Cement News tagged: International
Eurocement Group produces more cement
Eurocement Group produced 22.5Mt of cement last year. The Ukrainian enterprises of the Holding produced 2.8Mt of cement. Last year it was approved and started the realisation of technical re-equipmen
Lithuania’s Akmenes raises sales
Akmenes Cementas, Lithuania’s only cement manufacturer, posted 6.173 million litas (Euro 1.8m) in sales for January, a surge of 47.3 per cent from the year-earlier figure of 4.19 million litas.
Improving prices in China filtering through
Helped by higher prices at home and some improvements in China, Taiwan’s cement firms with plants in mainland China, including Taiwan Cement Corp, Asia Cement Corp and Chia Hsin Cement Corp, wil
Indonesia Jan cement consumption flat
Domestic cement consumption reached 2.24Mt in January, flat from a year ago, while exports fell 16.4 per cent year-on-year to 209,554t, the Indonesian Cement Association said. West Java, the biggest
Indian bagging expertise
The Rs 200-crore Karur KCP Packaging company is one of the leading producers of extensible sack kraft paper, polypropylene bags and paper bags from southern part of the country. A major part of the co
Lone Star distribution plant approved
After a five-year legal battle, Lone Star Industries was issued a permit Friday to build and operate a riverfront barge facility to load cement in Sayler Park. The Louisville District of the US Army C
More expansion planned by NCF Dhubai
National Cement Factory , an Abu Dhabi-based cement company which is linking up with Holcim to build a new grinding plant in Abu Dhabi is also studying the feasibility of setting up a new clinker fact
SCCC sees rise in local sales
Siam City Cement Plc (SCCC), Thailand’s country’s second largest cement maker, expects its domestic sales volume this year to rise six per cent to over eight million tonnes, thanks to growth mom
Cement profits rise in line with infrastructure growth
With a spurt in development of infrastructure projects, a majority of Indian cement firms clocked over 200 per cent increase in net profit for the third quarter of 2005-06, industry chamber Assocham s
Higher Colombian demand prompted massive prike hikes
The Colombian unit of Cemex will tell Colombia’s antitrust agency that it raised cement prices in December in tandem with higher demand, a company official said Thursday. "We decided to increas
Ukraine output static
The cement output of the 12 Ukrainian manufacturers, members of local cement producers’ association Ukrcement, totalled 430,800t in January 2006, up just 0.2 pct year-on-year. The Ukrcement ent
Indonesia’s January cement sales fall marginally
Indonesia’s domestic cement sales fell a marginal 0.1 per cent to 2.243Mt in January, data from the country’s cement association showed on Thursday. The decline follows slowing growth in
Peru Cement Sales climb in January
Peruvian domestic cement sales increased to 382,167t in January 2006, up 14.17 per cent year-on-year, data of the Peruvian association of cement producers Asocem showed on February 15, 2006. Peruvian
Tonasa looks at further expansion
The Indonesian cement company PT Semen Tonasa in South Sulawesi province is planning to build a new plant by the end of 2006, to anticipate cement shortages in 2008, general manager Sattar Taba said h
Siam Gypsum foresees slow growth in ’06
Siam Gypsum Industry (Saraburi), the country’s leading gypsum-board manufacturer, projected that the domestic consumption of gypsum products would decline further this year, in line with the slo
Government proposes transfer to alternative fuels
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine proposes to transfer cement production enterprises, consuming gas, to alternative kinds of fuel such as coal, peat, and sawdust. According to local correspondents