Cement News tagged under: Taiheiyo Cement
Visible cracks10 October 2016, Published under Cement NewsOver the last 18 months CDP has analysed sectors ranging from electric utilities and automotive manufacturing to extractives and has benchmarked how leading players manage climate risks and opportunities. In June it was the turn of the cement sector, as CDP published ‘Visible Cracks’, its first report for investors on the global cement industry. This publication revealed how differently companies in the sector are preparing for the transition to a low-carbon economy. By Tarek Soliman and Cha... |
Japan: Taiheiyo Cement to set up subsidiary for biomass plant01 August 2016, Published under Cement NewsTaiheiyo Cement will spend JPY23.5bn (US$224m) to set up a biomass power plant at a cement production site in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, Japan. An electricity-wholesaling subsidiary with a capitalisation of JPY4bn will be created this August to undertake the project, reports Nikkei Asian review. The 75,000kW facility will be fed with palm kernel shells and empty fruit bunches left over from palm oil production and will begin operation in the autumn of 2019. All output will be sold to eRex,... |
Japan: Taiheiyo Cement plans 75MW biomass power plant24 June 2016, Published under Cement NewsJapan's Taiheiyo Cement will construct a biomass-fired unit with 75MW in Ofuna Factory, Iwate prefecture. The new unit is understood to burn domestic and imported biomass fuel. At the site, a several power units had been operational, but some of them were damaged when the Great East Japan Earthquake hit the country in 2011. Thus, the new unit is considered as a replacement of the old power unit. Plus, since it will be built on the premises of the factory, Iwate prefecture decided there wou... |
Japan: companies turn to recycling12 May 2016, Published under Cement NewsJapan’s cement makers are turning to resource recycling as alternative revenue sources as demand for cement is seen shrinking over the mid- to long term. Japanese demand for cement declined for a second straight year in FY15, dropping 6.3 per cent to 42.66Mt. The upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be the only anomaly in this otherwise waning market. Taiheiyo Cement is focussing on recovering precious metals and substitute fuels from scrapped automobiles. Taiheiyo Cement is developing a new... |
Recognition for Taiheiyo Cement Corp's CSR Report 201525 February 2016, Published under Cement NewsTaiheiyo Cement Corporation’s CSR Report 2015, published last September, has been awarded the “Excellence prize for special recognition” in the environmental reparation section of the 19th Environmental Communication Awards, sponsored by Japan’s Ministry of the Environment and the Global Environmental Forum. Established in 1997, the Environmental Communication Awards promote efforts in corporate environmental management and environmental communication, and aim to raise the quality of inform... |
Taiheiyo Cement concludes contract for research into Fukushima agricultural land reclamation20 October 2015, Published under Cement NewsTaiheiyo Cement Corp of Japan has concluded a contract for collaborative research with the Fukushima Future Center for Regional Revitalisation of Fukushima University and commenced research using Minamisoma City as a case study. The goal is to promote research into preserving and utilising agricultural land damaged by the 2011 Earthquake and to respond to the need for regional revitalisation and agricultural recovery through recovering agricultural land by cultivating 'energy crops'... |
Taiheiyo Cement selected for second consecutive year for DJSI Asia Pacific09 October 2015, Published under Cement NewsTaiheiyo Cement was selected for the second consecutive year as a component of the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia/Pacific Index (DJSI Asia Pacific) in 2015. This index is the Asia Pacific version of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) and serves as one of the key benchmarks for socially responsible investment. The DJSI are the investment indices developed and offered cooperatively by the US-based S&PDow Jones Indices and Switzerland-based RobecoSAM, which evaluate the sustainability ... |
Taiheiyo Cement's Singapore additions10 June 2015, Published under Cement NewsTaiheiyo Cement, which operates a cement terminal in Singapore through Singapore Cement Manufacturing (SCMC), a joint venture with Singapore-based Hong Leong Asia Ltd, announced the completion of a new 24,000t cement silo at SCMC's cement terminal. Infrastructure investment, including subway and highway construction, is driving the robust cement market in Singapore and fueling demand for low-heat-type cement as a way to prevent thermal cracking in concrete structures with large cross-sect... |
Taiheiyo dissolves Xinjiang joint venture09 September 2014, Published under Cement NewsTaiheiyo Cement has ended a Chinese joint venture with a Xinjiang-based company in response to government efforts to cut excess capacity in the cement sector. Following calls by Beijing to curb investment in the cement industry to ease oversupply concerns and given the business environment in the regional industry, Taiheiyo and Xinjiang Tianye decided to break off the agreement, according to a Nikkei Report. The joint venture agreement had initially been signed at the end of 2012 bet... |
R&I upgrades Taiheiyo to BBB+28 August 2014, Published under Cement NewsRating and Investment Information Inc (R&I) has upgraded Taiheiyo Cement to to BBB+ from BBB. The outlook is ‘Stable’. The ratings agency notes that after seeing demand plummet in key markets of Japan and the US in FY09 (ended March 2010), Taiheiyo Cement has since improved its cost structure by slashing fixed expenses through the streamlining of its production and supply structure and reducing variable expenses through the use of recycled raw and fuel materials. “This, coupled with an... |