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Nepal: moves to facilitate production17 November 2014, Published under Cement NewsThe government of Nepal has said it will expand access roads to 11 cement plants and supply electricity to eight factories during the current fiscal to facilitate cement production. "Access road will be expanded from factories to the limestone mines of the respective factories," said Jeet Bahadur Thapa, joint secretary of the Ministry of Industry (MoI), adding. The move continues a policy introduced by the government in FY2008-09 to build the necessary infrastructure like access roads, ... |
Siam Cement to equip new Indonesian plant with WHR technology17 November 2014, Published under Cement NewsSiam Cement Group (SCG) has announced that its new Indonesian plant in Sukabumi, West Java, will be equipped with a waste heat power generation (WHG) system which could reduce energy use by up to 30 per cent. "At the Sukabumi plant, we will use the same technology, the WHG system, that we have been using at our plant in Lampang province in Thailand," SCG president and CEO Kan Trakulhoon told the Jakarta Post on the sidelines of the 2014 ASEAN Sustainability Development Symposium in Bangkok,... |
Paraguay: cement price decrease expected17 November 2014, Published under Cement NewsJorge Méndez, head of Paraguay’s Industria Nacional del Cemento (INC), announced a drop in cement prices for 2015-16. At present the price of a 50kg bag of cement is PYG42,000, but next year is expected to see the price fall to PYG35,000. The upcoming change has been attributed to production process modifications such as the plant’s new dryers and fuel switch at the Vallemí works. |
Bolivia: Potosi plant ruled out17 November 2014, Published under Cement NewsBolivia’s president, Evo Morales, ruled out the building of a cement plant in Quiburi, Potosi. The new works was expected to cost US$401m, including the building of a pipeline that feeds the plant. However, the project was postponed indefinitely although Empresa Pública Productiva Cementos de Bolivia (Ecebol) launched an international tender in February 2012 for the construction and commissioning of the plant. |
KHD nine-month revenue down 4.6% YoY14 November 2014, Published under Cement NewsKHD Humboldt Wedag reported a 4.6 per cent decline in revenue for the first nine months of 2014, with the group reporting an “unsatisfactory” order intake under its Capex segment during the period. In the first nine months of 2014, KHD’s order intake was EUR80.2m, slightly below the previous year’s level at EUR82.8m. The Parts & Services* segment contributed EUR41.8m, more than half of the total value. As its recently-won order in Russia’s Kaluga region (totalling more than EUR90m) co... |
Kenyan production climbs 15.2 per cent YoY14 November 2014, Published under Cement NewsCement production in Kenya rose by 15.2 per cent as consumption in the east African country surges, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics. The country’s six cement manufacturers produced 4.24Mt in the period, up from 3.68Mt in the comparative period of the previous year. The surge in production has been partly attributed to increased capacity as the industry opened its doors to recent entrants, such as Savannah Cement, National Cement and Mombasa Cement. Consumpt... |
Holcim Awards 2014 winners for Asia Pacific14 November 2014, Published under Cement NewsThe winning projects of the Holcim Awards 2014 Asia Pacific have been announced in Jakarta, Indonesia, with a bird sanctuary in Thailand, a locally-adapted orphanage in Nepal and a community library in Sri Lanka received the top prizes. "The winning submissions demonstrate the development of multi-disciplinary responses to the challenges facing design and building," Holcim said in a statement. Protective Wing: a bird sanctuary in northern Thailand that serves as both an educational... |
Cuba: Cienfuegos reserves sufficient for Karl Marx plant14 November 2014, Published under Cement NewsThe quarries of Cienfuegos province, Cuba, have reserves for some 150 years and thus ensure the continued operation for the Karl Marx cement plant, the country’s largest cement producer, according to ACN, the Cuban news agency. There are currently four quarries in operation, producing limestone, marl, zeolites and pellets. They are extracting around 500tph of rock, although they are affected by spare part shortages, caused by lack of funding, which impacts six loaders. |
Semen Indonesia upbeat on 2015 outlook14 November 2014, Published under Cement NewsSemen Indonesia expects cement demand to increase by as much as eight per cent on the back of an improving political environment, the company’s president director, Dwi Soetjipto, has said. Speaking to the Jakarta Post, Dwi said: "With the political situation hopefully becoming more stable next year, I think demand should grow in the range of 7-8 per cent by volume," Soetjipto said in an interview in Jakarta Wednesday. Indonesia's largest cement producer is planning to spend more than US$7... |
Eurocement and Sinoma sign modernisation contracts13 November 2014, Published under Cement NewsEurocement Group and Sinoma International Engineering Co have signed an agreement for the modernisation of three plants at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing. The contracts cover the construction of dry-process cement lines at the Kavkazcement, Belgorodsky Cement and Oskolcement plants in Russia. All the lines will have a clinker capacity of 6200tpa (3Mta) and each contract is worth US$$93.3m. Earlier in May, Eurocement signed six contracts to build new facto... |