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Star Cement exports clinker to Bangladesh via river route

12 August 2013, Published under Cement News

India-based Star Cement said it has dispatched its first barge of clinker to Bangladesh via river. The company is aiming to export over 50,000t of clinker to Bangladesh every month using the riverine route, the Meghalaya Times reported its President (Sales & Marketing), Jyoti Swaroop Agarwal, as saying. In a pilot project Star Cement had started clinker export to Bangladesh last year by road and now it has started to export by river. "We believe that this mode of logistics will definitely b...

FLSmidth secures Kalina power plant contract in UAE

08 June 2012, Published under Cement News

The Directors of Wasabi Energy have announced that the company's Kalina Cycle licensee, FLSmidth has secured a contract to install its second Kalina Cycle power plant utilising waste heat from a major cement plant. The new contract is for a 4.75 MWe Kalina Cycle power plant which will be installed by Q2 CY2013 at Star Cement's cement plant in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. ??Star Cement Co. LLC was acquired in 2010 by UltraTech Cement which is part of the Aditya Birla Group. Was...

UltraTech Cement to take control of Star Cement?

07 February 2012, Published under Cement News

UltraTech Cement is looking to purchase its partner’s stake in Star Cement to take full control of the Dubai-based cement producer, sources familiar with the deal have said, adding to the rumour mill that other UAE producers are ripe acquistion targets. "The group has an option to purchase the local partner's stake when they bought the majority control company from Dubai-based ETA Star Group," the Financial Express quoted a source as saying. However, OP Puranmalka, director of UltraTech,...