Cement News tagged under: international
Italy Italsigma Plant Starts Working25 July 2005, Published under Cement NewsThe plant of Italian concrete admixtures producer Italsigma has started working at full capacity, the company said. Italsigma is a joint venture between Italian concrete admixtures supplier Axim Italcementi Group, part of the cement producer and distributor Italcementi SpA, and local chemical company 3V Sigma. The plant will produce 15,000t naphthalene sulphonate yearly. The facility is located in Marghera, the northern province of Venice. |
CSN steps into cement market22 July 2005, Published under Cement NewsThe proposed new business of Brazilian entrepreneur Benjamin Steinbruch, majority shareholder and chairman of steelmaker CSN (Companhia Siderurgica Nacional) is reportedly moving ahead. The cement manufacturing plant that CSN has planned for nearly one year depends only in the final negotiations to determine its location. The company is negotiating the final details with Volta Redonda city government (Rio de Janeiro). In a first stage the project will be limited to the slag and clinker grind... |
Siberian Cement news22 July 2005, Published under Cement NewsIn the first half of 2005, Siberian Cement Holdings produced 1.4Mt of cement, the company’s President Andrey Muraviev said. In total, the official was quoted as saying that by the end of 2005 the company plans to produce more than 3Mt of cement. In particular, Topkinsky Cement produced 705,500t of cement (in the same period 2004 - 610,000t), Krasnoyarsk Cement - 323,000t (159,000t). In 1H 2005 the Volna works also produced 76,000t of roofing slates (in the same period 2004 - 51,000t), Pre... |
New Laos cement factory nears completion22 July 2005, Published under Cement NewsA project to build a cement factory with the capacity to produce 2500tpd is nearing completion. Work on the factory, located at Ban Nalaokham in the Mahasay district of Khammouane province, Laos, commenced in December 2004 and contractors expect to have completed the project later this year. It is expected that the factory will be ready to be officially opened and commence work by November this year. Mr Khamphone Phimasone, the project’s national coordinator said, in a recent intervie... |
Polish cement output drops22 July 2005, Published under Cement NewsCement production in Poland fell to 4.9Mt in the first half of 2005, from 5.3Mt in the first half of 2004, the country’s association of cement producers SPC said. The country’s clinker production dropped 8.0 per cent year-on-year to 3.6Mt from January to June 2005, SPC added. The sales of cement slided 11 per cent year-on-year, while clinker sales grew 21.6 per cent year-on-year in the first six months of 2005. The country’s cement exports grew 56.6 per cent year-on-year and clinker exports r... |
Cemex net gains after RMC buyout21 July 2005, Published under Cement NewsCemex posted a better-than-expected 197 per cent increase in quarterly net profit following its $5.8bn takeover of Britain’s ready-mix concrete producer RMC. Cemex said on Wednesday its April-June net profit was $733m versus $247m in the same period a year earlier and higher than a Reuters survey of analysts that forecast a bottom line of $634m. In March, Cemex bought Britain’s RMC, which strengthened its business base in Europe and doubled sales. Until 12 months elapse from the takeover, ... |
South African cement sales boom21 July 2005, Published under Cement NewsCement sales for the first half of 2005 rose by 10.3 per cent year-on-year (y/y) to 5,496,523t, the Cement and Concrete Institute (CNCI) reported. The increase in June was 6.9 per cent y/y to 1,071,682t after May’s 8.1 per cent y/y rise to 1,016,043t after April’s large 28 per cent surge to 971,604t. Cement sales rose only 2.1 per cent y/y in March 2005 to 924,652t. Cement sales in South Africa rose by 17.4 per cent in 2004 to a record 10.69Mt compared with a 7.0 per cent rise in 2003. Ex... |
ACC’s expansion project21 July 2005, Published under Cement NewsThe Chief Minister of Jharkhand today inaugurated the modernization and expansion project of ACC’s Chaibasa Cement Works. The project comprises replacement of the earlier plant which was based on the old wet process technology with a new state-of-the-art clinkering unit of 1.2Mta together with a captive power plant of 15MW. Chaibasa Cement Works is located in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. It is predominantly a tribal belt containing the Kolhan and Chhota Nagpur regions. This is the on... |
Indonesia June cement consumption up21 July 2005, Published under Cement NewsIndonesia’s cement consumption, an indicator of economic activity, rose 6.7 per cent by volume in June from a year earlier, the country’s largest cement maker said on Thursday. State-controlled PT Semen Gresik said Southeast Asia’s largest economy used 2.76Mt of the building material last month, up from 2.59Mt a year before. Domestic sales of Semen Gresik alone rose 7.4 per cent to 1.23Mt. Including exports, total Gresik sales rose 6.9 per cent to 1.47Mt, the firm said. Last year, Indo... |
Holcim Maroc starts grinding upgrade21 July 2005, Published under Cement NewsThe Moroccan Minister of Industry, Trade and Economic Restructuring, Salah Eddine Mezouar, officially inaugurated on July 18, 2005 the capacity extension works at the grinding unit of cement company Holcim Maroc S.A. in Nador, northwestern Morocco. The extension project consists in setting up an additional grinding facility with a capacity of 60tph. The aim of the move is to raise Nador unit’s production capacity to 600,000tpa. The project required credits of some 54 mln Moroccan dirhams (US... |