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Azerbaijan 10 month output increases 11.4%28 November 2011, Published under Cement NewsAzerbaijan cement output reached 1.2Mt in the first 10 months of 2011, up 11.4 per cent up on the same period of last year. Cement production reached 1.288Mt in 2010 and was 0.6% down in comparison with 1.28Mt were produced in 2009 and, in turn, were 19.7% down from 2008. Garadagh Cement JSC is the principal cement producer in Azerbaijan with the a capacity of 1-1.4Mt, enough to meet 50 per cent of the annual demand. |
UltraTech to set up cement unit in West Bengal, India28 November 2011, Published under Cement NewsUltraTech Cement Ltd proposes to set up a cement plant at Dankuni in Hoogly district, West Bengal. The project which would require about 103 acre land for the project, has received the clearance from the West Bengal Pollution Control Board. The plant would have capacity to manufacture 6,000tpd of Portland Pozzolona cement. The plant would require 4000-4500tpd of clinker, 1350-1900t fly ash and 280- 350t gypsum daily which would be sourced from UltraTech units at Hirmi and Rawan in Chhattisg... |
Mondi and Siam City Cement present new cement bags27 November 2011, Published under Cement NewsIn August 2010 Mondi and Siam City Cement (SCCC) successfully implemented a high porous bag construction for 50 kg cement packaging in Thailand. This two-ply 80gsm construction for 50kg cement bags then became the benchmark throughout Southeast Asia. “Now, with SCCC’s and Mondi’s shared passion for innovation another development has been successfully implemented: a two-ply 70gsm ’Advantage Select’ sack kraft paper for all 40kg cement bags,’ explains Clemens Stockreiter, CEO Mondi Kraft P... |
Pakistan: DG Khan Cement secures loan for new projects25 November 2011, Published under Cement NewsDera Ghazi Khan Cement (DGKC) recently signed an agreement with the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) Trade and Development Bank for a loan for three projects with the intent of slashing fuel and power costs. The ECO-TDB is a multilateral development bank established by Pakistan, Iran and Turkey in 2005, with the mandate of financing development programmes and projects, similar to those undertaken by the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. According to Inayatullah Niazi, CFO of DG... |
Anhui Conch wins approval for Indonesian plant25 November 2011, Published under Cement NewsAnhui Conch Cement Co Ltd, China’s largest cement manufacturer and seller, announced that its cement project in Indonesia had won approval from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The cement giant planned to cooperate with a Hong Kong firm to establish a cement production line with a capacity at 1.55Mta. The total investment in the project was about US$400m, among which, some US$378m will come from Conch Cement. |
Van Eeckhout invests in a Marseille joint venture25 November 2011, Published under Cement NewsCiments du Lacydon was formed earlier this year by the Sylvestre family, which is active in aggregates, and the Van Eeckhout family, which this summer agreed the sale of its VVM cement business to CRH. Rudy Sylvestre has been named as chairman and the company is based at Maubec in the south of France, some 30km from Avignon. The company is establishing a cement terminal in the port of Marseille, where it intends to invest some €20m. Lacydon is an old name for the port of Marseille. Most... |
Uganda: construction sector hit by high inflation24 November 2011, Published under Cement NewsGrowth in the construction sector is set to face a setback given the soaring costs of building materials resulting from high inflationary pressure. According to the Construction Sector Indices released by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics last week, costs in the construction sector rose by 35.3% in September 2011 compared to the same period the previous year. The rate is also higher than that of April this year when inflation in the sector stood at 19%. Uganda had witnessed an unprecedented ... |
Indonesia: Semen Gresik to build two new plants24 November 2011, Published under Cement NewsState-owned cement producer PT Semen Gresik said that it would build two new plants next year to boost the company’s annual capacity. "One of the plants will be built in Sumatra, perhaps in West Sumatra or Aceh. I cannot disclose the location of the other plant because we are still working on it," Semen Gresik president director Dwi Soetjipto told The Jakarta Post over the telephone. Dwi said that the construction of the two new plants would be started in the 2H12 and was scheduled to fini... |
Will Lafarge Cement withdraw from Slovenia?24 November 2011, Published under Cement NewsThe daily Delo speculates on Thursday whether Lafarge Cement could exit Slovenia after the Environment and Spatial Planning Ministry revoked the company’s permit for waste incineration. Judging by the response from Lafarge Cement, the company will not apply for a new permit, Delo says, wondering whether it will leave 130 people jobless and blame Slovenia, environmental movements, Zagorje Mayor Alojz Svagan and the media. Lafarge has reiterated often that it will not be competitive without ... |
IDB approves loan for Paraguay’s Cementos Iguazu plant24 November 2011, Published under Cement NewsThe Board of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) has approved a US$50m loan that will help to finance the construction and operation of the new Iguazu cement plant in Villa Hayes, Paraguay. The new works will have an initial production of around 0.4Mta of cement and is expected to replace a considerable part of cement imports. Currently, Paraguay imports around a third of its 0.9Mt cement demand. Total cost of the plant is US$150m and the project is also co-financed by Corporación... |