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Fons Technology International replaces Fabrika Cementa Lukavac's cooler

26 June 2017, Published under Cement News

Fons Technology International (FTI) has replaced the existing clinker cooler of Fabrika Cementa Lukavac (FCL) located in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The new clinker cooler is designed for 2100tpd and following a successful erection and commissioning phase by FTI, the clinker cooler has already achieved the process targets with a very smooth mechanical operation, reports FTI. The tailor-made engineering by FTI enabled the clinker cooler replacement to be carried out with reduced initial in...

Cemex announces divestment of operations in Austria, Hungary and Croatia

12 August 2015, Published under Cement News

Cemex announced today that it has signed an agreement for the sale of its operations in Austria and Hungary to the Rohrdorfer Group for approximately EUR160.1m. The Austrian operations consist of 24 aggregate quarries (approximately 6.47Mt of aggregates sold in 2014) and 34 ready-mix plants (approximately 1.60Mm 3 of ready-mix sold in 2014). Cemex’s operations in Austria had net sales of approximately US$241m in 2014. The Hungarian operations being divested consist of five aggregate qua...

Bosnia: TCK to distribute EUR8.3m as dividend

22 May 2015, Published under Cement News

Bosnia-based Tvornica Cementa Kakanj (TCK) said its shareholders have approved distributing BAM16.2m (EUR8.3m) as dividend. The HeidelbergCement group company said in a statement issued after a shareholders meeting on Tuesday that is produced 420,000t of cement in 2014, down 11.8 per cent from 476,000t a year earlier. TCK posted a consolidated net profit of BAM11m on net sales revenues of BAM77.6m in 2014. In March, TCK director Branimir Muidza told SeeNews in an interview cement output ...

Bosnia: TCK expects flat output

10 March 2015, Published under Cement News

Bosnia's Tvornica Cementa Kakanj (TCK), part of the HeidelbergCement Group, sees its cement output flat this year after producing 420,000t in 2014, the company's director said. “Our cement production fell by around 10 per cent in 2014, which was probably the most difficult year since the war for the Bosnian economy and its citizens as the country went through political turmoil in February followed by record floods in May and in August and elections in October,” Branimir Muidza told SeeNews ...

Tvornica Cementa Kakanj environmental upgrade investment

14 July 2014, Published under Cement News

Bosnia-based producer Tvornica Cementa Kakanj plans to invest BAM20m (EUR10.225m) to upgrade its facilities and improve its environmental performance. The investment covers the period from 2013 to 2018. This year alone, Tvornica Cementa Kakanj (TCK) plans to invest BAM5m mainly on modernising its cement mills and dust collection system, news portal Indikator.ba said, quoting the company’s notice sent to the Tuzla Canton. The country's leading cement producer is majority-owned by Dutch-b...

Tvornica Cementa Kakanj net profit plummets, Bosnia-Herzegovina

03 May 2013, Published under Cement News

The net profit of Tvornica Cementa Kakanj, part of the HeidelbergCement group, fell by almost half to  BAM9.4m (EUR4.8m) from BAM17.2m a year earlier. Operating income fell to BAM66.5m in 2012 from BAM75.3m a year earlier while operating costs rose to BAM57.1m from BAM56.9m, the company said in a financial statement. At present, the 0.8Mta integrated works at Kankanj plant runs at about 60 per cent of its capacity. It is 45.58 per cent owned by HeidelbergCement. Following a 11.3 per ce...

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Turkey's GIMAS shows desire to construct Gacko cement plant

12 February 2013, Published under Cement News

Representatives of 'GIMAS' and the mayor of municipality Gacko recently held a meeting with representatives of Enel, Alfa Motor and Dr Boško Vukovic regarding the possibility of building a cement factory in the region. In addition to large reserves of coal and energy production, the Gacko municipality also has significant reserves of limestone, clay and marl, which could serve as the basic raw material for cement production. Taking in account that the area does not currently produce cem...