Cement News tagged under: Indonesia
PT Semen Padang orders new line, Indonesia31 December 2013, Published under Cement NewsPT Semen Padang, part of the Semen Indonesia Group, has ordered a new cement production line with a capacity of 8000tpd from FLSmidth (Denmark), worth EUR40m (DKK 300m), according to a press release from the Danish equipment manufacturer. The plant is located in Indarung, just outside the city of Padang in West Sumatra, Indonesia. The order comprises equipment for the main part of the production line, including a raw mill, coal mill, preheater, kiln, burner, clinker cooler and silo equipme... |
Fajar Group/Taiwanese Indonesian joint venture project30 December 2013, Published under Cement NewsThe Fajar Group is to build a cement factory in Barru, South Sulawesi, in collaboration with a Taiwanese firm, Indonesian press have reported. The 10,000tpd plant will be 80-per cent owned by the undisclosed Taiwanese company, Antara News quoted Fajar Group founder Alwi Hamu as saying. Hamu added that land clearance has been undertaken for the new plant and construction is expected to begin following Indonesia's legislative and presidential elections next year. He said the IDR7trn invest... |
Indonesia: groundbreaking of Bosowa cement port27 December 2013, Published under Cement NewsIndonesia’s Chief Economic Minister, Hatta Rajasa, inaugurated the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the Bosowa cement packing terminal and port in Barru, South Sulawesi, on 26 December. The project includes a jetty for clinker shipments, a pier for ships or barges, a pier for small vessels dispatching cement, a cement packing terminal and cement storage facilities. Hatta said the construction of the port and related facilities, a IDR700bn investment, would not only support Bos... |
Bosowa inaugurates Maros cement mill, Indonesia24 December 2013, Published under Cement NewsThe Bosowa Group of Indonesia has inaugurated a 1.8Mta cement mill at its plant in Maros, South Sulawesi, raising the company’s total production capacity to 5.3Mta. The inauguration ceremony for the second mill at Maros was attended by MS Hidayat, Indonesia’s Minister of Industry as well as senior officials of the Bosowa Group. The industrial conglomerate’s cement plants are operated by Semen Bosowa Maros and Semen Bosowa Indonesia, which run cement plants in Maros and Batam, respective... |
Loesche to launch subsidiary in Indonesia18 December 2013, Published under Cement NewsLoesche is to open a new subsidiary in Jakarta, Indonesia, scheduled to be fully operational by 1 January 2014. Indonesia is becoming an increasingly-important market for Loesche with the company having received "a substantial number of new orders for its specialist equipment," the Germany-based equipment supplier said in a statement. "And, with a growing population of mills in the cement and other industries, the company has reached the position where it needs expert staff on-the-spot to... |
Bosowa Corp set to start Banten plant construction, Indonesia17 December 2013, Published under Cement NewsThe Bosowa Corporation said it plans to start construction of a new cement plant in Cilegon, Banten, in the first quarter of next year. Company CEO, Erwin Aksa, told the Jakarta Post that should construction begin in March 2014, operations could commence by the end of 2015. The new facility is expected to serve the surrounding areas, notably Banten, Greater Jakarta and Lumpung, Erwin added. The project is expected to cost an estimated cost of IDR1.5trn (US$123.92m), 70 per cent of which... |
Indocement eyes 6% sales growth in 201410 December 2013, Published under Cement NewsIndocement has set a growth target of six per cent next year on the back of new capacity additions and rising domestic demand. In the first nine months of the year, the company increased total cement and clinker volume by just 0.6 per cent per cent. The Citeureup works is adding 1.9Mta of grinding capacity later this year which will boost total capacity to 20.6Mta. It is further adding 4.4Mta of integrated capacity in 2015 in a brownfield project which started construction in October. Two ... |
Indonesia monthly sales growth picks up05 December 2013, Published under Cement NewsSales in Indonesia increased by 7.9 per cent in October, having experienced slowing growth in recent months. Data from the Indonesian Cement Association shows October sales reached 5.58Mt, rebounding from 5.3 per cent growth in the previous month. The October growth rate was mainly attributed to increased demand from islands other than Java, with a significant rise in consumption registered in Sumatra particularly. Indonesia's second most populous island bought 1.15Mt of cement. Java co... |
Semen Indonesia sets 2014 capex target at IDR6trn28 November 2013, Published under Cement NewsPT Semen Indonesia said it requires IDR6trn (US$508m) capital expenditure for expansion in 2014, the company’s president director has said. Speaking to local media, Dwi Soetjipto, said Indonesia's largest cement producer had between IDR4trn-5trn. “The available capex currently does not include expansion plans in Myanmar and Bangladesh. To do that, we need a total of IDR6trn,” Dwi Soetjipto, said as quoted by Kontan.co.id. Soetjipto added that Indonesia's largest cement producer currentl... |
PT Semen Indonesia announces waste heat project21 November 2013, Published under Cement NewsJFE Engineering Corporation announced that it has started work on a waste heat recovery power generation project for PT Semen Indonesia (Persero) Tbk, the leading state-owned company and the largest cement producer in Indonesia. JFE Engineering has also been entrusted for the feasibility study of the Joint Credit Mechanism (JCM) by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOEJ) on this project. The system, mainly consisting of boilers, a steam turbine and a generator, will be designed a... |