Cement News tagged under: capacity expansion
UltraTech Cement02 March 2016, Published under Cement NewsGrasim Industries is reportedly planning to spend IDR40bn (US$584.3m) on capacity expansions over the coming financial year, with IDR38bn of this earmarked for its subsidiary UltraTech Cement. Over the past year UltraTech has worked hard to reduce its operational costs, bringing them down by over two per cent through its use of multiple fuels. The cement producer has also benefitted from the fall in petcoke prices which have declined from around US$74/t in August last year to US$38/t. In the... |
Anhui Conch26 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsWith cement demand shrinking in its home market, Anhui Conch is ramping up its business overseas. In January-September 2015, China reported a five per cent YoY fall in cement production thanks to its cooling economy and slowing infrastructure investment at home. With its domestic market also suffering from chronic oversupply, Anhui has its eyes firmly set on the Southeast Asia market. April this year will mark the opening of four plants by Anhui in Indonesia with a total production capac... |
Dangote Cement26 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsDangote Cement has reaffirmed its commitment to invest in a new cement works in Zimbabwe. Work on the planned 1.5Mta integrated plant will reportedly begin this year at a cost of around US$400m. This follows the formation of Dangote Cement Zimbabwe in September last year. The precise location of the plant is yet to be confirmed. Concerns were raised late last year when Zimbabwe was left off a list of countries the company was intending to invest in during an interview with Reuters. This l... |
Algeria: GICA breaks production record in 201514 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsGroups industrial des cements d’Algérie (GICA) broke its production record in 2015 when it manufactured 12,143,557t of cement, up five per cent when compared with its output of 11,55,280t in 2014. The volumes produced by the group’s 12 cement plants were “all sold in the domestic market, thereby honouring all orders and requirements expressed by the construction market,” said GICA. In the first 10 days of 2016, the group has produced 269,128t and sold 241,248t or 90 per cent of its ou... |
Votorantim05 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsVotorantim subsidiary St Mary’s Cement is proposing to spend around US$130m to a kiln expansion and modernisation programme at its works at Charlevoix, Michigan, USA. This is expected to increase the capacity from the current 1.4Mta to 2Mta. Elsewhere, Votorantim’s Spanish subsidiary, Cementos Cosmos, has celebrated three accident-free years as the parent company spent in excess of EUR1m to improve the company’s health and safety record. |
Algeria’s GICA plans to produce 23Mt in 201904 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsAlgerian cement producer, Groupe Industriel des ciments d’Algerie (GICA) expects to increase its cement capacity in four plants and build a further two works. This will raise capacity from the current 11.5Mta to 23Mta in 2019. Expansion projects at the works of Aïn Kebira and Chlef are forecast to be completed in September this year, increasing capacity to 1.5Mta. As a result, GICA expects to replace the 3.5Mt of imports by national output by the end of the year. Moreover, Zahana and ... |
Mexico: Cruz Azul opens second Palmar de Bravo line14 December 2015, Published under Cement NewsMexico's Cooperative la Cruz Azul recently opened a second production line at its Palmar de Bravo cement works, operated by its subsidiary CYCNA de Oriente. "CYCNA Orient today reaches 100 per cent of its design capacity. Previously this plant produced 1.2Mta of cement, but with the second line an additional 1.5Mta can be manufactured, giving a total of 2.7Mta, “said Guillermo Alvarez Cuevas, CEO of Cooperativa La Cruz Azul. |
Dangote Cement01 December 2015, Published under Cement NewsDangote Cement is to double capacity at its Oromia plant in Ethiopia, according to local press reports. The plant, which currently has a production capacity of 2.5Mta, will receive a US$450m investment to extend the plant on a 36ha plot of land the company has obtained near the plant’s site in Mugher, around 85km from the capital Addis Ababa. The company reportedly requested the land from Oromia Investment Commission in September this year. Plans also include a new bag factory to supply p... |
PT Semen Indonesia01 December 2015, Published under Cement NewsDespite a number of government infrastructure projects finally getting underway, Semen Indonesia does not expect its 2015 sales to exceed the 26.6Mt recorded last year. January to October 2015 saw the company’s cement sales fall by two per cent, compared to the same period in the previous year. October alone, however, saw sales pick up by 10 per cent to 2.7Mt, compared to the previous month. This mirrors recent data from the Indonesian Cement Association, which reported a 10.7 per cent advan... |
Cementos Argos28 October 2015, Published under Cement NewsCementos Argos has placed an order with ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions to construct a new 4300tpd clinker line. The contract is reportedly worth around US$115m. Due to come online at the end of 2017, the facility is to be built in Sogamoso, around 200km north-east of the capital Bogotá. ThyssenKrupp is supplying all the components for the new line, along with quality assurance and monitoring systems. These include a 1200tph primary crusher for limestone, a 500tph secondary crusher for ... |