Bouchouareb, national cement production should increase by 5.5Mta, leaving Algeria able to ...

Algeria: new cement plant in Sigus

15 July 2016, Published under Cement News

Algerian Prime Minister, Abdelmalek Sellal, laid the first stone of a cement plant operated by the Industrial Group of Cements of Algeria (GICA) on Thursday in Sigus (Oum El Bouaghi). The Prime Minister said that large investments for the construction of cement plants across the country had been made available in an attempt to contribute to sustainable economic growth. He noted that Algeria must begin exporting cement by 2018 or 2019. The new plant is located approximately 5km south of...

Algeria: GICA subsidiary starts work on Bechar plant

22 June 2016, Published under Cement News

Work has begun on a new cement plat for Saoura-Ciment company, a GICA subsidiary. Situated 965km south of Algiers, the greenfield Bechar cement plant will cost DZD34bn to build and will have a cement capacity of 1Mta. This plant, which will be commissioned in 2019, will allow the strengthening of national production to raise it to 23Mta, said officials from the Public Industrial Group of Cement of Algeria (GICA). The industrial projects in Bechar are part of the new strategy of nationa...

Algeria: GICA to build cement plants

01 June 2016, Published under Cement News

GICA signed two agreements on Tuesday in Algiers with Chinese equipment manufacturer CBMI (a subsidiary of Sinoma) to build a new cement plant in Bechar and extend the plant in Zahana (Mascara). Owned by GICA subsidiary Saoura Cement Co, the new plant in Bechar will have a capacity of 1Mta and is expected to start production in 2018. Zahana cement plant currently has a production capacity of 1Mta, which will increase the plant capacity 2.5Mta. Work on the extension of this plant is schedu...

Algeria: Aïn Kebira receives stock exchange go-ahead

11 February 2016, Published under Cement News

Aïn Kebira, a subsidiary of Groupe Industries de Cimenterie d’Algerie (GICA), has received the approval of the Algerian Commission of Stock Exchange Organisation and Surveillance (COSOB) to list its shares on the Algiers Stock Exchange. The introduction is scheduled to take place between 1 and 30 April 2016 by means of a capital increase. A total of 11.864m new shares will be offered at a price of DZD1600 (US$15.14) per share.

Algeria: GICA breaks production record in 2015

14 January 2016, Published under Cement News

Groups industrial des cements d’Algérie (GICA) broke its production record in 2015 when it manufactured 12,143,557t of cement, up five per cent when compared with its output of 11,55,280t in 2014. The volumes produced by the group’s 12 cement plants were “all sold in the domestic market, thereby honouring all orders and requirements expressed by the construction market,” said GICA. In the first 10 days of 2016, the group has produced 269,128t and sold 241,248t or 90 per cent of its ou...

Algeria’s GICA plans to produce 23Mt in 2019

04 January 2016, Published under Cement News

Algerian cement producer, Groupe Industriel des ciments d’Algerie (GICA) expects to increase its cement capacity in four plants and build a further two works. This will raise capacity from the current 11.5Mta to 23Mta in 2019. Expansion projects at the works of Aïn Kebira and Chlef are forecast to be completed in September this year, increasing capacity to 1.5Mta. As a result, GICA expects to replace the 3.5Mt of imports by national output by the end of the year. Moreover, Zahana and ...