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Two hurt in cement plant fire01 December 2005, Published under Cement NewsUS Federal mining officials are investigating the cause of an explosion and fire at a cement plant outside Branford late Monday that sent two employees to a hospital burn unit (reports the Sun Sentinel). The incident at Suwannee American Cement happened at about 11:45 p.m. Monday according to Suwannee County Sheriff Tony Cameron. US Mine Safety and Health Administration inspectors were at the plant Tuesday afternoon trying to determine what happened at the two-year-old plant and why. The... |
Cement demand could be at peak30 November 2005, Published under Cement NewsThe current South African cement boom, driven largely by the consumer-housing boom, is possibly at its peak, commented Aveng CEO Carl Grim yesterday. Grim, addressing media and analysts during a site tour, indicated that consumer spend was already showing signs of a slowdown. He cited the slowdown in passenger car sales, as an example, and also indicated that house-price growth had halved during the year, an indication of a downturn in economic demand. While the company, which has not yet... |
Ambuja Cement to invest in second grinding unit30 November 2005, Published under Cement NewsAmbuja Eastern Cement Limited (ACEL), which made a spectacular turnaround after being taken over by Gujarat Ambuja Cements, has announced to invest Rs 115 crore for setting up a 1Mta grinding plant at Farakka in Murshidabad for capacity expansion. The new unit would utilise fly ash produced from National Thermal Power Corporation’s (NTPC) super thermal power plant located in the region, ACEL Managing Director Harshvardhan Neotia told reporters here. Neotia also said clinker would be sour... |
Jordan Cement takes first step in oil shale utilisation30 November 2005, Published under Cement NewsUnder an agreement signed with the Natural Resources Authority (NRA), the Jordan Cement Factories Company (JCFC) will utilize oil shale from the Lajoon area in Karak. NRA Director General Maher Hijazeen signed the MoU in behalf of the authority while JCFC General Manager Rasheed Ben Yakhlouf represented the company. To finalise an industrial experiment, the JCFC has expressed willingness to use 56,000t of the Lajoon oil shale to produce cement. The company will conduct this trial to identify... |
Thai Court approves TPI Polene Debt extension30 November 2005, Published under Cement NewsThailand’s Central Bankruptcy Court Tuesday approved a one-year extension of TPI Polene PCL’s debt restructuring plan to the end of 2006, Prasert Ittimakin, TPI’s senior vice president for finance and accounting, said. Creditors of the company, Thailand’s third-largest cement maker by sales and capacity, earlier agreed to the extension of the debt plan, he said. The company had petitioned the court for the extension, saying it is not ready to exit the debt plan by the end of this year as ea... |
Pakistan plant in production next year30 November 2005, Published under Cement NewsPakistan Cement Company (PCC) will go into regular production from April next year after a lapse of long ten and a half years of this plant’s set up. PCC chief financial officer, Shafquat Mahmood told Geo that this plant would be producing 6000t of cement per day and that would make it the largest plant of the country. Pakistan Cement was earlier known as Chakwal Cement and had much of the required equipment delivered to the site before construction was halted by the owners. Egyptian Group, O... |
US cement forecasts29 November 2005, Published under Cement NewsExperts predict cement consumption this year to increase more than five per cent over 2004 levels, despite this year’s hurricanes. Residential construction is expected to decline due to raising mortgage rates in 2006; however, increases in commercial construction and public works construction will more than offset the residential slowdown and provide a net cement consumption gain in 2006. Closely in line with its summer, pre-Katrina forecast, the Portland Cement Association (PCA) Fall 20... |
CP Cimento sale likely29 November 2005, Published under Cement NewsCP Cimento is now reportedly up for sale. The indebted and loss-making cement maker is Brazil’s seventh largest with a five per cent market share and operates four plants in the populous South-east. Lafarge, which owns a small stake in the family-controlled company, as well as Cimpor and Camargo Corrêa may bid for some if not all of the CP Cimento assets. |
Eurocement produces more cement29 November 2005, Published under Cement NewsMoscow: the Eurocement Group produced 19.7Mt of cement in the first 10 months of 2005 including output from the two Ukrainian enterprises of the group produced in the same period more than 2.4Mt. The capacity of the holding is now estimated at 33Mt, the company’s press service reported to the Russian press. |
Cemento Melón plans investment for 200629 November 2005, Published under Cement NewsChilean cement company Cemento Melón, which is owned by Lafarge,has plans to invest some US$12m in 2006, newspaper La Segunda quoted the company’s finance director Joao Pereira as saying. From the total amount, US$10m would be invested in maintenance and optimizing the company’s current installations. The remaining US$2m will be spent on building a cement milling plant at Region X city Puerto Montt. The plant’s environmental impact study has already been approved by regional environmenta... |