Cement News tagged: International
YTL Cement Singapore acquires Sin Heng Chan
YTL Corporation Bhd's YTL Cement Singapore Pte Ltd unit has acquired Sin Heng Chan (Singapore) Pte Ltd for MYR64.969m (S$24.734m). Sin Heng Chan is engaged cement trading with terminal operations, YTL Corp said in a filing in Bursa Malaysia today. It is an importer of bulk cement into Singapore and operates a bulk cement terminal at Jurong Port with a 60,000t storage capacity. The company al...
Vietnam monthly cement production up 6.7% YoY
Vietnam produced 5.6Mt of cement in November, up 5.7 per cent from October and 6.7 per cent from a year ago, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said. In the first 11 months of this year, the country’s cement output rose 5.3 per cent YoY to 54Mt, the office noted in its monthly report. The GSO has also revised down the country’s cement output in October to 5.3Mt from the earl...
Ecocem awarded first self-handling stevedoring licence for Dublin Port
Ecocem has been issued the first self-handling stevedoring licence at Dublin Port where it operates a slag grinding facility. Conor O’Riain, managing director of Ecocem Ireland, told the Irish Times that the company spent about €400,000 on a second-hand crane which was used last week to unload its first consignment of slag. Self-stevedoring would cut the company’s costs, he added. Ecocem wil...
US: increase in average kiln sizes
US kiln sizes increased over the 2010-13 period, according to the PCA’s 2013 Plant Information Summary. The latest summary highlights that the average kiln now is equipped with an annual capacity of 698,000t, up from 673,000t in 2010. The report shows that the US cement industry operates operates 106 cement plants (99 clinker-producing and seven grinding facilities). This includes just under...
China to halt output from three northeast provinces
China is to halt cement production in three northeast provinces to reduce winter emissions. The world’s largest cement producer will suspend 103 cement production lines from today through March 31 in the Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces, state news agency Xinhua reported, citing the China Cement Association. The move will help cut smog in northeast China and in Beijing and Tianjin...
Cemex to resume Tepeaca plant expansion
Cemex announced that it is to restart the expansion of its Tepeaca cement plant in Mexico having put the project on hold in 2008. The additional investment involves 4.4Mta of new capacity at a cost of around US$200m, taking the total spend on the Tepeaca plant to US$650m. The company had already spent US$450m on the project by 2008. Upon completion in 2017, total capacity of the plant will re...
Colombia’s October cement dispatches up 5.5%
Cement dispatches in Colombia saw a 5.5 per cent YoY expansion to 1.09Mt in October 2014, according to the latest data published by Dane, the country’s statistics office. While construction companies and contractors consumed some 7.3 per cent less, this was offset by a 13.4 per cent sales advance in the retail segment. The department of Nariño saw an 86.1 per cent rise in sales, followe...
Shiva April-Nov dispatches up 31% YoY
Shiva Cement's dispatches of cement and clinker from April-November 2014 were up by 31 per cent compared to the comparative period of the year before. Dispatches over the April-October 2014 period were up by 18.4 per cent compared to April- October 2013. Shiva Cement’s plants are located in located at Kalunga and Sundargarh in Orissa.
Omani producers face hike in natural gas prices
Oman’s two leading cement producers are looking to mitigate the effects of an impending rise in natural gas prices which are expected to lead to an increase in the cost of cement production. The country’s Ministry of Oil and Gas (MOG) is to increase the price of natural gas as of 1 January 2015. The price will thereafter increase every year for both companies at rates specified by the minist...
Vietnam sales seen rising 4-7% in 2015
Vietnam's sales of cement and clinker are predicted to rise by 4-7 per cent next year to between 71-73Mt, according to estimates by the country’s Ministry of Construction (MoC). Of the total, domestic sales are expected to reach 52-53Mt while exports are anticipated to amount to 19-20Mt during the year, state media cited the ministry as saying last week. Vietnam currently has 74 cement pr...
MPA: Cement Sustainability Report confirms carbon costs ‘harming the industry’
The Mineral Products Association (MPA) Cement on Friday published its 2013 Sustainable Development report which highlights the challenges the industry faces in remaining competitive and contributing to a sustainable UK economy. It identifies UK specific carbon costs being applied to the sector as a major burden and potential threat to the future of the industry and calls on the UK Government t...
Pacific Cement looks to extend export reach
Pacific Cement Ltd is looking to new export markets in Australasia having been recognised for its efforts at the 2014 Westpac Prime Minister's Exporter of the Year Awards. The company, which operates a 0.215Mta grinding unit on the Pacific island of Fiji, received a 'Recognition Award' for the first time at the ceremony hosted by Investment Fiji and sponsored by the Westpac Banking Corporati...
India: Dalmia Bharat interest in LafargeHolcim units
Delhi-based Dalmia Bharat is reported to be in talks to bid for one or more European cement assets put on sale by Holcim and Lafarge as part of its global cement merger deal. Dalmia Bharat is the second Indian company after Kumar Mangalam Birla's UltraTech to join the race for buying Holcim and Lafarge units due for disposal. Holcim and Lafarge have decided to sell around 40 cement assets ac...
Yemen cement factory overcomes supply problems
Saudi Arabia-based Eastern Cement Co said that fuel and raw materials supply for clinker production in neighbouring Yemen was temporarily interrupted in November, due to the escalating security and political turmoil in the country. The sale of cement by Arabian Yemen Cement Company Ltd, in which Eastern Cement controls a stake of 31.58 per cent, has continued without disruptions as the compan...
Government support of Canadian plant to be investigated
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) welcomed the move by the Office of the US Trade Representative to press Canada at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over a financial assistance package provided for a cement plant in Quebec that US cement producers say amount to illegal subsidies of up to US$400m. "USTR has raised this issue at high levels of Canadian government and is currently reviewing the fin...
Vietnam: cement consumption on the rise
Vietnam's Ministry of Construction forecast that about 52-53Mt of cement and clinker will be consumed in the domestic market in 2014 with an additional 18-21Mt exported. Vietnam’s cement production currently includes 74 kiln lines with a total output capacity of 77Mta. In the first 10 months of 2014, Vietnamese cement producers sold 56.54Mt of cement and clinker. According to the Vietnam Cem...