Cement News tagged: International
DG Khan Hub plant to start production by year-end
DG Khan’s new US$300m Hub cement plant in Balochistan province, Pakistan, will begin production by December 2017, according to a local brokerage house. The Express Tribune reported yesterday that Shajar Capital said it along with its clients paid a visit to the construction site to assess the process which “as per the project management is expected to come online by the end of calendar year ...
Indonesia 1H sales dip, exports rise
Cement sales in Indonesia registered a slight decline over the first half of this year, while exports sales fared better over the six-month period, according to the latest industry data. Domestic sales were down by 1.3 per cent YoY to 29Mt in the 1H17, compared to 29.37Mt a year earlier, statistics published on state-owned Semen Indonesia’s website reveal. Widodo Santoso, chairman of the ...
Argentina consumption up 17% YoY in June
Argentina’s cement market expanded 4.1 per cent MoM to 1,007,450t in June, according to the country’s cement association, AFCP. When compared with June 2016, the increase reached 17.2 per cent. Around 8972t of imports are included in this figure – more than quadrupling when compared with June 2016 although when compared with May 2017, the rise is more modest at 51 per cent. Domestic cement ...
Senegal production rises in 4M17
Senegal’s cement production during the first four months of 2017 showed a slight increase of 2.5 per cent, compared to the same period in 2016, African Press Agency (APA) News reported citing the Directorate of Forecasting and Economic Studies (DPEE). According to DPEE, which relies on data from two cement plants (Sococim and Ciments du Sahel) out of the three existing in the country, cement...
Qassim Cement Co reports 53% drop in 2Q profit
Qassim Cement Co reported a 53.29 per cent YoY decline in 2Q17 net profit, while the drop on a QoQ basis was 33.63 per cent, according to a bourse filing. Profits totalled SAR53.2m (US$14.2m) in 2Q17 compared to SAR113.9m for the same period last year, the company said in a statement to the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) on Monday. The contraction was in part attributed to lower domestic dem...
Procim to operate under the Binastore banner
Procim, the distribution network of LafargeHolcim Cote d'Ivoire, will now operate under the Binastore brand, the parent company’s specialised retail network for construction materials in the Middle East and Africa. The company said in a statement yesterday that the new sign will be deployed progressively from mid-July to the end of August 2017 across Procim's sales network. Serving the n...
Moroccan monthly sales down 31%
The Moroccan cement market contracted in June by 30.6 per cent YoY to 721,846t from 1,039,544Mt in June 2016, according to the country’s Ministry of Housing. The drop in sales was attributed to a slowdown in construction activity. In the first half of 2017, demand decreased 9.24 per cent to 6,771,681t with all parts of country seeing a drop in sales, apart from a few southern provinces. ...
Cemex settlement agreement with CA Coastal Commission
The California Coastal Commission has approved the agreement Cemex negotiated with commission staff regarding the continued operation of the Cemex Lapis sand plant at a meeting in Seaside (CA), USA. This agreement is part of a settlement of disputes with the commission, the State Lands Commission and the City of Marina over the historical operations of the more than 110-year old Lapis sand pla...
Hanson updates on 2016 sustainability highlights
Hanson UK’s 2017 sustainability report shows capital investment by the company is up 40 per cent with a significant amount spent on projects to save energy, reduce emissions and improve its sites. The annual report, which covers the 2016 calendar year, details progress against the company’s 2020 sustainability targets including people, communities, carbon, waste and water. Highlights inc...
Semen Indonesia president director passes away
Rizkan Chandra, president director of Semen Indonesia passed away on Saturday, 15 July following a short illness. Agung Wiharto, Semen Indonesia's corporate secretary confirmed the news to reporters. Mr Chandra, who was born in Jakarta on 27 January 1969, was serving as president director of the state-owned Semen Indoensia over the 2016-20 period.
Expected decline in 2Q Saudi cement sales
Saudi cement sales volumes are expected to have declined by 17 per cent YoY and 11 per cent QoQ due to a lower pace of project spending, Riyadh Capital writes in its latest preview report on the domestic cement sector. However, some welcome relief could come in the form of the government's decision to reduce the export tariff by 50 per cent, the research house adds. The Saudi cement industry ...
LafargeHolcim inaugurates first dedicated Durabric plant in Malawi
One year after the launch of 14Trees, LafargeHolcim’s and CDC’s joint venture to scale-up Durabric, 13 July 2017 marks the next step in its development with the inauguration of a dedicated manufacturing plant in Malawi. Durabric is LafargeHolcim’s affordable building solution, produced with a unique blend of earth, sand and cement, which removes the need for firing, helping fight deforestat...
Hima Cement signs supply deal for Uganda infrastructure
Uganda-based Hima Cement is to supply infrastructure projects being undertaken by China Communications Construction Co Ltd (CCCC) in the East African country under a new trade deal, local media have reported. Allan Ssemakula, Hima Cement's commercial director, said the LafargeHolcim company will supply cement for the ongoing Entebbe International Airport expansion, construction of Mubende-Ka...
Bamburi gears up for grinding expansion
Bamburi Cement is set to start expansion of its Athi River grinding plant in Kenya next month, wth a senior executive saying that it has completed pre-construction preparation for the project. “In January we embarked on this 18-month project to construct a new cement grinding line at Athi River, and with civil works currently underway, structural work is set to commence next month,” Managing...
Cemex to supply special concrete for new terminal
Cemex expects to supply 21,500m 3 of roller-compacted concrete (RCC) to pave all of the roads for the new terminal of ALA Transportes, a division of Grupo Transportes de Monterrey (GTM), the largest trucking company in Mexico. Comprising 15ha in Nuevo Laredo, in northern Mexico, the project required a solution capable of easing the daily traffic of 400 trailers (of 14,000t) and that also of...
Cement demand in Brazil continues fall in 1H17
Cement sales in Brazil in the 1H17 fell 8.8 per cent YoY as the domestic market required 26.015Mt of cement, according to Brazil’s cement association, Sindicato Nacional de la Industria del Cemento (SNIC). In the southeast of the country, the largest segment, sales fell from 13.12Mt in 1H16 to 12.21Mt in 1H17, representing a decrease of 6.9 per cent. However, both the northeastern and centr...