Cement News tagged: International
Savannah lines up new capacity investments
Savannah Cement, one of Kenya's newest market entrants, is set to build two new plants as it nears exhaustion of its current capacity, managing director, Ronald Ndegwa, said. The company has previously said it is to invest around US$250m for a clinker plant at its Athi River factory to reduce reliance on imported clinker. The 1.5Mta clinker facility will complement the existing 1.5Mta grindi...
Mikhailovcement Jan-Sept output up 20.2% YoY
Mikhailovcement, part of the Eurocement group, produced 1.21Mt of cement in January-September 2014, up 20.2 per cent on the comparative period of last year. The Mikhailovcement plant, situated in the Ryazan region, produced 281,350t of CEM I 42.5H (+65.6 per cent) and 981,620t of clinker (+17 per cent) during the period. A total of 1.234Mt were shipped to customers, up +21.1 per cent YoY.
Semen Indonesia scales back full-year growth target
PT Semen Indonesia has reduced its 2014 sales growth target from 5-6 per cent to 4-5 per cent due to a slowdown in cement sector, its corporate secretary, Agung Wiharto, said. Mr Wiharto told Reuters that the state-owned company did not achieve its sales volumes target in the third quarter of this year. Sales volumes in the three months to the end of September 2014 reached 19.1Mt, up three pe...
Semen Indonesia set to acquire land for new Papua plant
PT Semen Indonesia will soon acquire 500ha of land in West Papua for the construction of a cement plant at a cost of around US$150m. Semen Indonesia corporate secretary Agung Wiharto told the Jakarta Post that the firm would sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) later this year to procure the land for the first cement factory in the province. "For a capacity of around 1Mta, we might need a...
Mika Cement resumes production, Armenia
Armenia-based producer Mika Cement, which has not functioned since April 2014, has resumed production having paid off its main debts. Naira Martirosyan, director of the plant told Arminfo, that production restarted at the end of September. "We paid off the main debts on salary and electric power and at present we have been paying off the current debts," she said. She further added that produ...
Asia Cement (China) expects 30% rise in nine-month profit
Asia Cement (China) Holdings Corp said Friday its profit for the nine months ending in September is expected to increase 30 per cent YoY. The company said in a statement that the increase is mainly due to a rise in sales volume and price of the company's products when compared with the same period last year. Asia Cement recorded a profit of CNY390.8m (US$63.8m) in the first nine months of 20...
Unitherm has successfully delivered several burners to Egypt
As part of the of the country's fuel diversification, Cemex Egypt awarded Unitherm Cemcon with the delivery of three MAS burners. These burners range from 97-105MW and are capable of firing petcoke/coal, heavy fuel oil, liquid and solid secondary fuels. After the successful supply of a new rotary kiln burner for Titan Beni Suef kiln 2 last year, Unitherm Cemcon is currently manufacturing ano...
Two Conch subsidiaries hit September highs
Anhui Conch Cement Co Ltd reported that output and sales of its major subsidiaries hit record highs in September. The company's Foshan subsidiary in south China's Guangdong province saw daily sales exceed 10,000t for five consecutive days in September, with average daily sales stablising at 8000t, according to a Xinhua-run cnstock.com report. Conch claimed that the subsidiary's Septem...
Lafarge and Holcim merger 'on track', set to request EU approval
Lafarge and Holcim are about to request approval from the European Commission for their planned merger, Lafarge Chief Executive Bruno Lafont told reporters on Thursday. "We are indeed very close to (EU) notification," Lafont told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference on affordable housing at Lafarge's headquarters in Paris. He added that talks with Brussels had been "constructive" and that...
Indonesian Jan-Sept demand up 3.4% YoY
Indonesian cement demand in the first nine months of 2014 rose by 3.4 per cent YoY to 42.993Mt, latest data from the Indonesia Cement Association (ASI) reveals. Strong gains have been seen in the past months. During September alone, sales increased by 5.7 per cent to 5.632Mt, compared to 5.329Mt in the same month of last year. However, while the the fourth quarter is traditionally strong as...
Asia Cement anticipates pick-up in Thai demand
Thailand-based producer Asia Cement said it expects a pick-up in demand from late this year and into 2015 due to the government’s stimulus package and the launch of infrastructure projects. The Italcementi-group company forecasts Thai consumption for full-year 2014 to be on a par with last year’s figure of 34Mt. A five per cent increase is projected for next year. Managing director of Asia ...
Peruvian firms tumble on concerns of slowing shipments
Peruvian cement makers slumped on concerns of slowing building materials sales while the government scales back infrastructure spending. According to reports by Bloomberg, Cementos Pacasmayo SA fell one per cent yesterday, its sixth straight daily decline, to PEN4.75. Unacem, the country’s largest cement producer, lost 1.7 per cent to PEN2.9, the lowest since September 2012. In August domes...
Mexican and Colombian imports to help meet Nicaragua project
Imports from Mexico and Colombia can ensure the supply of cement for the Gran Canal Interoceanico project in Nicaragua, according to the president of the High Council of Private Enterprise, José Adán Aguerri. He added that steps were being taken to further research supply options in the wider region, including the Caribbean, with the help of the private sector. However, the area faces supply...
Industry majors reportedly teaming up for LH asset disposals
CRH is reportedly teaming up with Cemex to bid for all the assets that Lafarge SA and Holcim Ltd will have to sell to secure the approval of European competition authorities for their proposed merger, Reuters reported on Tuesday. HeidelbergCement AG of Germany and Brazil's Votorantim Cimentos SA also are understood to be considering a joint bid for the assets, according to sources familiar wi...
Mitsubishi plans CA terminal expansion, USA
Mitsubishi Cement is seeking to expand the footprint of its import terminal at the Port of Long Beach, California, for the more efficient handling of operations. Port officials this week released a draft report reviewing the potential environmental impacts of a project being proposed by Mitsubishi Cement. A hearing for the draft EIR is set to place take on 22 October 2014. Mitsubishi Cement ...
CEMBUREAU & Birdlife call for no changes to rules that protect European nature
CEMBUREAU, the European Cement Association and BirdLife have appealed to the president of the European Commission to "not change the rules that protect European nature”. In an open letter to Jean-Claude Juncker, CEMBUREAU and BirdLife state: "After decades of existence the Birds and Habitats Directive have just started to deliver where governments have taken the necessary steps for their imp...