Cement News tagged under: new capacity
FANCESA Cal Orck’o works to start production mid-201930 May 2017, Published under Cement NewsBolivia’s Fábrica Nacional de Cemento (FANCESA) will finish all earthmoving works on the site of its new cement plant in Cal Orck’o in two months’ time, according to the company. New equipment will start arriving in September with the line’s completion scheduled in 2019. The earth movement stage was expected to take only four months but for undisclosed reasons there has been a four-month lag. However, FLSmidth, who was awarded the contract on 27 July 2016 has pledged to start equipment d... |
Morocco’s Tekcim project online 2019?27 April 2017, Published under Cement NewsFirst announced in 2012, Tekcim’s cement plant in El Jadida, Morocco, is expected to open in 2019 with work to begin in a few months’ time, reports La Tribune. To finance the project, Tekcim’s parent, SGTM Group, has approached the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the bank is expected to finalise the case in early summer. The cement plant represents an investment of MAD2.5bn (US$252m). The project includes a 500ha quarry. |
PPC26 April 2017, Published under Cement NewsPPC’s new cement grinding plant in Harare, Zimbabwe, is now officially open for business. The US$85m works was opened by President Robert Mugabe and marks the company’s third production site in the country. With a cement production capacity of 0.7Mta, the plant was constructed by China’s Sinoma and features a cement ball mill with dynamic separator, a single-line packer, palletiser, storage warehouse, road and rail offloading facilities, and a bulk bag-loading facility. Taking PPC’s to... |
Indonesia: changing perspectives10 April 2017, Published under Cement NewsFollowing high capacity utilisation rates and the prospect of market growth going forward, the decade running up to 2015 looked promising for Indonesian cement producers. However, as capacity expansions were implemented, economic growth faltered and cement demand slowed in 2015-16. Forecasts for 2017 are somewhat more optimistic, but the past few years have required domestic cement producers to change their perspective. B y Sinarmas Sekuritas, Indonesia. The slowdown in ceme... |
Philippines: Eagle Cement Corp eyes third Bulacan line06 April 2017, Published under Cement NewsEagle Cement Corp plans to open the third line of its Bulacan cement plant by 2018. The new line will add 2Mta of production capacity to the 5.1Mta integrated works in San Ildefonso, bringing its total cement capacity to 7.1Mta. Full funding for the new line has already been secured. In addition, the company is also looking to build a cement plant in Cebu by 4Q17 with completion of the 2Mta facility scheduled for 1Q20. The Cebu plant will be financed through the funds raised from the E... |
Prime Cement plans new Rwandan plant05 April 2017, Published under Cement NewsCement industry newcomer, Prime Cement, plans to construct a US$65m plant in Musanze District, Northern Province, Rwanda. The company has reportedly signed an equipment supply deal with FLSmidth, according to an article by The New Times (Rwanda). Gisele Bayigamba, general manager Milbridge Holding, the consortium that owns Prime Cement, said construction of the 0.7Mta facility will begin in the 3Q18. Cimerwa currently operates Rwanda’s sole integrated cement plant. The company, in w... |
Bolivia: Potosí groundworks to start in two months05 April 2017, Published under Cement NewsThe construction of the new cement works in Potosí, Bolivia, is moving ahead as the movement of land at the site is scheduled to start in two months’ time, according to Williams Cervantes Beltrán, the town’s mayor. The new plant represents a total investment of US$306m, including the mobilisation and exploitation of the limestone deposits and operating expenses. The construction of the plant itself is expected to cost around US$241m. Last March t he Bolivian government awarded the contra... |
New Zimbabwe plant begins production03 April 2017, Published under Cement NewsChinese company Livetouch Investments, has started production at its 400,000tpa capacity plant in Redcliff, Zimbabwe. Construction of the plant is part of Phase One of the company’s project. Managing director and co-shareholder Dongning Wang told The Herald Business (Zimbabwe) that the plant had started operations at 70 per cent of its capacity on a trial basis. The plant uses slag from the nearby ZISCO steel plant at Kwekwe. |
Cemex requests new authorisation to increase capacity in Colombia03 April 2017, Published under Cement NewsCemex Latam Holdings has announced it will present a new application for an environmental permit which would enable the Mexico-based cement producer to increase capacity at its Maceo plant in Antioquia, Colombia. The plant, which represents an investment of US$340m, is authorised to produce 0.25Mta at present. Earlier the company had applied to raise plant capacity to 0.95Mta, but the request had been denied. The company said that it decided to postpone the start-up of the plant, whil... |
Sika opens new cement plant in Coatzacoalcos31 March 2017, Published under Cement NewsSika announced the opening of a new mortar cement factory in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. The new plant will also start production of concrete additives previously owned by the company in Villahermosa, Tabasco, according to a company statement. "The new production site in Coatzacoalcos will strengthen our position in one of Mexico's four major business centres,” said José Luis Vázquez, Sika's regional manager for Latin America, in a statement. "From here, we can provide construction p... |