Cement News tagged under: Trading
India seeks to import 5-10Mt of cement from Pakistan02 August 2007, Published under Cement NewsIndia has agreed to accelerate cement import from Pakistan to fulfill its domestic demand, commerce secretaries of both the countries said Wednesday. "We have scope of importing anywhere between 5Mt and 10Mt of cement from Pakistan," Indian Commerce Secretary GK Pillai told reporters after a press conference. He said both countries are working on ways to transport cement from Pakistan to India. Currently, a team from the Bureau of Indian Standards is visiting Pakistan’s cement companies a... |
Husheng Tianya exports 2Mt clinker to Spain31 July 2007, Published under Cement NewsHainan Huasheng Tianya Cement Co, Ltd signed a 2Mt cement clinker export contract with a Spanish company on July 26th. Huasheng Tianya will export 500,000t of cement clinker to Spain this year. Starting next year, the export volume will reach 2Mta, with the annual export value at US$60m. |
Pakistani firms to sell cement in India31 July 2007, Published under Cement NewsSeven Pakistani cement companies have acquired provisional certification from the Bureau of Indian Standards to sell their product in India while they complete procedures for the final stamp of approval from the quality-control authority. Officials at the Indian High Commission here said earlier this month inspectors of the Bureau of Indian Standards visited three companies and took back product samples for testing. The testing process will take about four weeks. Provisional permission Mea... |
North-Caucasian Railways dispatches over 2Mt of cement in 1H200731 July 2007, Published under Cement NewsIn 1H2007 North-Caucasian Railways (SKZD) dispatched over 2Mt of cement, i.e. 40% more than in 1H2006. In June 2007 SKZD loaded 450,000 tonnes of cement, which is over 135% more than in June 2006. Analysts forecast over 4.5m tonnes of cement (27.5% to 2006) cargo dispatch in 2007, the company officially reported. |
Some pricing stability in the States30 July 2007, Published under Cement NewsTexas Industries has announced that it was now beginning to achieve cement price increases in both of its major markets, Texas and California. In Texas it confirmed that January 2007’s $10 per ton price increase had largely held in North Texas. Although January’s $10 per ton increase in Central Texas and $15 per ton increase in South Texas (Houston) did not hold, it was trying again in both regions and expected to get at least part of the increase during the summer (as reported by analysts a... |
India Govt Exec: to relax rules on cement imports further27 July 2007, Published under Cement NewsIndia’s federal government will soon announce new norms to allow easier imports of cement to check rising local prices of the commodity, a senior government executive said Thursday. "Cement imports have to be made easier. We will formally announce new rules in a day or two," Ajay Dua, the senior-most government executive at the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, told reporters on the sidelines of an industry event. Dua declined to elaborate. Earlier this year the government re... |
Bangladeshi firms approved to sell cement in India23 July 2007, Published under Cement NewsTwo Bangladesh-based companies have received the approval from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for selling cement in Indian market. Cement makers Aramik Cement of Dhaka and M I Cement Factory of Chittagong are the first foreign manufacturers to get the nod after the government has liberalised the cement import policy in May this year. Domestic manufacturers earlier this month had hiked prices by Rs 3-5 per bag. "With these two approvals, the total number of approved forei... |
Goldsun wins management right for second storage centre at Taipei Harbour19 July 2007, Published under Cement NewsGoldsun Development & Construction Co., one of Taiwan’s leading construction firms, recently announced it has won the tender for the management right to the second storage and transportation center at the Taipei Harbor on the BOT (build-operate-transfer) basis. Goldsun is the second domestic firm, following Chia Hsin Cement Co., to acquire the management right for a storage and transportation center at the Taipei Harbor. Goldsun said it would invest NT$2 billion (US$60.97m) to operate th... |
Government companies foil effort to ease cement prices16 July 2007, Published under Cement NewsIndian Cement imports will be slow to rise even though the government has brought down the import duty to nil, due to the insistence of many government-owned companies on domestically supplied cement from select firms. NTPC recently turned down a request from a construction company to use cement imported from Pakistan since "cement is to be procured from reputed manufacturers like ACC, Cement Corporation of India, L&T, Gujarat Ambuja, Laxmi, Jaypee and Grasim only", even if the imported ... |
Cement disappears from markets16 July 2007, Published under Cement NewsIn Zimbabwe, cement has disappeared from the formal market since the launch of the operation to reduce prices, but one of the country’s manufacturers, Circle Cement, says it is producing up to 600tpd. On Thursday, the taskforce on price monitoring and stabilisation visited Circle Cement’s factory in Manresa to seek an explanation from company officials. The officials argued that the company was producing more than enough for the country but were equally worried that people were not comin... |