Cement News tagged: International
Indonesia's domestic monthly sales climb 13% YoY
Indonesia's domestic cement sales rose 13 per cent YoY in August, data from Indonesia Cement Association showed on Thursday. Sales rose to 5.3Mt of cement last month, from 4.7Mt in the same period last year. Sales have proved disappointing through 2015, with declines seen over several months due to the stuttering economy and weak demand from the construction sector. "The increase indicate...
Argentina sees August cement sales edge downward
In August 2015 Argentina’s cement producers dispatched 981,621t of cement (including exports), down 8.6 per cent MoM and 2.2 per cent YoY, according to the country's cement association, AFCP. The country’s cement demand fell by 8.6 per cent MoM but by only 1.6 per cent when compared with August 2014. Total domestic shipments reached 977,469t and no cement was imported. For the first eig...
Mitsubishi Materials plans to bolster US business
Mitsubishi Materials plans to invest as much as JPY3bn-4bn (US$24.9m-33.2m) to bolster its US business, according to reports in the Nikkei Asian Review. As early as 2016, the company will restart its Long Beach, California, receiving terminals and holding facilities that have been put on hiatus since 2009.The cement maker will also build new terminals and facilities in San Diego, with constru...
Itacamba's new plant on track for 2H15 opening, Bolivia
Itacamba Cemento's new plant in Yacuses, near Puerto Suarez, Santa Cruz, is set to open in the second half of 2015, according to local press reports. The new facility will have a capacity of 870,000tpa of cement and primarily serve the Santa Cruz market in eastern Bolivia.
Competition Market Authority consults on draft cement price announcement order
The Competition Market Authority (CMA) has published a draft order which would prohibit cement suppliers in Great Britain from sending generic price announcement letters to their customers. In January 2014, the Competition Commission (CC) published its final market investigation report into aggregates, cement and ready-mix concrete which required Lafarge Tarmac to sell one of its cement plant...
Senj Sant cement plant opens in Mongolia
A newly-opened greenfield cement plant is set to boost Mongolia’s domestic supply of building materials at a time when the country is looking to stimulate new investment and construction. The Senj Sant cement plant was opened on 13 August 2015 in Urgun Soum, Dornogovi province, 450km from the capital Ulaanbaatar. It is the first dry-process plant to be installed in Mongolia, a factor which is...
AMMC signs contract for Uzbekistan plant expansion
Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combine (AMMC) has signed a contract with Turkey-based Dal Teknik Makina to expand capacity of a cement plant in the Jizzakh region of Uzbekistan, a resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers said. According to the document, the project worth US$35.7m is aimed at increasing the production capacity of the plant to 1Mta, Trend News Agency reported.
India: Sagar Cements reports rise in monthly output and sales
India-based Sagar Cements Ltd on Tuesday reported a 6.87 per cent rise in output during August 2015 to 114,600t compared to 107,236t a year earlier. Dispatches during August 2015 stood at 113,380t, an increase of 5.23 per cent, compared to 107,749t in August 2014. Earlier this month the company completed the acquisition of a 100 per cent shareholding in BBM Cements. BMM Cements has now bec...
Nigeria: BUA Cement signs US$600m expansion deal with Sinoma
BUA Group has signed US$600m worth of contracts with China's Sinoma International Engineering Co to double capacity at its Obu cement plant. The plant currently produces 3.5Mta, but by the end of 2017 capacity will rise to 7Mta. BUA's executive chairman, Abdulsamad Rabiu, said at the signing ceremony, “BUA has less than 10 per cent of market share now, after expansion we should go to about ...
Tajikistan: 1.2Mta Vahdat cement plant opened
During his working visit to Vahdat on 6 September, President Emomali Rahmon officially opened LLC "Toj-China 2013" cement plant, which has a capacity of 1.2Mta. Some 400 local professionals and workers will be provided with jobs in the factory, which works a single-shift operation. Simultaneously with the launch of the second stage of the plant, another 400 people will be provided with perma...
Vietnam sales eight-month update
Vietnam sold 46.92Mt of cement and clinker in the first eight months of this year, rising 10 per cent from a year earlier and fulfilling 65 per cent of the annual target, according to the country's Building Material Department of the Ministry of Construction. Of the total volume, 36.02Mt of cement were sold in the domestic market, up nine per cent YoY, while 10.9Mt were exported, rising 17 p...
Mexican cement prices increase
Mexican newspaper Reforma reported that cement prices in the country were increased by about six per cent on 1 September. This is the third price hike in the year which suggests the earlier two have been absorbed by the market. At 1H15 stage, Holcim reported pricing to be up 5.3 per cent and Cemex noted six per cent growth with a forecast for mid/high single-digit growth. Mexico generate...
Zimbabwe offers Dangote growth
The Nigerian billionaire, Aliko Dangote, head of the Dangote Group, visited Zimbabwe this week and struck investment deals in mining, cement manufacturing and power generation. Dangote separately met President Robert Mugabe and his deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, as well as mining, transport and local government ministers. He was particularly forthcoming about the cement manufacturing plant, tel...
Lucky Cement close to winning limestone licence in Punjab province, Pakistan
Lucky Cement Ltd is close to winning a permit to extract limestone in Punjab province, signalling expansion plans for the Pakistan producer, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company will get a limestone quarry for a cement plant in Punjab, and the local administration has approved the deal, said Arshad Mehmood, secretary for Punjab’s mines and minerals department, the report stated. A...
US June shipments up 7.6% YoY
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the US and Puerto Rico in June 2015 were about 8.9Mt, up by 7.6 per cent YoY, according to data from the the US Geological Survey (USGS). Shipments for the year through June totalled 40.8Mt, up by 3.6 per cent for the same period in 2014. The leading producing states for Portland and blended cement in June were Texas, California, Missouri, Fl...
Vietnam output rises 10.3% in first eight months
Vietnam produced 43.1Mt of cement in the first eight months of this year, up 10.3 per cent from a year ago, including 5.9Mt in August, up 16.9 per cent, the government-run General Statistics Office said. In the first seven months, the country’s cement production hit 37.2Mt, according to the revised figure. Cement and clinker sales are expected to rise 1.5-4 per cent YoY to between 72-74Mt th...