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Cemex signs agreement for Dominican Republic home construction09 October 2012, Published under Cement NewsCemex in the Dominican Republic and the Venezuelan business group BAK have signed an agreement to build a 760-home residential project which will integrate residential, commercial, social, recreational, and educational uses. The homes will be priced as low as US$48,000. The Colinas del Viento housing project will be located in northern Santo Domingo and comprise 760 units, 124 of which will be ready by next year. This innovative urbanization project has “Welcome Home” as its slogan, and i... |
Cementos Portland acquires new unloading equipment, UK08 October 2012, Published under Cement NewsCementos Portland Valderrivas has invested EUR1m in a new unloader to speed up bulk discharges from ships in the port of Ipswich terminal, one of two that the group has in the United Kingdom. The mobile road shipunloader was supplied by the Dutch company Van Aalst and has the ability to discharge ships of up to 5000t at a nominal rate of 225tph. According to Juan Béjar, president of Cementos Portland Valderrivas, " conditions in the unloading will be further improved, which until now w... |
Box Int'l to provide technical services for new Al Jouf expansion, Saudi Arabia02 October 2012, Published under Cement NewsBox International Consulting LP, a Texas, US-based cement industry consulting firm, announced today that they been issued a Grant of Authorisation by Saudi Arabia-based cement producer Al Jouf Cement Company to provide a variety of technical services at its plant located in Turaif, Saudi Arabia. Al Jouf Cement currently owns a 5000tpd cement plant and is building a second line with the same capacity. The third line, which Box International is to assist in developing, is also set to have a c... |
ASEC wins renewal of technical management agreement, Egypt02 October 2012, Published under Cement NewsASEC Holding has signed a technical management agreement with Misr Qena Cement for a second 10-year period. “We are very pleased to have won renewal of this contract, as we feel that this is a clear endorsement of 10 years’ hard work by ASEC Engineering in Qena,” said ASEC Engineering Chief Executive Officer Mohamed Galal Yakout. “We are looking forward to another decade of providing outstanding service to a trusted business partner.” The award was the result of a limited closed-envelope t... |
SITA UK to supply solid recovered fuel (SRF) to Cemex in Latvia01 October 2012, Published under Cement NewsRecycling and resource management company, SITA UK, has signed a three-year contract to supply 180,000t of solid recovered fuel to Cemex in Latvia. The fuel will be produced by processing residual commercial waste in a new, purpose-built facility at Ridham Docks in Kent. Once processed, the solid recovered fuel material will be used as a fossil-fuel replacement at Cemex’s cement production facility in Broceni, southern Latvia. Speaking about the contract, Andy Hill, Organics and Altern... |
IBAU HAMBURG delivers road-mobile ship unloader to Sanghi Industries, India12 September 2012, Published under Cement NewsIBAU HAMBURG has recently delivered a road-mobile ship unloader, ordered by Sanghi Industries Ltd. for their Mumbai Cement Terminal. The road-mobile ship unloaders for mini bulk tankers are usually mounted on trailers (for road transport) as the ship unloader has to serve several terminals or because it is not possible to have stationary units in the harbour. Road-mobile, trailer-mounted ship unloaders have a self-supporting structure, are weighing approximately 30t and do have a high degr... |
New order for Gebr Pfeiffer in Malaysia07 September 2012, Published under Cement NewsGebr Pfeiffer SE has been awarded the contract by KHD to supply the vertical roller mills for grinding cement raw material and coal for Straits Cement new 5000tpd plant in Malaysia. The Gebr Pfeiffer MPS 4750 B raw mill is to have a design capacity of 300tph of cement raw material ground to a product fineness of 12 % R90µm. The coal mill of the type MPS 2800 BK will be capable of grinding 35tph of coal. Straits Cement is a subsidiary of Malaysian YTL Group. |
New order for ABB from Century Cement, India15 August 2012, Published under Cement NewsABB has won an order worth US$18m in India to design, engineer and supply integrated automation and modern electrification systems for Century Cement’s Manikgarh Cement plant in central India. Manikgarh Cement is located in the state of Maharastra, in central India, and provides high quality cement products for building construction, road and bridge infrastructure and other commercial uses. ABB’s delivery is part of a two line expansion and plant modernisation project that will add produc... |
Southern Province cement signs deal with Wärtsila, Saudi Arabia03 August 2012, Published under Cement NewsSaudi Arabia’s Southern Province Cement Company has signed a US$26m contract with a Finnish power firm that will allow it to expand its power plant in Jazan, located in the south of the country. Southern Province's chairman, HH prince Abdullah bin Mosa'ad bin Abdulrahman Al- Saud, signed the contract with Wartsilla Power Contracting Co of Finland yesterday. The deal will see four diesel-powered units added to its plant in Jazan, which will increase its capacity by 32MW. |
Cemex signs 10-year outsourcing deal with IBM31 July 2012, Published under Cement NewsCemex announced it has signed a 10-year services deal with International Business Machines Corp (IBM) that will help it save close to US$1bn during the lifetime of the contract.??IBM will provide Cemex with business process and information technology services. The deal includes: finance and accounting, and human resource back-office services, as well as IT infrastructure, application development and maintenance services. "This agreement with IBM will enable Cemex to focus on its core bu... |