Cement News tagged under: international
Sugar Creek formally denied limestone mining expansion15 September 2009, Published under Cement NewsSugar Creek Planning and Zoning Commission members have formally denied Lafarge Sugar Creek from expanding its limestone mining operations. The Lafarge request included a zoning change and a special-use permit. The proposal died when the city’s Board of Aldermen said no to the zoning change. But the Planning Commission, which had voted 6-3 against the zoning change, had not officially acted on the permit request. It did Thursday night, voting unanimously to deny it – with the stipulation ... |
China long-waited industry policy out: Deutsche Bank comment15 September 2009, Published under Cement NewsThe Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China issued Entry Conditions for the Cement Industry (Draft for Comment) on 7 September 2009. According to a Deutsche Bank report, this is the first concrete policy to tackle the cement industry’s overcapacity. Key points include: - For provinces with new dry-process capacity accounting for >70% of the total capacity, new capacity each year must not exceed 10% of its total cement production in the previous yea... |
Cement prices in Lusaka rise, Zambia14 September 2009, Published under Cement NewsCement prices in Lusaka have shot up by between K35,000 and K40,000 amidst the continued suspension of operations by Lafarge Cement Zambia Plc, the country’s monopoly cement producer. And the National Construction Council (NCC) has said importing cement to plug the deficit caused by the suspension of operations at Lafarge Cement is not feasible due to increased construction activities in the region. A snap survey conducted yesterday revealed the scarcity of the Lafarge cement brand while i... |
Thailand: Public stimulus plays14 September 2009, Published under Cement NewsFor the government’s Bt1.43trn investment package to be disbursed over the next three years, the early phase of the plan to be spent in 4Q09 and early 2010 would focus on road and irrigation projects worth Bt30-40bn. As a result, Thai construction material counters have rallied significantly. Companies related to petroleum asphalt, long steel, pipe to transmit water supply, and last but not least cement significantly outperformed SET. In the cement space, a positive view is maintained for t... |
Romania’s 1H cement production down 28.8% YoY14 September 2009, Published under Cement NewsRomania’s cement production dropped by 28.8% in the first semester, at 3.5Mt, from 4.9Mt in the similar period a year earlier, the quantity being delivered exclusively on the local market, according to the cement companies’ association CIROM. The production of clinker stood at 2.6Mt in the January-June period, down 27% from 3.6 Mt in the same period a year ago. The sales volume of cement and clinker totaled 3.59Mt in the analysed period, down around 31% from 5.2Mt in the first six months o... |
Lafarge to challenge High Court decision, Zambia14 September 2009, Published under Cement NewsThe Supreme Court has set Wednesday this week for the inter-parte hearing in the matter in which Lafarge Cement Zambia is challenging the execution of the Kitwe High Court order for the company to pay over US$13m in environmental liabilities. According to summons dated September 9, Lafarge, who are the appellants, and the respondents, Citizens for a Better Environment (CBE), will appear before Deputy Chief Justice Irene Mambilima. Justice Mambilima will hear the application for stay of exe... |
U.S. recession impacts Canadian cement consumption14 September 2009, Published under Cement NewsThe deepening U.S. recession, global commodity and energy price weakness, combined with a less than confident Canadian consumer are offering more than enough recessionary drag on all provincial economies to impact Canadian cement consumption, according to a recent PCA forecast. Global deterioration in trade has hit Canada hard, particularly with the U.S., its main trading partner. PCA expects total portland cement consumption to decline 22.8 percent this year, followed by a 3.1 percent decl... |
Vietnam pushed to suspend licensing new cement projects14 September 2009, Published under Cement NewsThe Vietnam Cement Association has asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade to suspend licensing new cement projects, as the country is facing an oversupply, state media said Monday. "Vietnam may have a cement excess of 10 million tons by 2010, if all the plants operate at full capacity," association Chairman Nguyen Van Thien was quoted as saying in the Dau Tu newspaper. Vietnam now has 105 cement plants with combined capacity of 61Mta, while the country’s cement consumption is expected to... |
Cementos San Juan inaugurates plant, Chile14 September 2009, Published under Cement NewsChilean cement firm Cementos San Juan, controlled by Spanish group Cementos La Unión, has started production at its new plant in region V, local press reported. Following an investment of US$40mn, the company expects to increase production from 300,000tpa to 800,000tpa within 16 months. "We are going to start the project to expand the plant to 800,000tpa.We will start with buying the mill, then comes the engineering stage and then construction. We will take 16 months to start operations," ... |
Lilama to set up clinker line for Ha Tien Cement11 September 2009, Published under Cement NewsLilama 18, a subsidiary of the Vietnam Machinery Installation Corporation (Lilama), will install a clinker production line for Ha Tien 2 Cement Company in Mekong province of Kien Giang late September. The VND330 billion (US$18.3 m) line is expected to be completed in 19 months after which it will produce 1.26Mt of clinker annually. Under a contract signed September 9, Lilama will also supply materials and equipment. Lilama has fabricated and built some large thermal power plants like Phu... |