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Canada: McInnis sign 140,000t distribution deal

04 January 2017, Published under Cement News

McInnis Cement announced it has signed an agreement with Gaspe Railway Corporation (Société du chemin de fer de la Gaspésie - SCFG) for the distribution of cement from New Richmond, Quebec, to various Canadian and US markets. The agreement relates to the transportation of approximately 140,000t of cement over a five-year period. The cement will be loaded into trucks at the mill site, transported to New Richmond and then transhipped into the cars via a measuring hopper that will be install...

Canada: McInnis Cement appoints new President and CEO

29 November 2016, Published under Cement News

Hervé Mallet jhas been appointed as the new President and CEO of McInnes Cement. Mr Mallet has considerable experience in sales, marketing and operations and is a graduate of the University of Wolverhampton and Brunel University, UK. Until recently Mr Mallet was executive vice-president of North America for Dynacast, a manufacturing company with 23 plants and 6000 employees worldwide. As such, he oversaw eight production facilities in North America, delivering performances two times g...

Canada: first shipment at McInnis Cement

25 November 2016, Published under Cement News

McInnis Cement has taken delivery of its first shipment of raw materials for its 2.5Mta Port-Daniel-Gascon plant. The vessel Algoma Mariner delivered to the Port-Daniel terminal, Canada, 19,000t of gypsum from National Gypsum at Halifax, Nova Scotia. The terminal is scheduled receive an additional four shipments of raw materials and fuel for the new cement plant by mid-December. Construction on McInnis Cement has been completed close to 75 per cent and is expected to deliver its first ...

Canada: McInnis Cement ready to start Spring deliveries

02 November 2016, Published under Cement News

McInnis Cement, in collaboration with Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and the other shareholders, announced that close to 75 per cent of the construction phase of the 2.5Mta cement greenfield plant has been completed and certain operations have begun. The heightened pace of construction on the company's various sites, starting with the Port-Daniel-Gascons industrial project, will allow the project to be completed in time for the first cement deliveries in the spring.The Sainte-C...

Canada: Quebec state investment fund to take controlling stake in McInnis

12 August 2016, Published under Cement News

The Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec has agreed to plans to inject an additional CAD250m (US$193m) into McInnis’s Port-Daniel integrated plant project under a deal which sees the state investment fund take a controlling interest in Beaudier Ciment, McInnis’s majority shareholder. Reuters quotes a spokesperson for the Caisse as stating that the project faced cost overruns of up to CAD500m (US$386m) and for this reason the fund had insisted on a "change of control and a change in mana...

McInnis Cement breaks ground on US cement terminal

10 August 2016, Published under Cement News

McInnis Cement officially broke ground at the new cement company's first US terminal in the Port of Providence. The overall cost of the project is expected to reach US$22m when completed by year-end. Construction will begin shortly on the existing ProvPort warehouse, which will be transformed into a world-class receiving and storing facility. McInnis Cement will also build a modern rail and truck station for loading purposes. “We are proud to commence construction of our first terminal in ...

Canada: McInnis Cement CEO quits after new plant cost overruns

05 August 2016, Published under Cement News

The chief executive officer of McInnis Cement, Christian Gagnon, has stepped down after it emerged that the cost of constructing the company’s new 2.2Mta Port-Daniel integrated plant had gone over budget by CAD450m (US$346m). McInnis’s investment was partly financed by government bodies, including Quebecois provincial authorities and also included a CAD360m (US$277m) loan from the National Bank of Canada. According to Radio-Canada, when news of the spiralling costs of the project first...

McInnis Cement signs workforce recruitment partnership

22 October 2015, Published under Cement News

McInnis Cement and Emplois Compétences have announced the signing of a partnership agreement for the recruitment and development of the local workforce for the cement plant at Port-Daniel-Gascons. Emplois Compétences opened its offices on 13 October in Port-Daniel-Gascons to support McInnis Cement in the recruitment of all employees. The positions to be filled are varied and include executives and professionals for technical, industrial and operational positions. “From our new office in Po...

Canada: McInnis seeks tax agreement for port facility

04 September 2015, Published under Cement News

McInnis Cement wants a tax stabilisation agreement for a US$40m distribution centre to be built at the Port of Providence. The City Council will consider a "bifurcated" tax stabilisation agreement for McInnis USA Inc, an offshoot of McInnis Cement headquartered in the Canadian Maritime province of New Brunswick, according to City Council President Luis Aponte. The cement company wants to divide a 12-year agreement into two parts - one pertaining to the real estate it wants to buy in the po...

McInnis Cement and ACF - St Elzear sign biomass agreement

29 June 2015, Published under Cement News

McInnis Cement and the Forestry Cooperative Association- St Elzear (ACF- St Elzear ) have signed a cooperative agreement to study the feasibility of using forest biomass as an auxiliary fuel for the cement plant under construction in Port-Daniel - Gascons . "We are pleased to establish this collaboration with the region's forest industry, in line with our GHG reduction plan," said Christian Gagnon , president and CEO of McInnis Cement. "Any operations that result from this agreeme...