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Import of cement via land route demanded

11 October 2005, Published under Cement News

Abdul Rauf, president of the Pakistan Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), has asked the government to allow the import of cement from India and Iran for the reconstruction of million of houses destroyed in the earthquake. He said the import from India should be allowed through the land route. The ICCI president said the horrible earthquake had caused widespread devastation and there was an urgent need of thousand of tons of cement for reconstruction. He asked Prime Minister Sh...

Government suspends cement exports for the time being, Iran

05 October 2005, Published under Cement News

According to local news reports, cement is back on the government’s umbrella coverage of subsidies again and there would be no more exports until further official notice, said the minister of commerce yesterday. In the meantime, 30 senior managers of cement factories held an emergency meeting to seek ways to dissuade the government from its decision. Nevertheless, 207,000t of cement valued at $11m has been exported from March 21 to August 22, 2005. This indicates 38% and 41% increase in t...

Cement prices up 8-10 per cent

03 October 2005, Published under Cement News

The UAE Contractors Association has warned cement companies that it will take action if prices are raised beyond the recent 8-10 per cent rises. Officials told Gulf News that some cement companies were using fuel price increases as a pretext to increase cement prices. 

Vietnam’s cement industry told to target exports

30 September 2005, Published under Cement News

President Tran Duc Luong has asked the cement industry to become an exporter soon instead of being an importer as at present.   Speaking at a meeting with officials of Vietnam Cement Corporation in Hanoi on Wednesday, Mr. Luong called on the industry to boost production as the nation had a big market, with increasing urban and infrastructure projects and abundant natural resources for cement production. He urged the industry to constantly renew technology and to improve the skills of technici...

Cement prices seen leaping in 2006

29 September 2005, Published under Cement News

Vietnamese cement prices are forecast to rise next year due to increasing prices of imported material, according to local reports. The import price of clinker has in the year to date grown 28.9 per cent year-on-year to US$29.14/tonne.

Dissolution of Cement JSC postponed

29 September 2005, Published under Cement News

The winding up of Cement JSC has been postponed temporarily. The term for issue of certificate on dissolution registeration on the part of the Federal Tax Service (FTS) expired on September 26, 2005, yet the tax services suspended registration actions to consider the claim of Stroysnabkomplekt LLC against the the Zheleznodorozhniy district court, which ruled out to delare Cement bankrupt. As it was earlier reported earlier, Stroysnabkomplekt represents the interests of Novosibirsk-based Iskit...

Saudi demands to examine cement imports

28 September 2005, Published under Cement News

An Al-Riyadh newspaper quoted a notice published in early September 2005 by the white Portland cement manufacturers in Saudi Arabia which included a demand that the Industry and Trade Ministry examine the quality of cement imported into the country from Iran and other countries. The paper noted that representatives of the Saudi Arabian Chamber of Commerce intend to approach the Arab Cement Association and the Standards Bureaus of Arab countries in this matter, demanding that they examine the ...

Danish Unicon, Frode Laursen set up company

27 September 2005, Published under Cement News

Danish concrete company Unicon A/S and Danish transport and logistics company Frode Laursen A/S set up a joint company, Danish transport and logistics services provider Skancon A/S, it was reported on September 26, 2005.  The new company will begin operations as of October 1, 2005. Skancon will start with a staff of 200 and a total of 180 transport units. The company will be responsible for all logistics and distribution operations for ready-mixed concrete to Unicon’s Danish customers. A...

CFTZ’s second cement plant to come on-stream shortly

26 September 2005, Published under Cement News

Construction works aimed at building the second cement producing plant began in Iran’s Chabahar Free Trade Zone (CFTZ). The plant projected to come on-stream within the next 10 months is slated to produce 500tpd and 1000tpd of cement in the course of its first and second phases, respectively. Over 100 billion rials has been invested in the project. The surplus output from the plant will be exported to the countries in the region in particular, Persian Gulf littoral states, Iraq, Afghanistan a...

USTDA grant supports cement production in Afghanistan

23 September 2005, Published under Cement News

Support for reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan is the goal of a U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) grant awarded today to the Afghan Ministry of Mines and Industries. The US$1,200,000 grant will be used to partially fund a study that will facilitate the development of the cement industry in Afghanistan. "Cement is one of the building blocks of the Afghan reconstruction effort, and this cement study, which will look at the rehabilitation of existing plants, as well as the establi...