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France: cement demand up 1.7%, positive outlook for 201701 February 2017, Published under Cement NewsCement demand in France has increased 1.7 per cent to 17.4Mt in 2016, according to the French cement association, SFIC. The association expects this trend to continue in 2017 thanks to strong growth in housing construction. |
India: Birla rebrands Reliance Perfect Cement01 February 2017, Published under Cement NewsSince acquiring Reliance Cement Co, Birla Corporation Ltd has rebranded the Reliance Perfect Cement brand as MP Birla Perfect Cement and launched it in the central Indian market. Kolkata-based MP Birla Group has also introduced MP Birla Perfect Cement onsite vans. These vans will be manned by experts who will provide technical information about cement and concrete and will also offer testing facilities at construction sites. Construction companies can call these vans to their project site... |
Spain: domestic cement consumption falls 3.1% in 201631 January 2017, Published under Cement NewsSpain's total cement consumption for 2016 reached 11,140,639t, down more than 350,000t compared to 2015 and representing a 3.1 per cent YoY fall. December's monthly figure was equally as poor, down 3.8 per cent YoY to 804,372t. Disappointing domestic sales were offset, albeit only in part, by a growth in export volumes of 5.6 per cent to 9,782,631t. "After almost a decade of deep crisis, the outlook for 2017 is very worrying," explains the president of Oficemen, Jaime Ru... |
Tajikistan exports 0.3Mt of cement in 201627 January 2017, Published under Cement NewsIn 2016 Tajikistan exported 300,000t of cement, mainly to Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, according to Tajik Minister of Industry and New Technologies, Shavkat Bobozoda. Over the first nine months of last year, Tajikistan sent 35,000t of cement to Uzbekistan. Previously Tajikistan exported cement only to Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan. Over the report period, Tajikistan sent 96,000t of cement to Afghanistan and 30,000t of cement to Kyrgyzstan. Besides, Tajikistan exported 65t of ceme... |
Oficemen: plant closure possibility if power price continues to rise27 January 2017, Published under Cement NewsOficemen warned of a potential closure of cement plants and stoppages if the price of electricity in Spain continues to rise and cement production becomes more expensive, endangering the competitiveness of Spanish cement in the export markets. Power accounts for around 30 per cent of production costs. "If the export market is not viable due to the increase in electricity costs, we will not be able to maintain production levels as they are now and plants dedicated to exports will be closed... |
Spanish cement market contracts 3.1% in 201626 January 2017, Published under Cement NewsCement demand in Spain closed at 11,140,639t in 2016, representing a 3.1 per cent YoY fall, according to Oficemen, the country's cement association. In December, domestic cement consumption dropped 3.8 per cent to 804,372t when compared with December 2015. Exports have to some extent offset the contraction of the Spanish market, rising 5.6 per cent YoY to 9,732,631t. Oficemen expects the market to stagnate in 2017 with growth below one per cent, depending on the trend in residential c... |
Egypt: Misr Beni Suef Cement postpones coal mill26 January 2017, Published under Cement NewsMisr Beni Suef Cement Company has postponed the installation of a coal mill at its Beni Suef plant to the 3Q17. The coal mill is expected to cost EGP18m (US$0.96m). Managing Director, Farouk Mostafa, said the company had intended to install the mill in December 2016 but was forced to postpone due to the shortage in US dollars needed to import the mill and its spare parts, as well as the fall-out from the decision to float the Egyptian pound, which caused prices to hike. He explained that ... |
Pakistan: construction of US$245m Haripur cement plant gets go-ahead25 January 2017, Published under Cement NewsThe chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pervez Khattak, has approved plans to invest US$245m in the construction of a cement plant in Haripur, The Dawn reports. The moves comes as part of a wider package of measures intended to support projects relating to the China-Pakistan economic corridor. At this point, no further details concerning the size of the plant or the operator have been released. Other projects which received funding at the same time are to be offered to Chinese firms ... |
Rising cement prices signal economic growth in China24 January 2017, Published under Cement NewsRising cement prices were providing a clear signal that China's economic growth will remain stable for the year ahead, said Mo Ji, chief economist for Asia ex-Japan at Amundi in an interview with CNBC. Cement offers a more accurate gauge of China's economic activity given its short shelf life. "It can only be stored one month. If there is no on-the-ground activity, how can the cement prices go up? It's really demand," she said, adding that meant infrastructure and other construction was ... |
Jordan: AUCBM opens regional office in Amman24 January 2017, Published under Cement NewsThe Arab Union for Cement and Building Materials (AUCBM) is opening a regional office in Amman. The office is headed by Eng Khaled Tarawneh, gneral manager of Arab Company for White Cement Industry and AUCBM board member. "The opening of the regional office is an important step towards supporting AUCBM General Secretariat to serve member companies, particularly in the field of training employees and workers in cement factories as well as organising the events adopted by AUCBM Board of Direc... |