Cement News tagged: International
Angola to ban cement imports in 2015
Angola has banned the import of cement in 2015 with the country having achieved self-sufficiency in terms of cement production but has set a quota of 150,000t for three outer-lying provinces, the minister for construction said on Monday. Following a meeting of the Economic Commission of the Council of Ministers, Minister Waldemar Alexandre Pires stated: “Due to the investments made by various...
Suez Cement to invest in conversion to coal
Suez Cement, Italcementi’s Egyptian unit, said on Tuesday it planned to spend EGP600m (US$84m) in 2015 on equipping two factories to run on coal. CEO Bruno Carre said in a statement to the bourse the firm would develop its Helwan and Tora 2 factories "to use coal and residues to compensate for the lack of energy supplies." Suez Cement was one of the companies affected when the government ...
Sludge dispatched to Ariyalur plants for use as raw material
The Pollution Control Board of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu has dispatched 20,000t of sludge generated by textile units in the SIPCOT Industrial Estate in Perundurai to cement units in Ariyalur district for use as raw material. The cement industries are understood to have started accepting industry effluent treatment plant (ETP) sludge from the dyeing industry after success of a trial run ...
Guyana’s first integrated plant officially opened
Caricom Cement Company Inc has officially opened the first cement plant in Guyana in the presence of Prime Minister Samuel Hinds. The plant, situated in Everton, East Bank Berbice, has a capacity of 0.5Mta and is located in the same compound as Caricom Cement’s bagging facility. Also in attendance during the opening ceremony, which took place on 13 December 2014, were Irfaan Ali, Minister o...
Dominican Republic full-year sales seen rising 18% YoY
Cement sales in the Dominican Republic are forecast to see a double digit rise in 2014 to 3.6Mt, local association ADOCEM said on Friday. "Compared with the 3Mt consumed in 2013, this represents an increase of around 18 per cent this year," said ADOCEM president Carlos E Gonzalez told Dominican Today. He said the positive results reflect the sector’s response to the Dominican Government’...
Nepal: Sarbottam Cement launches commercial operations
Sarbottam Cement, a newcomer to the Nepalese cement industry, has started commercial operations from its new greenfield plant. The project is promoted by local company Saurabh Group while a foreign investor holds a 45 per cent stake. The Sarbottam Cement plant will have the capacity to produce 400,000t of clinker in the first stage, and then 1Mt in the future, according to the company's webs...
Siwertell wins 'Best Ship Loading/Unloading System' industry award
Siwertell, part of Cargotec, recently won its fourth IBJ (International Bulk Journal) award for its Siwertell products. This year, as in 2013 and 2009, Siwertell received the award for the Best Shiploading/Unloading System. In 2011, Siwertell won the IBJ award for Environmental Protection. Presenting the award to the Siwertell team at the Beurs-World Trade Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherland...
Saudi monthly sales up 39% YoY
Saudi Arabia's cement sales rose 39 per cent YoY to 5.09Mt in November 2014 from 3.65Mt in November 2013, according to statistics published by Saudi cement producer Yamama Cement Co. Of the total, domestic sales accounted for 5.03Mt, up 40 per cent YoY. Exports stood at 60,000t, up from 50,000t. Saudi Cement Co achieved the highest sales with 714,000t, up from 562,000t, followed by Southe...
Power crisis reduces Ghacem output
Ghana’s largest cement producer, Ghacem, said that ongoing power cuts to manufacturing industries have “significantly” reduced its output, leading to concerns on supply shortages and a potential rise in prices. The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) earlier this month announced that it is cutting power supplied to industries by as much as 25 per cent to create an artificial reserve margin to ...
Vietnam exports surpass full year target
Vietnam exported about 19Mt of clinker and cement in the first 11 months of this year, surpassing the whole-year target by 26.67 per cent, the Vietnam Building Material Association said. The average exporting prices of the cement amounted at US$43.15/t during the period. Over the January-November 2014 period, Vietnam’s domestic cement sales also hit 49Mt .The Ministry of Construction has...
Atrus halts Russian plant construction
Austrian company Atrus Cement Holding AG has halted the construction of a cement plant in Krasnodar territory indefinitely, a source familiar with the situation told Interfax. The source said that the project had been temporarily put on hold due to a lack of funds to finance the construction. Atrus Cement Holding AG was planning to build a 2.1Mta cement plant in the Crimean district of Krasn...
Cemex UK takes delivery of new cement mixer fleet
Cemex has taken delivery of a fleet of new cement mixers after a ground-breaking deal with a leading vehicle solutions firm. The company ordered 11 of the specialist 26t vehicles as part of a GBP1.2m agreement with Motiva Group. The deal is the first of its kind between the two companies. “Cemex is a huge business with operations spanning 50 countries around the world, so the fact they’re re...
Devnya wins “Building of the Year 2014” award
Italcementi’s modernisation of the Devyna Cement plant, undertaken by CBMI Construction Co of China, has been awarded Bulgaria’s "Building of the Year 2014" award under the Industrial buildings – technological renovation and expansion category. Involving an investment of EUR160m, the Devnya cement plant project is one of the largest single industrial investments in Bulgaria in the last q...
Indonesian: expected sales rebound ahead
Indonesian cement demand growth is expected to slow in 2014 but sales are anticipated to rebound next year as new projects get underway. For full-year 2014 the Indonesian Cement Association (ASI) expects sales to rise by four per cent, down from the 5.8 per cent achieved last year. The slowdown has been attributed to regional and national elections delaying infrastructure projects, high int...
Saudi: City Cement starts trail operations of Line 2
City Cement Company has started trial operations of a second production line, the Saudi-based producer said in a bourse filing. The company said the new production line will have a capacity of 5500tpd. The trial period will last about four months. Last week City Cement announced it intends to invest SAR25m (US$6.7m) in an alternative energy project, to be carried out by Chinese engineering c...
UltraTech re-evaluating Brazil asset bid
Indian cement major UltraTech Cement is reportedly re-evaluating its decision to bid for the Brazilian assets put on the block by Holcim and Lafarge ahead of their planned merger. According to local press reports, the Aditya Birla company had submitted non-binding bids for the cement assets in October, after which binding bids are due in January. The company is now said to be “rethinking ab...