Cement News tagged: International
Palestinian cement sales at 1.5Mt, new plant needed
According to the Palestine news agency, a recently released study by the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction in Palestine (PECDAR) estimated the total cement sales
India’s ACC says margins under pressure
Indian cement maker ACC Ltd sees increasing costs weighing on its margins in the second quarter to June
Hima to spend on alternative fuels
Suppliers of coffee, rice and timber husks to Hima Cement could earn sh1.5b annually, Bernard Osawa, the company’s manager for alternative fuel, has said. Osawa said at the launch of the Clean
Waste generator savings
China’s Runji Cement located in Anhui Province has announced that it broke ground on the construction of a waste heat-fueled electric generator on May 16, 2008. Currently, electricity represents 23%
Railton’s cement works: asbestos survey
The cement works at Railton in Tasmania’s north west is to be the subject of an asbestos survey and research program. From the 1940s to the late 80s, Goliath Cement was Australia’s third l
China cement price apparently stable
Market monitoring by the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) shows that China’s cement market has operated steadily, with comparatively inert prices. Monitoring shows that cement price averaged 316 yua
PPC to raise cement prices again in July
Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC), said yesterday it would hike the price of the building material for the second time this year as manufacturers feel the squeeze of higher input costs. PPC, which has al
ACC expansion on track
ACC is planning to expand its cement capacity from 22.4Mt to 30.4Mt by 2010. The company expects to commission its captive power plant of 30mW at Bargarh in 2009 and a plant of 25mW at Chanda in 2010.
Power plants see the benefits of cement
By setting up cement projects to make use of the fly ash generated from their power plants, Indian utilities such as NTPC Ltd and Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group’s Reliance Power Ltd (RPL) will a
ACC announces future price rise
India’s ACC group, India’s largest cement manufacturer said it will increase the prices of cement after three month if the market forces and the government allow to do so. "Showing ou
East Timor plant revamp possible - revised
British based financing company, Delamore Owl & Group said it is ready to provide US$28 million in credit to revitalize a small debt ridden cement maker in Indonesia. Delamore also wants to acquire a
Prosperity sets sights on HK listing
Registered on the UK AIM listings, with its shares having languished over the past 12 months, Prosperity’s owners are now about to jump aboard the HK bandwagon and aim for a separate listing the
South African football
Gearing up for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, PPC has supplied more than 12,000 tonnes of PPC CEM 1 42.5N cement to WG Wearne Ltd for the upgrade of the FNB stadium in Nasrec. WG Wearne Ltd, contracted to
New plant for Belarus
The Irani company Azarab has reportedly won tender for exploitation of Padkamenne (the Homel region) limestone deposits
Turkey’s Marmara leadership
According to data from the Turkish Cement Manufacturers’ Association (TÇMB), cement facilities in the Marmara region sold a total of
Lebanese cement consumption rises
A recently released report by the Lebanese AUDI Bank, shows that the amount of the total cement deliveries in Lebanon had increased to 511,981t in the first two months of 2008, up from 466,346 tons