Cement News tagged under: Japan
Mitsubishi UBE Cement Corp to collaborate with Malaysia on CCS project17 October 2024, Published under Cement NewsMitsubishi UBE Cement Corp (MUCC) – in collaboration with The Kansai Electric Power Co Inc, Kyushu Electric Power Co Inc, Cosmo Oil Co Ltd, The Chugoku Electric Power Co Inc, Electric Power Development Co Ltd Mitsui & Co Ltd and Resonac Corp – was commissioned by the Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) to conduct a survey of the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project for the Southern Offshore Malay Peninsula in FY24 under the terms of the "Engineering Design Work f... |
Taiheiyo Cement Corporation’s Carbofix blocks adopted for public works05 September 2024, Published under Cement NewsRoadway interlocking concrete blocks and property boundary concrete blocks, both made from Taiheiyo Cement Group ’s CARBOFIX ® cement, have been adopted for a municipal public works project of Fukaya City, Saitama, Japan. This marks the first time that a poured-in concrete product made of CARBOFIX cement has been put in practical use. The CARBOFIX cement has reduced the amount of CO 2 emissions from this project by about 330kg compared to using ordinary cement. The roadway interlock... |
Seven companies to work on Japanese advanced CCS projects04 September 2024, Published under Cement NewsTaiheiyo Cement Corp , ITOCHU Corp, Nippon Steel Corp, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, INPEX Corp, Taisei Corp and ITOCHU Oil Exploration Co Ltd were selected by the Japan Organisation for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) to conduct engineering design work for Japanese advanced CCS projects. The Japanese government has chosen CCS as an important means for decarbonisation that must be fully harnessed, especially in hard-to-abate industries such as cement if Japan is to achieve the tw... |
Sumitomo Osaka Cement posts 1QFY24-25 results09 August 2024, Published under Cement NewsSumitomo Osaka Cement has shared consolidated financial results for the first quarter of the FY24-25. The company reported a revenue of JPY53.23bn (US$354.8m) for the quarter ended 30 June 2024, representing a 0.9 per cent increase from the JPY52.77bn reported in the same period a year previous. Although sales volume of cement was down compared to the 1QFY23-24, the company has raised domestic sale prices in a response to rising costs. Operating profit surged from JPY127m in ... |
Taiheiyo Cement's 1Q net profit jumps to JPY13.53bn08 August 2024, Published under Cement NewsJapan-based Taiheiyo Cement Corp reported a 7.9 per cent increase in revenues to JPY208.85bn (US$1.43bn) in the quarter ending 30 June (1QFY24-25) from JPY193.54bn in the year-ago period. The company's operating profit improved 5.9-fold to JPY11.05bn in the 1QFY24-25 from JPY1.86bn in the 1QFY23-24. Pretax profit increased four-fold YoY to JPY11.76bn from JPY2.98bn in the equivalent period of the previous year. Net profit surged from JPY366m in the 1QFY23-24 to JPY13.53bn in the 1QFY24-... |
Disappointing trend continues in Japan08 March 2024, Published under Cement NewsJapan cement sales shrank 5.5 per cent YoY in the first month of 2024, marking a continuing trend. Sales were 2.389Mt in January, down from 2.527Mt a year earlier, according to the Japan Cement Association (JCA). Since the mid-2010s sales have been in steady decline and contracted a further 5.6 per cent in 2023 to 35.377Mt from 37.488 in 2022. Lacklustre public sector and civil engineering works, which account for 47 per cent of construction activity, are dragging on demand. The resumption o... |
Tokuyama cement selects ABB Ability™ Expert optimizer25 August 2023, Published under Cement NewsABB has delivered the advanced process control solution ABB Ability™ Expert Optimizer system to control, stabilise and optimise industrial processes at the Tokuyama Nanyo cement plant in Japan. The commissioning of ABB Ability™ Expert Optimizer enables Tokuyama to reduce about three per cent of thermal energy consumption in the kiln as well as maintain operational quality at the Nanyo plant, one of the largest single factories in Japan, says ABB. Tokuyama Cement manufacture... |
Taiheiyo to build new terminal in Philippines22 August 2023, Published under Cement NewsJapan-based Taiheiyo Cement Corp (TCC) will build a new cement terminal in Calaca, Batangas, Philippines, to enable the company to serve the Luzon market from its pant in San Fernando, Cebu. Taiheiyo Cement Philippines Inc (TCPI) will build and operate the planned hub to distribute its Grand-branded cement products, according to TCC President and Representative Director, Masafumi Fushihara. The 0.7Mta project is the next step in serving a market that TCPI has estimated to have increase... |
Taiheiyo Cement joins Japanese CCS value chain study03 August 2023, Published under Cement NewsTaiheiyo Cement Corp has joined six other companies in a feasibility study into the use of advanced carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Japan. The study forms part of Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s goal to harness CCS, particularly in hard-to-abate industries, to help reach the government’s targets of a 46 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (compared to FY13) by FY30, and carbon neutrality by 2050. The study was initially launched in January this year wit... |
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Osaka Gas sign CCUS value chain feasibility study03 April 2023, Published under Cement NewsMitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) and Osaka Gas Co Ltd have signed an agreement for a feasibility study on a project to develop a CO 2 value chain for carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), including transporting CO 2 captured in Japan to overseas, utilising it to produce e-methane, a synthetic gas produced through methanation, and storing it underground. The project aims to establish an efficient CO 2 value chain, leveraging Osaka Gas’s know-how on e-metha... |