Cement News tagged under: Indonesia
Indonesia: PT Tripa Semen Aceh plant faces legal objection05 August 2016, Published under Cement NewsThe Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has filed the lawsuit against Aceh Tamiang district head Hamdan Sati, becasue the licence that PT Tripa Semen Aceh was given to establish a factory and a mine on 2549ha of land, in Kaloy village, threatens the Leuser Ecosystem and the community's clean water. The licence issued is said to be counter to the 2015 Aceh Government Law, which states that the management of the Leuser Ecosystem must adhere to certain principles of sustainab... |
Indonesia: Kendeng plant protesters win temporary reprieve04 August 2016, Published under Cement NewsPeople from the Kendeng Mountains, in the northern part of Central Java, have won a temporary reprieve after President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said that further environmental impact analyses would be needed before cement factory operations and mining could start in the area. Following his meeting with the Kendeng women, on Tuesday 2 August 2016, the President said that the analyses are to ensure that the construction of cement factories in the karst topographical region would not damage the e... |
Indonesia: President meets with Semen Indonesia protestors03 August 2016, Published under Cement NewsIndonesian President Joko Widodo has met with community representatives who are resisting plans to build a cement factory and quarry at Mount Kendeng in Central Java, the Jakarta Post reports. According to the newspaper, the new PT Semen Indonesia plant is 95 per cent complete. Locals have raised objections on the grounds that the plant will disturb the community and that the mining operation will jeopardise access to groundwater supplies. Following the meeting, the president’s chief o... |
Semen Indonesia exports to East Timor02 August 2016, Published under Cement NewsPT Semen Indonesia has said that it exports 15,000t of cement to Dili, East Timor, every month. Through subsidiary Semen Tonasa, the company has exported to Dili every month since 2000, according to senior manager at the company, Sigit Wahano. Mr Wahano said Semen Indonesia, with a production capacity of 31.8Mta, exports 10 per cent of its production volume every year. |
PT Semen Indonesia22 July 2016, Published under Cement NewsTotal cement sales by Semen Indonesia crept up by 1.2 per cent in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period last year. The opening six months of this year saw sales hit 12.37Mt, versus 12.23Mt in 1H15. Of this total, domestic sales accounted for 12.18Mt, up 1.6 per cent YoY, while exports slipped by 20.1 per cent to 189,052t, compared to 236,679t in the first half of last year. Semen Gresik reported total cement sales of 5.59Mt in 1H16, up 0.7 per cent YoY, followed by Semen Pad... |
Indonesia: Consumption rises 3.1% in year to June 201618 July 2016, Published under Cement NewsCement consumption in Indonesia reached 29.48Mt for the first six months of 2016, according to Indonesia Investments, but sales in Java – the largest market – recorded a decline in June. Overall, cement consumption for 1H2016 was up 3.1 per cent YoY. In June, Indonesia consumed 5.1Mt of cement, up by 1.8 per cent YoY. For the whole six-month period, only the Kalimantan region recorded a decline in consumption (of 16 per cent), but growth in Java was slow at just 1.3 per cent. Export fi... |
Indonesia: SCG Indonesia's sales revenue up 18% YoY04 July 2016, Published under Cement NewsSCG Indonesia, a subsidiary of the Thai cement conglomerate Siam Cement Group (SCG), saw its sales revenue increase 18 per cent YoY to IDR1.39trn (US$103m) in the first quarter, mainly from cement sales. SCG Thailand reported that revenue from SCG Indonesia's sales contributed 3.43 per cent of the company's profits in the first quarter, which was equivalent to US$3bn, according to a company statement. "For the ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] region, where economic growth con... |
PT Indocement29 June 2016, Published under Cement NewsLast month it was revealed that Indonesia needed US$450bn to finance its infrastructure development plans for 2015-19. As many as 30 projects in the road, rail, power, water and waste sectors had been identified as priority projects, fuelling hope among the country’s cement producers of an upturn in cement demand. This week, however, the ‘Indonesia 2016 Construction Outlook: infrastructure opportunities with relative risk and challenges’ report from Research and Markets says that despite the... |
PT Semen Indonesia29 June 2016, Published under Cement NewsCement exports by Semen Indonesia (including Semen Padang and Semen Tonasa) fell by 21.3 per cent during May 2016 to 37,588t, compared to 47,751t in the same month last year, according to the Indonesian Cement Association. This took total exports for January-May to 133,497t, down by 27.5 per cent YoY. Domestic sales during May came in at 2.11Mt, up 6.7 per cent on the 1.98Mt recorded in May 2015. The January-May figure saw an increase of one per cent to 10.01Mt, compared to 9.91Mt in the sam... |
Indonesia: new plant for PT Semen Indonesia29 June 2016, Published under Cement NewsPT Semen Indonesia has plans to invest between IDR4trn (US$303m) and IDR5trn (US$380m)in a new plant in Aceh, according to Corporate Secretary, Agung Wiharto. The company established a new entity on 22 April in cooperation with local company PT Samana Citra Agung, forming PT Semen Indonesia Aceh. This new entity will become the operator of the plant. Samana Citra is the majority owner of Semen Indonesia Aceh as it owns the land on which the new plant was constructed. However, Semen Indone... |