Cement News tagged: International
House of Representatives summons Nigerian producers
Dangote Cement and BUA Cement are among a number of cement producers that have been given 14 days to appear before the House of Representatives in Nigeria. The companies were initially summoned by the House to appear in early May as part of an investigation into the hike in cement prices across the country but failed to show, reports Premium Times. Jonathan Gbefwi, chair of the House of...
Pakistan cement exports continue to excel in April 2024
Pakistan’s cement industry’s total cement dispatches during April 2024 were 2.94Mt, compared to 2.95Mt in April 2023. This comprises local cement at 2.33Mt against 2.53Mt in April 2023, showing a decline of 7.99 per cent. Export dispatches rose by 45.96 per cent as the volumes increased from 420,857t in April 2023 to 614,264t in April 2024. Usama Rauf, investment analyst at AKD Securities, ...
Ghana sees cement price hike
Cement traders are seeing price hikes despite stable fuel prices, according to Ghana Business News. All three grades of cement produced by Ghana Cement (Ghacem) have seen an upward trend. A bag of Super Cool cement increased from GHS82 (US$5.95) to GHS88 while Super Rapid now sells at GHS95, up from GHS87. Super Strong cement is now supplied at GHS105 from GHS95. The price of iron rods h...
Pakistan cement association voices concerns over law and order
The All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA) has expressed its concerns over the deteriorating law and order situation in Pakistan. “The law and order situation in Dera Ismail Khan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Kohat, Mianwali and adjacent areas has seriously jeopardised the day-to-day operations of the areas’ cement units,” said the spokesman of APCMA. Recently some workers of a cement uni...
Weak first quarter for Spanish cement
Cement consumption in Spain dropped a notable 23.6 per cent YoY in March 2024, to 1.102Mt, down from 1.144Mt in March 2023, according to the Spanish cement association, Infocemento. Infocemento notes two downward drags on the sector during the month: “On the one hand, the calendar effect, having more festive holidays than previous years due to the celebration of Holy Week in March instead of A...
Portuguese cement consumption up 13% YoY in February
Cement consumption in Portugal in February 2024 advanced by 13.4 per cent, compared to the same period a year earlier, according to the Association of Civil Construction and Public Works Industries (AICCOPN). Consumption for the month came in at 646,000t. In the opening two months of 2024, the number of licences issued for new construction or rehabilitation works of residential buildings in...
Vietnam exporters looking further afield
Cement sales in Vietnam continue to struggle versus their year-ago levels. Sales were down 17 per cent YoY to 5.113Mt in March 2024, from 6.161Mt a year earlier, according to the Vietnam National Cement Association (VNCA). However, they did show a strong uptick from February, rising 130 per cent MoM. Of the total, VICEM companies saw sales down 23 per cent YoY to 1.625Mt. Other VNCA-affiliated...
66th IEEE-IAS/PCA 2024 achieves record attendance in Denver
The 66 th IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Conference and Exhibition in Denver, Colorado, USA, announced a record attendance of 1200 delegates, as the technical sessions began on 30 April 2024. Brian Keefe, Bridge Gap Engineering’s managing director, opened the technical sessions and thanked the team of 61 volunteers that made up the organising committee for this year’s event. The record attendance was...
New MYR1.2bn cement plant for Sabah
A MYR1.2bn (US$251.5m) integrated cement plant project in Kampung Kawayoi Pinangah, Tongod, central Sabah, Malaysia, will help boost the economy of the local community upon completion. Malaysia’s Sabah Chief Minister Datum Seri Hajiji Moor said that the new plant would complement the existing Cement Industries Sabah (CIS) Sen Bhd plant. “I believe this new factory will not only boost our ceme...
Uzbekistan sees opening of new 2.5Mta cement plant
The opening ceremony of a new 2.5Mta cement plant took place in the Andijan region of Uzbekistan, according to Trend. China-based Conch International Holdings Ltd and Zhejiang Shanfeng Building Materials Co Ltd invested US$250m in the Andijan Conch project near the border with Kyrgyzstan. Uzbek cement production reached 15.5Mt in 2023. In January 2024 the sector supplied an output of 627,90...
Difficult start to 2024 for US cement market
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement, including imports, in the US and Puerto Rico amounted to 5.886Mt in the first month of 2024, down 14.3 per cent YoY from the 6.872Mt recorded in January 2023, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). Of the total blended volume reported, 2.745Mt, or 98 per cent, was estimated to be Portland limestone cement. The key destination for Por...
Indian cement demand to grow by 6-7% in FY24-25
Indian cement volume growth recovered to a healthy 7-8 per cent YoY in the last quarter (1 January 2024-31 March 2024) of FY23-24, on aggressive volume push, after growing ~15 per cent YoY in the first half of the year and logging a moderate slowdown in the third quarter due to regional hindrances, according to CRISIL MI&A Research. This ensured a third straight year of healthy demand growth ...
Adbri is granted US$32.5m for upgrade at Birkenhead plant
The Adelaide-based cement manufacturer, Adbri , has been granted US$32.5m by the Australian federal government. The grant will finance a new front-end engineering and design (FEED) study at the company’s Birkenhead cement plant. The aim of the study is to assess the possible addition of a new vertical roller mill and post-production blending system math the site. The proposed upgrade ...
Outlook improving for Indonesia cement demand, clinker exports robust
Cement sales in Indonesia amounted to 65.501Mt in 2023. This is an increase of 3.4 per cent YoY compared to the 63.346Mt reported in 2022. Regional sales were a mixed bag, with over a third recording sale contractions. Java, the country’s largest market, saw sales rise a modest 0.3 per cent YoY to 33.56Mt, while sales in the capital Jakarta rose 5.5 per cent YoY to 2.714Mt. Sales volumes we...
Swiss cement market contracts 8% in 1Q24
Cement demand in Switzerland, including Liechtenstein, declined eight per cent to 786,433.2t in the first quarter of 2024 when compared with 855,143.7t in the 1Q23, according to the Swiss cement association, cemsuisse. While cement sales continue to fall due to uncertainty in terms of interest rates, energy prices and supply chains, the decline is slowing. Planned projects in civil engineering...
Cement Australia to receive AUD52.9m in government funding
Cement Australia ’s kiln facility in Railton, Tasmania, is due to receive AUD52.9m (US$34.4m) in funding from the country’s federal government. The kiln upgrade will allow the Railton plant to begin using biomass instead of coal, when it produces clinker and cement, as part of a federal initiative to help reduce companies’ carbon emissions. Once operational, the kiln upgrade in Railto...