Cement News tagged: International
The Netherlands: ENCI to operate without licence until 1 August
The Dutch province of Limburg is allowing ENCI in Maastricht, The Netherlands, to continue operating despite the retraction of the cement plant’s licence by the country’s State Council last February. The step was taken to safeguard the direct employment of 150 staff and the indirect employment of a further 300. The State Council concluded that the impacts of cement production at the plant...
Cemex hikes prices by 7% in Mexico
Cemex is to increase the price of grey cement in Mexico by seven per cent, its second increase of 2014. The company hiked prices in its domestic market during the first quarter of this year. Together with the new increment, prices have risen by 14.5 per cent on a cumulative basis so far in 2014. The increases have been made in a bid to bring prices back up to where they were in 2012 befo...
Moroccan cement sales notes 4.5 per cent drop in May
Cement sales in Morocco continue to decline as dispatches in May fell 4.46 per cent, bringing the year-to-date fall to 3.37 per cent. The largest decrease was noted in the region of Oued Eddahab-Lagouira where sales plunged 18.5 per cent YoY to 13,273t. In Casablanca sales slipped 1.9 per cent to 835,469t in May 2014. However, in Guelmim-Es-Smar sales jumped 27.4 per cent to 97,353t. Mor...
Paraguay to inject US$67m in INC
The Paraguayan state will lend Industria Nacional del Cemento (INC) US$67m to reactivate the company’s investments in its Vallemí and Villeta plants, which were on hold due to lack of funds. The investments include a fuel conversion at the kiln of Vallemí as well as a new cooler and the optimisation of limestone grinding at the works. At Villeta, the company is reportedly investing US$7m i...
PPC Zimbabwe sales fall 5%
PPC Zimbabwe's domestic sales fell by five per cent in the first five months of the year as housebuilding activity slows. Managing director, Njombo Lekula, said domestic market sales have been flat compared to last year when growth in housing projects boosted demand for cement. "For the past few years there has been significant growth in housing, which boosted cement demand, however, the ...
Semen Indonesia targets over 40Mta of capacity in 2017
Semen Indonesia targets over 40Mta of capacity over the next three years, as it continues to increase domestic capacity and seeks to expand into other Asian countries and beyond. This year the company targets capacity of 31.8Mt this year, according to its president Dwi Soetjipto. By 2016 Semen Indonesia will further expand its production capacity to 37.8Mt with new production facilities ...
Holcim US to increase capacity at Ada works, USA
Holcim US Inc is planning to invest US$100m to modernise its Ada cement works which will see an increase in capacity at the Oklahoma-based plant. Robin DeCarlo, vice president of Holcim corporate communications, told local newspaper Ada News that is has submitted an application for a permit to the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality earlier this week and expects to begin upgrading it...
Nova Cimangola receives funds to boost capacity, Angola
Nova Cimangola is set to receive AOA11.3bn (US$116m) from the Angolan government to increase the cement plant’s production capacity. According to a decree dated on 28 April 2014 and published on 5 May 2014, the funds will be transferred by the Finance Ministry and will give Nova Cimangola greater financial capacity thus ensuring a greater supply to the Angolan market, and thus reduce prices...
Carolinas Cement plans US$5m packaging facility
Carolinas Cement Company, part of the Titan America group, announced Friday it has submitted an application with New Hanover County to build a permit to construct a US$5m packaging facility. The new unit would add to an existing storage and handling terminal owned and operated by Roanoke Cement Company, another subsidiary of Titan, on the site of the former Ideal cement plant in Castle Hayne...
Lafarge Nigeria calls for review of labelling
Lafarge Nigeria is calling for proper product labelling by manufacturers to address the wrong application of cement products. Lanre Opakunle, the company’s General Manager, Industrial Performance of the company, said there was need to review how cement products were labelled to educate end-users on the basic steps necessary for right application and results. “We discovered that the labellin...
Carthage Cement issues Provisional Performance Acceptance certificate, Tunisia
The Provisional Acceptance certificate has been issued by Carthage Cement for the 5800tpd Djebel Ressas cement plant in Tunisia, constructed by an FLSmdith-Ekon-Prokon consortium on an EPC turkney basis. The greenfield Djebel Ressas plant is the first project to be completed after the Arab Spring. According to a statement by Ekon, the plant has exceeded design figures in terms of production c...
Algeria: Saoura Ciment to build 1Mta works
Saoura Ciment, a subsidiary of GICA, is currently carrying out negotiations with a Chinese partner to realise the Ben-Zireg cement plant, in Bechar, according to its director general. Director, Abdelkader Bouaichaoui, said: "The SSC has recently started negotiations with a Chinese company that made the best financial and technical proposals, to realise this cement plant,." The new plant ...
Raysut appoints new chief executive, Oman
Oman’s Raysut Cement has appointed Salem Alawi Mohammed Baabood as chief executive, the company said in a bourse statement on Wednesday.
Pakistan FY14-15 Budget set to positively impact on the cement sector
Pakistan’s FY14-15 Budget, announced yesterday by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, is being regarded as largely positive for the country’s cement industry as it includes a number of infrastructures and energy-related projects which look set to spur demand. It is hoped that a 24 per cent increase in higher Public Sector Development Programme spending (PSDP), investments in irrigations, improving t...
Colombian April demand increases 4.3%
The Colombian cement market expanded by 4.3 per cent YoY in April 2014 as 0.957Mt were delivered to domestic customers, according to the latest report from national statistics office, Dane. Major dispatch growth was noted in Norte de Santander (35.3 per cent), Huila (18 per cent), Bolívar (10.3 per cent) and Antioquia (6.5 per cent). Córdoba’s cement consumption fell by 30.1 per cent. Grey...
Vietnam monthly cement sales up
Companies in Vietnam sold 6.07Mt of cement in May, up 9.7 per cent from a year ago, including 4.77Mt sold at the domestic market, rising by 11.9 per cent YoY, the Vietnam Building Material Department under the Ministry of Construction has said. In the first five months, the country’s cement sales rose by 18.4 per cent YoY to 27.27Mt, fulfilling 43.98 per cent of the whole-year target, the de...