Cement News tagged under: international
HeidelbergCement faces pressures in Georgia29 June 2010, Published under Cement NewsHeidelbergCement is facing serious pressures in Georgia and is under high risk of leaving local market. The company is unable to export to Azerbaijan, a market that occupies biggest part of HeidelbergCement export share. Source at the company told The Financial that Azerbaijan is blocking imports due to the opening of Larsi checkpoint, land border with Russia. “The only serious problem is refusal of Georgian produced cement in Azerbaijan cement market. On the border we have five stopped ... |
Hyderabad Industries to halt ops at Haryana plant29 June 2010, Published under Cement NewsIndian cement products manufacturer Hyderabad Industries said it has stopped operations at its thermal insulation products manufacturing unit at Dharuhera in Haryana. The Haryana State Pollution Control Board had directed the company to suspend operations at the unit, citing the absence of a proper and effective effluent treatment plant and air pollution control measures, it said. It had accordingly stopped operations and cut off power supply to the unit on June 19, Hyderabad Industries sa... |
Waste management may replace Westbury cement factory?, UK28 June 2010, Published under Cement NewsA senior official at Lafarge has told a public meeting that the redundant factory land could be used for waste management or industrial units. John Hernon, national planning manager, said Lafarge’s decision to end manufacturing at Westbury stemmed from the fact the predicted demand for cement would not return to 2007 levels until at least 2021. Mr Hernon, who attended the Westbury Area Board on Thursday, said the firm was entering into detailed talks with Wiltshire Council about the s... |
Semen Gresik sees profit growth over 10% in 1H28 June 2010, Published under Cement NewsGresik president director Dwi Soetjipto said last week that the company’s net profits were estimated to reach IDR1.66trn in the first half of this year, an increase of 10 per cent from IDR1.51trn in the same period last year. He said that during the first five months of this year, the company had sold 6.9Mt of cement, an increase of 14 per cent from the same period last year largely due to an increase in orders from Kalimantan and several regions in eastern Indonesia. With the encouraging ... |
Vietnam likely to produce 25Mt of cement in 1H28 June 2010, Published under Cement NewsVietnam is estimated to have produced 25Mt of cement in the first six months of this year, equalling 50% of its full-year target, the Ministry of Construction said without giving on-year comparison. Total domestic cement sales in May and June fell sharply against that of April, resulting in Vietnam’s low consumption of 24Mt in 1H, the ministry was cited by the Dau tu newspaper as saying Friday. Cement firms plan to operate 13 more production lines with total designed capacity of 11.7Mt thi... |
Dangote positions Onne Cement facility for export28 June 2010, Published under Cement NewsDangote Group has positioned its subsidiary firm Dangote Bail Limited, as the hub for exporting its brand of bagged cement to sub Saharan-Africa. The facility is located at the Federal Ocean Terminal Onne in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. According to general manager of operations, Abdullahi Bada, the Group’s reasons for expanding investment in the nation’s cement industry(Obajana cement, Kogi, BCC Gboko, including Lagos, Port Harcourt and the soon to take off Ibese plant in Ogun State ) was ... |
Pirelli and Bosco Solid Recovered Fuel partnership27 June 2010, Published under Cement NewsPirelli Ambiente, the company in the Pirelli Group operating in the field of renewable energy, signed a licensing agreement with Bosco International, which promotes systems and industrial processes for a sustainable environment, which will allow the Australian company to use the Pirelli patent for production of high quality solid recovered fuel (HQ-SRF) derived from municipal solid waste (MSW). The Pirelli technology will initially be used in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria, Australia, as... |
Investors wary as Karnataka suffers from manpower woes27 June 2010, Published under Cement NewsInvestments worth INR4trn, promised during a global investors’ meet (GIM) early this month, are expected to create nearly 800,000 jobs in Karnataka, but investors are worried the state doesn’t have enough trained workers to meet the demand. Steel and cement makers, infrastructure developers, information technology (IT) firms and other companies rank the unavailability of manpower as the second-most serious hurdle they face, after land acquisition, and say it could put paid to their investm... |
Nigeria producers increase production27 June 2010, Published under Cement NewsNigeria’s Federal Government’s aim of ensuring self-sufficiency in cement production through a shift away from bulk importation may soon be achieved. Notable moves in this regards, in recent years, include Obajana Cement Company, a greenfield project of the Dangote Group, located in Kogi State, which commenced operations in 2006, in addition to such efforts as the group’s investments in Ibese, Ogun State, and Benue Cement Company. Within the past year also, the board and management of Lafa... |
Holcim to increase clinker capacity, Morocco27 June 2010, Published under Cement NewsTo meet the growing demand of cement in Morocco, and in anticipation of an advance the optimal long-term market dynamics and the construction industry, particularly in the region of Fez, Holcim says it plans to double clinker capacity at its Ras El Ma plant. This project aims to increase clinker production capacity to 900,000tpa, corresponding to an output of 1.2Mta of cement, which should be operational by early 2012. The investment is valued at MOD1.4bn. |