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Indocement to invest US$109m on expansion09 May 2012, Published under Cement NewsPT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa, part of the HeidelbergCement group, is to spend more than IDR1trn (US$109m) this year on expansion, according to reports in the Jakarta Post. Following the company’s annual and extraordinary shareholders meeting on Tuesday, director Kuky Permana, said that one of the company’s main projects would be the construction of a new 4.4Mta plant in Citereup, Bogor, West Java. Indocement would also construct cement mills with a total capacity of 1.9Mt, he said. I... |
Semen Bosowa begins construction of East Java plant, Indonesia08 May 2012, Published under Cement NewsPT Semen Bosowa has started the construction of its 1.2Mta cement factory in East Java with a groundbreaking ceremony in the presence of Indonesia’s Industry Minister MS Hidayat , the Jakarta Post reports. This is the company’s third cement plant and will be located in Banyawangi. The company plans to serve the eastern parts of Java in addition to Bali and Nusa Tenggara. “PT Semen Bosowa will have a positive impact on those areas by stabilising cement prices through improvements in the... |
Algeria state-owned production targets08 May 2012, Published under Cement NewsCement production by 12 state-owned cement works under Algeria’s industrial cement group, GICA, is expected to reach 29Mt by 2020, according to the CEO of Centre of Research and Technical Services of Building Material Industry (CETIM). “GICA group’s investment programme in the next eight years worth more than US$4bn is aimed at increasing production capacities of some cement works and building new ones,” Abdennour Adjtoutah said at the sidelines of building fair, BATIMATEC. With the ad... |
Argentine April shipments decline08 May 2012, Published under Cement NewsArgentine shipments (including exports) in April 2012 fell 17.9% from the previous month to 798,513t, data from the Argentine cement association, AFCP, shows. Compared to April 2011, shipments were down 16.5%. Domestic sales, including imports, reached 782,379t, a YoY drop of 17.9 per cent. |
Pakistan domestic sales rise, exports fall08 May 2012, Published under Cement NewsFigures from the All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association showed that total cement dispatches for the first 10 months of the current fiscal were 26.64Mt, 3.31 per cent higher than the corresponding period of the last fiscal. While domestic sales during this period increased 8.51 per cent exports registered a decline of 8.91 per cen. Exports from the south showed a steeper decline of 15 per cent YoY much of which is attributed to lower exports via sea, which can be explained by excess... |
Indian cement sector turns to US high-sulphur coal07 May 2012, Published under Cement NewsShree Cement and Ultratech have taken one cargo of US high-sulphur coal, with others set to follow suit, as the Indian cement sector seeks a cheaper alternative to the increasingly scarce petcoke. India's coal imports are set to grow rapidly to over 100Mt of thermal coal this year, most of it from Indonesia and South Africa destined for power generators. The cement sector is a smaller but significant consumer of imports. Some Indian end-users are likely to turn to the very high-sulphur Ill... |
China Resources Cement prices weaken in1Q201207 May 2012, Published under Cement NewsChina Resources Cement Holdings Ltd, the largest cement producer in South China, saw its average sales price decline 6% or RMB20/t Y-on-Y to RMB340/t in the first quarter of this year, noted Deputy Chairman Yu Zhongliang. Yu noted that the firm's gross margin narrowed to 20% during the low season. But he believes the company gross margin would reach 30% this year, as sales prices began to rebound at the beginning of April. Sales volume surged 33% from a year earlier in the first quarter ... |
RNB capex completed, India07 May 2012, Published under Cement NewsRNB Cements completed its cement manufacturing expansion from 600tpd to 1200tpd at Barapani Industrial Area, district Ri Bhoi, Meghalaya. Civil work and machinery erection have been completed. Pre-commissioning activities are in progress and the project is scheduled for commissioning in May 2012. |
Heidelberg expands capacity, India07 May 2012, Published under Cement NewsHeidelbergCement India is expanding the manufacturing capacity of cement from 0.8Mta to 2.5Mta in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh. Civil work is nearing completion and the project is scheduled for completion in July 2012. |
Shalivahana to build new 2.6Mta plant, India07 May 2012, Published under Cement NewsShalivahana Cement Industries is planning to build an integrated cement project at Chincholi, district Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh. The project will consist of a 2.6Mta cement manufacturing project and a 60-70 MW coal-based power plant. Work on the project is expected to commence in October 2012 and is planned for completion in 2014. |