Cement News tagged: International
Dalmia's Belgaum plant set to lift group capacity to over 20Mta
Dalmia Cement Bharat is set to commission its greenfield cement works in Belgaum, Karnataka, in five months, taking total group capacity to over 20Mta. The 2.5Mta plant, situated in Yadwad village, Gokak taluk, will cater to the Karnataka region, Business Line India, reports. “The new plant when commissioned will augment our overall manufacturing capabilities, and expand our annual productio...
Lafarge constructing Chipata depot, Zambia
Lafarge Zambia is constructing the first cement depot in Chipata District in Eastern Province, valued at US$700,000. The depot will have a cement storage capacity of 3000t. Emmanuel Rigaux, managing director of Lafarge Zambia, said the depot would benefit customers in Eastern Province as cement prices would now be stable. He noted, however, that storage capacity would not be enough to meet de...
Vicem: January cement and clinker output declines
State-owned Vietnam Cement Industry Corp (Vicem) saw output in January fall to 1.44Mt, a 9.4 per cent decline from December 2013 and 19.5 per cent reduction YoY. Of the total, 986,000t of cement and clinker were sold in the domestic market, down 28.8 per cent MoM and 40.2 per cent YoY, while 456,000t were exported, up 120.3 per cent MoM and 219 per cent YoY, respectively. In January, Vice...
Lafarge to spend US$20m on Harare plant upgrade
Lafarge Cement is planning to invest US$20m in the rehabilitation of its Harare works in Zimbabwe to boost volumes. The company aims to increase utilisation from the current 70 to 90 per cent once work is complete. In an interview with All Africa News, Lafarge Cement chairman Johnathon Shoniwa said: "In the short-term we are focusing on existing plant rehabilitation as believe there is p...
Lafarge Republic Norzagaray mill scheduled for mid-2015 completion
Lafarge Republic’s Inc's (LRI) new cement mill at its Norzagaray cement works is expected to be operational by June 2015. The new mill will have a capacity of 850,000tpa and will come online just six months after a similar new mill is commissioned at the company’s Teresa works. "In spite of the recent calamities that struck the central and southern portions of the country, the Philippine ec...
Cockburn reduces Munster workforce, Australia
Cockburn Cement has cut 44 jobs at its Munster cement plant in Australia and indicated that another 20 further jobs could go over the next 18 months as it restructures its operations. WA Business News reported that the move comes as Cockburn Cement plans to import clinker to grind at its Munster and Kwinana facilities. By 2016, all of the 0.4Mta of clinker previously produced at Muster will...
Ambuja to resume mining operations in Himachal Pradesh, India
Ambuja Cements is set to resume mining operations in Himachal Pradesh after the High Court granted a stay on the Ministry of Environment and Forest’s (MoEF) suspension order which was issued at the beginning of February 2014. "...the High Court of Himachal Pradesh has granted a stay on the order issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forest and accordingly, mining operations at Himachal Pr...
TPCC plans new marketing strategy to lift market share
Tanzania Portland Cement Company (TPCC) plans to review its marketing strategies to improve distribution and sales of its products as it aims to recover lost market share. Following a 20 per cent drop in market share last year, company’s goal is to “improve the performance of our business in the market," TPCC Managing Director Alfonso Rodriguez told a news conference in Dar es Salaam over th...
EAPCC to tap Tanzanian market
East African Portland Cement Co (EAPCC) plans to enter the Tanzanian market, senior management has revealed. "We are looking at Northern Tanzania and have already identified a partner situated in Arusha," Kepha Tande, managing director of the Kenya-based cement producer, said on Friday. Tande said that stiffer competition in the company’s domestic market has led it to seek new markets to ...
Pakistan export volumes and revenues fall in 7MFY14
Pakistan’s export volumes fell 7.5 per cent YoY in the first seven months of the current Pakistan fiscal, while revenues were also down 13 per cent over the same period. During the July 2013-January 2014 period, the country exported 4.85Mt of cement on revenues of US$295.52m compared to 5,243Mt at US$340.57m in the comparative period of the year before. The average export price of cement fe...
Peru: January sales slip 3%
Cement shipments in Peru reached 824,137.39t in January, according to the country’s cement assocation Asocem. This represents a YoY decrease of 3.1 per cent. In January, Peruvian cement producers exported 17,220t.
CIMAF starts construction of Mali plant
Morocco’s CIMAF will build a new cement works in Mali – the company's seventh cement works in sub-Saharan after its expansion plans in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of Congo. A ceremony to mark the start of construction was held in the rural town of Dio, where the plant will be located. It is the second works to be sited in the area after t...
Algeria to import 240,000t of cement
To alleviate the present cement shortage, Groupe Industriel des Ciments d’Algérie (GICA) has appointed Star Commercial Ltd of the British Virgin Islands to import 240,000t of cement. Algeria’s supply-demand gap currently runs over 5Mt as the country’s cement plants produce 18Mt. The volume, divided in consignments of 80,000t will be delivered to the DNC subsidiaries in the port of Djendjen...
Venezuela plans to reduce imports of Peruvian and Brazilian cement
Venezuela’s President Evo Morales announced the intention to reduce the import of cement from Peru and Brazil by installing new plants and increasing domestic output. “I want us to expand the industry and reduce imports, but sometimes emergencies have necessitated imports. These need to be curtailed and I hope to achieve this,” he said during a visit to Cooperativa Boliviana de Cemento (Cob...
Russia: Lipetskcement output continues upward trend
Lipetskcement, part of Eurocement group, has continued its steady growth trend with clinker and cement output up by 46 and 13.7 per cent YoY, respectively in January 2014. In the first month of the year the company produced 105,500t of clinker and 37,500t of cement. Production of CEM II A/S and 32.5N and CEM I 32.5N increased by 28.5 per cent and 16 per cent, respectively. Bagged cement pr...
Pakistan prices sees further increases
Cement producers in Pakistan have increased prices by PKR15/bag in anticipation of improved construction activity before the monsoon season begins. Cement dealers said that the new retail price of Falcon Cement’s brand hovers between PKR530-535 while that of Lucky Cement is PKR520/50kg after the new hike.