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FCC unit to invest US$180m on US plant17 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsCementos Portland Valderrivas said it plans to invest – US$180m to upgrade its cement plant at Bath in the state of Pennsylvania. The unit of construction group Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC) said the move will allow the factory to increase its output by 50 per cent with lower energy costs and less environmental pollution. The new project will bring Cementos Portland’s total investment in the United States to date to US$800m. |
TCC aims for No.3 spot, China17 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsThe year 2008 would be a guidepost year for the Taiwan Cement Corp (TCC) as a development pillars of fast growth, said Leslie Koo, chairman of Taiwan Cement Group. At that time, TCC will squeeze into the list of the top-three cement producers in mainland China. TCC will scramble for the position as the largest producer of cement in the southern China region and the mainland’s third-largest producer of cement in 2008. TCC is already the mainland’s third-largest cement producer with an ... |
Growth on cement market continues to slow, Hungary17 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsHungary’s cement market continued to slow in 2005, for the second year in a row, according to Hungarian press. Hungarian businesses used 4.1Mt of cement in 2005, according to preliminary estimates by the industry’s biggest companies, compared to 4Mt in 2004 and 3.9m in 2003. Cement imports were around 1Mt last year, level with imports in 2004, but imports from Ukraine fell from 760,000t to between 600,000 and 630,000t. Cement imports from the Ukraine jumped in 2002 when they jumped to... |
Yanbu Cement boosts annual capacity, Saudi Arabia17 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsSaudi cement producer Yanbu Cement Company (YCC) has raise its annual capacity to 4.8Mt from 3.6Mt, the company said. The expansion is expected to boost the company’s profit for 2006 and especially for the first quarter of the year. Most of YCC’s production is marketed locally. |
Less dust, fewer jobs as Essroc keeps word17 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsAs promised years ago, four outdated kilns at Essroc Cement Corp.’s Plant III on West Prospect Street stopped spinning last month. The shutdown means less dust is settling on its neighbors and almost 60 people have stopped going to work at the former Lone Star plant. Rather than equipping Plant III with modern environmental protection devices, Essroc agreed to stop using the kilns to make clinker on Dec. 31. Recent upgrades at Plant I, the eastern-most of the three plants along Route 2... |
Cemex increases local cement prices16 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsCemex increased domestic Mexican cement prices on Friday by an average six per cent to offset higher production and power costs, a company executive said. Revenues for Cemex, the top producer in Mexico, are heavily influenced by price increases. Sales in Mexico currently are calculated to represent 20 per cent of total sales which were $4.3bn in the third quarter. Mexican sales had a higher weighting prior to last year’s acquisition of Britain’s ready mix concrete maker RMC for US$5.8bn. ... |
Birla Corp commissions second cement unit16 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsBirla Corporation Ltd today commissioned its second cement unit in Durgapur, with a capacity of 1Mta at an investment of Rs 75 crore. The Durga Hitech Cement plant, a sister unit of 0.6Mta Durgapur Cement Works, was inaugurated by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee. With the commissioning of the new plant, the Durgapur unit of the company becomes the largest single location cement manufacturing unit in the state, company Chairman R S Lodha said. The MP Birla group f... |
Cyprus cement sales rise16 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsCement sales in Cyprus increased 3.4 per cent year-on-year in 2005, totalling 1.58Mt, according to data by the National Statistics Service Cystat, published on January 13, 2006.Domestic cement sales grew 18 per cent on the year in 2004. Cement sales in December 2005 rose 3.2 per cent year-on-year, totalling 131,800t. Cement sales in the local market are expected to mark a slight increase in 2006 due to the implementation of public projects, according to local analysts. |
Chettinad Cement to increase capacity16 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsChettinad Cement Corporation, India plans add an additional capacity of 500,000t at its Dindugal plant in Tamil Nadu, taking the total plant capacity to 1.7Mt. The company is setting up a grinding unit to utilise the idle clinker capacity with an estimated investment of Rs 50 crore, according to sources. The additional capacity has been necessitated due to an increased demand for the commodity in southern region, particularly in Tamil Nadu and the expected huge gap in demand and supply in the... |
Inekon Group to build Iraqi cement works16 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsInekon Group, located in the Czech Republic will start implementing a project worth Euro 328m this year involving supplies for a cement works to be built in the north of Iraq, the biggest contract of a Czech company in the new history of Iraq, Inekon Group has said in a press release. The final contract with a private investor, S. J. Company of Iraq, was signed recently. The Czech cabinet contributed Euro 660,000 or CZK to support the project. The contract counts on raising the plant’s ou... |