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Making your own Lucky

Pakistan producer Lucky Cement has emerged as a leading exporter of cement to Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, contributing substantially to the country’s total exports to non-traditional mark...
Articles - 30 January 2012

Cement's best friend?

The aggregates industry is closely linked to the cement industry in several aspects. Not only are cement companies commonly diversified owners of downstream operations, but some of the aggregates...
Articles - 27 January 2012

FLSmidth: minerals division gains ground

FLSmidth reported on Tuesday that revenues from its minerals division over its cement business for the first time. CEO of the Danish engineering group, Jorgen Huno Rasmussen made the comments f...
News - 18 January 2012

South African cement sales rise 3.2% in 2011

South Africa closed 2011 with cement sales of 11.219Mt, up 3.2 per cent on the 10.87Mt recorded in 2010, latest data from the South Africa Cement and Concrete Institute showed. December sales w...
News - 11 January 2012

Kenya: new plants on recruitment drives

Cemtech, the Indian cement firm majority-owned by the Sanghi Group, has began recruiting staff in a signal that the company is about to give the long-delayed project a new push. The company has ...
News - 09 January 2012

Aditya Birla to bid for Lafarge’s South African cement business?

India’s Aditya Birla group which owns UltraTech Cement Ltd is considering buying Lafarge's cement business in South Africa, the Business Standard reported Monday, citing unnamed sources. Lafarge...
News - 09 January 2012

Shipunloading developments

The main quantities of cement are still transported by Handysize shipsof 25,000 to 40,000dwt andHandymax ships of 40,000 to 55,000dwt.Additionally there is a growing range of 5000 to 15,000dwt ship...
Articles PDF - 06 January 2012

Seeking prefection

During 1999 Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC), the largest cement company in South Africa with an installed clinker capacity of 4.7Mta, introduced a new controller at its Dwaalboom cement factory. The...
Articles PDF - 06 January 2012

Rising out of the desert

PLANT REPORT F ujairah Cement Industries was founded in 1982 when it had a cement capacity of just 520,000tpa. After a second major expansion project, in 1999 (see ICR Nov 2002), the plant rai...
Articles PDF - 06 January 2012

Product News Nov

ProductNewsProductNewsThrough more than 60 years of research, development and performance testing, Winchester has created the most complete, comprehensive and durable line of industrial equipme...
Articles PDF - 06 January 2012