Cement News tagged under: international
APCAC Conference Trinidad27 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsIn his role as APCAC President, Christian Agnes of Lafarge Ciments Antilles had the pleasure of opening the APCAC XXI Technical Conference 2004 held at the Trinidad Hilton Hotel, Port of Spain. More than 140 delegates are attending the meeting which runs from 25-28 October and has two full days of technical papers on cement manufacturing and an exhibition of some 20 stands. Christian said: “This meeting of APCAC is not only an opportunity for technical exchange, but also on occasion to me... |
Cimpor To Buy 54% stake in Mat Atlantico26 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsCimpor-Cimentos de Portugal said Monday it has agreed to buy a 54 per cent stake in Spain’s Materiales del Atlantico for EUR4.55m. In a statement, Cimpor said the transaction will be carried out by its Spanish unit Corporacion Noroeste SA, and is subject to approval by the Spanish competition authority. Materiales del Atlantico operates in the Coruna-Galiza region, with a cement mill in Naron. It sells between 250,000t and 300,000t a year. |
Spanish Goliat to invest26 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsSpanish cement maker Goliat, a subsidiary of Italian sector company Italcementi, will invest Euro 80m ($102.2 mln) in the modernisation of its factory in Malaga, Andalusia region, southern Spain, it was reported on October 22, 2004. The investments are aimed at reducing thermal power consumption by 14 per cent, cutting the anhydride emissions by 7.0 per cent, dust particle emissions by 68 per cent and greenhouse gas emissions by 15 per cent. The company will install a new kiln, a new vertica... |
India’s Somani Cement to build new plant26 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsSomani Cement Company Ltd. is planning to set up a new 360,000tpa cement plant in India’s Gujarat state, the firm’s managing director said on Monday. The company will invest about 1.5 billion rupees to build the plant in Mahuva in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district and has obtained a mining license for about 680 hectares of limestone fields, Bimlesh Mishra, Somani Cement’s managing director, told Reuters. He said the company was in talks with a non-resident Indian group for raising funds for the... |
Lipetskcement statistics26 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsRussian cement producer Lipetskcement produced 1.3Mt of cement in Jan-Sept 2004, a 8.6 per cent rise against in the same period 2003. Packed cement output was around 185,000 tons (+12.7 per cent). In 2003 the plant made more than 1.5Mt of cement, up 3.2 per cent from 2002, Eurocement press service reported. |
Holcim invests in La Cemento26 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsThe Ecuadorian Cement company La Cemento Nacional has changed its name to Holcim Ecuador. The Swiss group Holcim entered La Cemento in 1976 as a minority shareholder, but since October 5th the multinational, through its subsidiary in Ecuador, holds a 77 per cent stake in the company. Holcim has invested US$7.5m in the acquisition and set up of two machines, each one with capacity to pack 3600 sacks of cements per hour, or 3000t per day. |
Polysius commissions two 10,000-tpd kiln lines in China26 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsKrupp Polysius has just commissioned the second kiln line for Anhui Conch, in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, making the completion of the two 10,000tpd Polysius kiln completions for China’s largest cement producer in just four months. The speed of completion of this order has been very noteworthy. Whereas for the first kiln line was erected in Wuhu in just 24 months between contract award and commissioning, the excellent teamwork between the contractual parties made it possible to reduce this... |
Lucky Cement’s expansion programme26 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsLucky Cement, Pakisatan is planning to build an additional production line of 8400tpd at its existing Site in Bannu Division. The company has already entered into agreements with the suppliers of machinery in China & Europe. Necessary Letters of Credits have been established and the civil work is in full swing. It is hoped that the new capacity will be in full production before December 2005. The company has also decided to build a Green Field Plant with a capacity to produce 8400tpd of ... |
Cemex: Mexican margins down25 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsFor the first nine months of 2004, Cemex increased its operating profit at the EBITDA level by 19.1% to US$1,873.14m, with the trading profit (EBIT) pushing ahead by 25.7% to US$1,376.1m on a turnover 11.3% higher at US$5885.2m. While EBITDA margins declined in Mexico and in Venezuela, they improved in most other markets. The net debt at the end of September was down by 17.6%, compared with the same time last year, to US$4,679m and the interest cover improved from 5.02 times to 6.72 times. ... |
Unknown fate for Cement Corp factories25 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsDespite a history of riots, worker deaths and a clamour for voluntary redundancies, Indian state government is unmoved to privatise three factories of Cement Corporation: Dala, Chunar and Churk . The three loss-making factories hit headlines in 1991 when the then Mulayam government had made an abortive bid to sell them in private hands. About nine workers were killed in police firing during an angry protest in Chunar forcing the then government to scrap the deal. A lock-out was declared... |