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Algeria: PM lays foundation stone for new plant28 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsPrime Minister of Algeria, Abdelmalek Sellal, on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of the project of a cement plant in the commune of El-Beidha, 170km north of Laghouat. The cement plant will have a capacity of 6000tpd, or 2Mta and is due to be commissioned in 32 months. It will be built in Djebel Laaleg over an area of 63ha and is the first of its kind in the region. The plant is owned by Algerian construction materials and mining group Groupement Amouda Engineering. The project rep... |
JK Cement halts production from Bagalkot unit, India28 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsJK Cement Works, in Bagalkot in Karnataka, has stopped production due to the damage caused by the roof of the clinker silo suddenly caving in, the company told the exchanges yesterday. To ensure safety and avoid collateral damage, the company has temporarily stopped clinker extraction and cement production at the unit, it said. Cement available in depots will serve the market for the time being and an alternative arrangement for operation of kiln has been initiated, which is expected to no... |
Cemex announces retirement of Vice President of Energy28 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsCemex has announced that its current Vice President of Energy, Luis R Faris Martinez will retire from office. He will leave the company with effect from 1 February 2016, said the cement company in a filing to the Mexican Stock Exchange. The company did not disclose the reasons for the separation nor who will take Mr Faris Martinez’s place. |
UK: new figures on coal ash show uptake continues to climb28 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsUKQAA (UK Quality Ash Association) – the representative organisation for the producers and users of coal ash in the UK – has released statistics on the production and uses of coal ash from 1999 to 2014. These figures span a decade and a half and highlight important trends in the supply and beneficial use of fly ash and furnace bottom ash by the construction and engineering sectors. Key findings are that while total supply exceeds demand, generally consumption of fly ash has increased from ... |
Jordan cement demand at 4Mta in 201528 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsJordan’s consumption of cement declined to 4Mt in 2015, down by 300,000t from a year earlier due to weaker construction activities and government projects, the head of the Future Society for Cement Traders, Mohammed Ghazi Abu Soufa, said. He added that production capacity of cement plants reached 10Mt. Only a small surplus is exported due to closing borders with Syria and Iraq. (Source: Mubasher Info) |
SFIC: French cement sector to stabilise in 201627 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsFrance's cement sector in 2016 is showing "some signs of optimism" and pointing therefore to a stabilisation of the markets after eight years of decline thanks to a pick-up in the housing segment, said Raoul de Parisot, president of the Syndicat français de l’industrie cimentière (SFIC). In 2015 the market contracted around 1Mt with consumption falling from 18Mt to 17.1Mt. In the 2007-15 demand dropped by around 30 per cent. “Our plants have capacity rates of between 65-70 per cent, which... |
Efforts to revive CCI unit underway, India27 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsThe state government of Hyderabad on Monday appointed a consultancy firm to prepare a draft DPR (Detailed Project Report) in an effort to revive the Cement Corporation of India's (CCI) factory in Adilabad district. The DPR will explore the funds required, available assets and the condition of equipment at the plant which has been closed since 1998. The government is said to be committed to the revival of the factory, according to Minister Jogu Ramanna. Following a recent meeting between ... |
South Africa: domestic cementitious volumes up 7.8% YoY27 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsDomestic cementitious volumes in South Africa increased by 7.8 per cent YoY to 3.6523Mt in the third quarter of 2015, according to an update posted on PPC’s website. Total year-to-date volumes were recorded at 9.602Mt. Meanwhile, PPC yesterday said cement sales over the first quarter (October-December 2015) of the current trading year in its South African business were down by 1.6 per cent, while the international businesses recorded an eight per cent drop including low-margin cement exp... |
PCA Regional Forecast: coasts to see strongest cement consumption growth26 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsPCA's recently released Winter 2015-16 State Forecast maintains expectations for the strongest rates of cement consumption growth to occur in the West with YoY growth of six per cent. The South (4.3 per cent) and Northeast (4.2 per cent) are expected to grow roughly in line with national averages for 2016. The Midwest (2.0 per cent), undermined by weak commodity prices, is projected to expand at a sub-national rate. On a Census Division basis, the Pacific (6.5 per cent), South Atlantic (6.3... |
Sumitomo Osaka 9M operating profit seen rising 11%26 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsJapanese cement producer Sumitomo Osaka Cement likely will report an 11 per cent rise in operating profit of around JPY17bn (US$142m) for the nine months ended in December, as lower coal prices lift profitability. The Nikkei reported that sales are expected to have increased by about two per cent to around JPY176bn as weaker demand in Japan amid a construction shortage was offset by exports to elsewhere in Asia. The company's high shipping costs in the year-earlier period due to probl... |