Cement News tagged: International
China to tighten restrictions on capacity expansion
China is to tighten restrictions on increases in new capacity in 2012 to manage surplus capacity, according to Liu Ming, an official of the National Development Reform Commission. Speaking on a cement industrial meeting, Liu said the main task at present is still to rein in the fast increase of cement production capacity since China would face overcapacity at national level during the perio...
Vietnam quarterly production seen declining
Vietnam cement manufacturers are estimated to have produced 12.1Mt of cement in the first quarter of this year, down 10.7% from a year earlier. In March alone, the Southeast Asian nation is likely to have produced 5.3Mt of cement, down 1.4% YoY, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSo) said on a monthly report released late Thursday. The GSO has also revised down the country’s c...
Devnya Cement begins expansion project, Bulgaria
Bulgarian cement producer Devnya Cement, a unit of Italy’s Italcementi, has officially launched a EUR160m upgrade project. The company has signed up CBMI of China, a subsidiary of Sinoma International Engineering, as a general subcontractor for a new production line set to begin operation in early 2015, Italcementi in a statement. The annual capacity of the new production line will be nearly...
Indonesia Hosts Asia Pacific Infrastructure Forum
Indonesia will host the largest infrastructure forum in the Asia Pacific region -- the Indonesia International Infrastructure Conference and Exhibition 2012 (IIICE 2012). This forum will be conducted simultaneously with the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Sustainable and Inclusive Infrastructure Development 2012 (APMC-SIID) to be held from May 2-5, 2012 in Jakarta. This event will...
Pakistan eight-month export sales rise in value terms
During the first eight months of the current fiscal (July 2011-June 2012), Pakistan cement exports have progressed in terms of value while the markets of Afghanistan, India and Saudi Arabia look promising. The eight month period (July 2011-February 2012) saw Pakistan export 5.855Mt of cement with a value of US$303.127m compared to 5.905Mt at US$290.852m in the corresponding period of last...
Romanian market advances
Lafarge Romania expects the domestic market to grow by 2-5 per cent this year mainly on the back of infrastructure works. The company sees revenues this year achieving 2011 levels or higher, financial daily Ziarul Financiar said, quoting Lafarge Romania head Sonia Artinian. “Last year the volume of deliveries increased but we cut prices, impacting revenues which decreased,” Artinian said. I...
Trbovlje council expresses support for Lafarge, Slovenia
The Trbovlje city council has expressed its support for Lafarge’s Slovenia unit as the cement producer is reorganising and reducing staff after it was stripped of its environmental permit for waste burning in November 2011. Lafarge Cement spokesman, Andrej Sopotnik, told the Slovenska Tiskovna Agencija that the company has so far reduced the number of workers through from 180 to 120. The reor...
Changes to Philippine prices
Local cement producers, including global majors Cemex and Lafarge, have raised prices in the Philippines by PHP5/40kg bag due to rising fuel prices and the beginning of the peak construction season. Trade and Industry undersecretary for consumer welfare Zenaida C Maglaya said that based on last Friday's Price Monitoring report, prices of two brands of cement ' Republic (Lafarge) and Rizal (C...
Qatar National Cement plans market study
Qatar National Cement has announced that its Board of Directors is to select a consultant to prepare an overall study exploring market demand to decide on whether it should increase the company’s cement and clinker capacity. (Source: Qatar Exchange)
HeidelbergCement completes Górazdze modernisation, Poland
HeidelbergCement completed the capacity expansion project at its cement plant in Górazdze, Poland, with the commissioning of a new cement mill. The new mill, – the largest ball mill in Europe – has a capacity of 1.4Mta and ideally complements last year’s increased kiln capacity. In 2012, total cement capacity in Poland rises to 5.6Mt. "With the new mill we successfully complete another impo...
India cement oversupply to persist – BNP
BNP Paribas has said that the oversupply situation in India is likely to persist while cement producers in the southern part of the country are optimistic on the demand outlook. The house says that while cement makers expect nationwide cement demand to grow 7- 8% in FY13, cement demand growth is likely to trend toward 10% levels in the longer run. "Producers hint at resumption of governm...
Sephaku cement project on track, South Africa
Construction work at Sephaku Cement’s new Aganang plant near Lichtenburg is gathering pace, a company official has said. Engineering News (EN) reported Aganang project manager, Werner Kieweg, as saying that its Chinese contractor, Sinoma International Engineering, currently had about 238 Chinese employees on site and about 38 local workers. At the peak of construction – expected in January ...
Czech Republic: challenging year ahead – report
The Czech Republic construction sector is expected to experience “challenging” year due to the postponement of major road and rail projects, according to a latest report by PMR Research. As a result, growth is not expected to return until 2013 and 2014. Civil engineering witnessed a marked slowdown in 2011 due to economic difficulties and budgetary cuts. The revised Czech government strate...
Dyckerhoff may revive Russian cement plans
Dyckerhoff is currently examining options to revive plans for the construction of a cement factory in Akbulak, German newspaper Boersen-Zietung reports. According to the daily, plans for the new plant have been frozen for the past few years. Last year, the company boosted Russian cement deliveries by 33.7 per cent to 2.43Mt and prices by 6.6 per cent. This year, the company expects the over...
Colombian output and dispatches rise, uncertainties ahead
Colombian cement production and dispatches have continued to rise in the first two months of 2012, however, uncertainty exists over near-term forecasts as the La Niña weather effect brings heavy rains to the country. In the first two months of the year, cement production in Colombia totalled 1.7Mt, 14.4 per cent over the same period of 2010, according to Colombia's national statistics offic...
Holcim Philippines forecasts moderate 2012 growth
Holcim Philippines expects to achieve growth of 5-6 per cent this year, chief operations officer Roland van Wijen has said, following a challenging 2011. Last year the company reported a 47.1 per cent decline in net profit from PHP3.84bn to PHP21.62bn due to weak demand and higher production costs. Sales, meanwhile, dropped nine per cent to PHP21.62bn. Speaking to the Philippine Star, Va...