Cement News tagged under: Vietnam
Vietnam Jan-Feb sales up 6% YoY04 March 2016, Published under Cement NewsCompanies in Vietnam sold 9.44Mt of cement and clinker in the first two months of this year, rising six per cent from a year earlier and fulfilling 12.42 per cent of the whole-year target, the Building Material Department under the Ministry of Construction said. Of the sum, 7.26Mt of cement were sold at the domestic market, up nine per cent YoY, while 2.18Mt were exported, down three per cent YoY. In February the country’s cement sales fell 53 per cent from January and 4.4 per cent from... |
Vietnam output rises 15.8% in first two months01 March 2016, Published under Cement NewsVietnam produced 10.8Mt of cement in the first two months of this year, rising 15.8 per cent from a year earlier, the government-run General Statistics Office said. In February the country’s cement output rose 26.6 per cent YoY to 4.8Mt. The Ministry of Construction forecasts that Vietnam’s sales of cement and clinker will rise 4-7 per cent YoY to between 75-77Mt in 2016. |
Approval granted for new Quang Nam plant, Vietnam29 February 2016, Published under Cement NewsThaiGroup JSC has received approval from the Peoples’ Committee of Quang Nam province in Vietnam's central region to develop the second cement plant in the area. The company plans to build the plant on an area of 6.5ha in Thanh My town, Nam Giang district, Vietnam's Ministry of Construction said. The plant, named Thanh My 2 cement plant, will have a total investment of VND11trn (US$489m) and capacity of 12,500tpd of clinker. ThaiGroup, formerly known as Xuan Thanh Group JSC inaugurated it... |
Loan agreed for phase 2 of Song Lam cement plant24 February 2016, Published under Cement NewsThe Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) has agreed to lend the Hoang Phat Vissai Group VND7trn (US$311.11m), the lion's share of which will go towards developing the Song Lam cement plant in the central Vietnamese province of Nghe An. Under the agreement, which was signed at the 2016 Spring Meeting, VND6.02trn of the total will be used to develop Phase 2 of the Song Lam cement plant and VND965bn for the construction of international seaport project in Nghi Thiet commune, N... |
Siwertell delivers road-mobile unloaders for cement-handling operations in Libya & Vietnam05 February 2016, Published under Cement NewsSiwertell, part of Cargotec, has delivered two more of its 10 000 S road-mobile unloaders for cement unloading operations in Libya and Vietnam. The new trailer-based, diesel-powered machines are fitted with a double bellows system and dust filters and can handle cement at a rated capacity of 300tph. Following an order signed with Tenovar International Ltd in Malta in late June 2015, the first unloader was delivered promptly in August the same year. In February 2016 it will be commissioned ... |
Siam Cement Group eyes Vietnam expansion26 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsThailand's Siam Cement Group plans to expand its operations in Vietnam, especially in the cement and petrochemical sectors. "Our target is that we must have a cement factory here, but by when we still cannot say. We're studying if we should invest on our own or through a joint venture," Dhep Vongvanich, SCG's Vietnam executive director, told The Nation newspaper. Meanwhile, Vongvanich added that SCG would continue with the construction of the US$4.5bn Long Son integrated petrochemical... |
Vicem sales climb 4.2% in 201519 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsState-owned Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem), the country’s leading cement producer, said it sold about 22.97Mt of cement and clinker in 2015, rising 4.2 per cent from a year ago and fulfilling 96.3 per cent of the whole-year’s target. Of the volume, 20.87Mt of cement and clinker were sold in domestic market, up 11.2 per cent YoY, and 2.1Mt were exported, down 35.9 per cent. In 2015 Vicem’s clinker production climbed 3.8 per cent YoY to 17.12 Mt, while its cement output rose ... |
Vietnam sales up three per cent in 201515 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsCompanies in Vietnam sold 72.71Mt of cement and clinker in 2015, rising three per cent from a year earlier and exceeding the whole-year target by one per cent, the country's Ministry of Construction said. Of the total, 56.5Mt of cement were sold at the domestic market, up 11.1 per cent YoY, while 16.25Mt were exported, falling 17.3 per cent YoY and failing to realise the full-year export target of 20Mt. During the year the two cement plants were inaugurated, raising the total number of ... |
Vicem sets 2016 export target12 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsVietnam's largest cement producer, Vicem, has set an export target of 3Mt in 2016, comprising 1Mt of cement and 2Mt of clinker. In 2015 Vicem exported 2.1Mt, including 860,000t of cement and 1.245Mt of clinker. In the first 11 months of last year the state-owned corporation sold 20.06Mt of cement and clinker, up 2.9 per cent from a year earlier. |
Domestic deliveries drive Vicem's 11-month sales rise08 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsVietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem), the country’s leading cement producer, sold 20.06Mt of cement and clinker in the first 11 months of 2015, up 2.9 per cent from a year earlier. Of the volume, 16.99Mt of cement and clinker were sold in the domestic market, up 10.6 per cent YoY, and 3.07Mt were exported, down 39.6 per cent. In November the corporation sold 1.91Mt of cement and clinker, up 13.6 per cent YoY, of which 1.63Mt were made up of local sales (+19.4 per cent YoY), while ex... |