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Lucky Cement joint venture prepares to break ground on new DR Congo plant

30 May 2013, Published under Cement News

Nyumba Ya Akiba (NYA), a joint venture between Pakistan-based Lucky Cement and the Rawji Group of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is set to break ground on a new 1.2Mta integrated works at the end of next month. The new facility, to be situated 250km from the DR Congo capital on the main Kinshasa-Matadi Highway, will host a groundbreaking ceremony on 30 June 2013, a Lucky Cement spokesperson told CemNet News. NYA has already finalised its plant and machinery purchase contract with FLSmid...

PPC Zimbabwe to build new cement plant

27 February 2013, Published under Cement News

A new US$200m cement plant is to be built by Portland Holdings Ltd (PHL), the Zimbabwe subsidiary of South Africa's PPC, to service the Harare and central Mozambique markets. The new plant will have a cement capacity of about 1Mta and will coincide with the construction of a separate grinding facility in the neighbouring territory of Tete in Mozambique. The plans could significantly boost output and market share for PPC Zimbabwe which currently dominates the domestic market with Lafarge 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...

Nigeria's Flour Mills to borrow to double cement capacity

11 February 2013, Published under Cement News

Flour Mills of Nigeria plans to borrow between US$400m-500m to construct a new cement plant which will double its existing 2.5Mta capacity, its chief finance officer said. Jacques Vauthier told Reuters the conglomerate had appointed financial advisers and banks to raise a term loan from the local market for the construction of the plant. He said the details of the loan were still being finalised. The new cement plant will be completed by 1Q16, Vauthier said. Nigeria's biggest cement firm ...

Kenya: KES12bn Pokot cement factory to be completed next year

10 January 2013, Published under Cement News

Investors in the KES12bn cement factory in Pokot have pledged to complete the project next year after revising its implementation plan. The project was initially scheduled to end this year. CEO of the Cemtech Sanghi Group, Rajesh Kumar Rawal, has dispelled fears that the project may not take off. "Its a complex project but we are committed to completing it within the next 15 months so that it is commissioned," he told local newspaper, the Star. "We are on course to implement it because ...

Financing concluded for Norm’s Azerbaijan plant

24 December 2012, Published under Cement News

A financing agreement was signed in Baku on 21 December by the General Director of Norm LLC, Hassan Yalchinkaya, and the Chairman of Pasha Bank, Farid Akhundov, paving the way for the supply of equipment from Germany for the new 5000tpd clinker plant. Under the agreement, the construction of Gyzyldash Cement by Norm LLC is guaranteed by Pasha Bank, while a USD22.3m long-term loan with a 7-year term has been arranged through German bank Commerzbank and export insurance agency Euler Hermes, ...

Mali: new integrated Astro Cement plant to produce first cement

06 December 2012, Published under Cement News

The latest addition to the cement industry of Mali, the Astro cement works located at Gangoterie is expected to be fully up-and-running on 21 December. The project, owned by Diamond Cement Mali (DCM), has a 1Mta cement capacity with a 0.5Mta clinkerisation unit installed at the village of Gangoterie, Bafoulabé, while grinding will take place at Ko-Gare in Kati, Koulikoro. The grinding facility has been operational since 8 June, when the first bag of cement with delivered clinker was produ...

Secil plans to build second cement plant in Angola

06 December 2012, Published under Cement News

Portuguese group Secil plans to build a second cement plant in Angola in order to increase production from 280,000tpa to 1.8 Mta, the managing director of Secil Lobito, Augusto Miragaia, said in Lobito. The managing director said that the current needs of the Angolan market, which stand at between 4Mta and 5Mta of cement, justify construction of another plant, which is a project that the company has had in mind for a few years. Augusto Miragaia also told Portuguese news agency Lusa that...

Uganda: new plant to lower cement prices

06 December 2012, Published under Cement News

Kuwaiti-based, Dao Group plans to put up a third cement factory in Uganda to compete with Hima Cement in Kasese district and Tororo Cement in Tororo district. The company has branches in Iraq, Pakistan and the Middle East, mainly dealing in oil and gas, power generation and transmission as well as construction. The entry of a third player will come at a time when a 50kg bag of cement costs UGX32,000 (US$11.87), up from UGX27,000 (US$10) two years ago. Mohammad Aoun, the CEO of Dao Africa ...

Gebr Pfeiffer to supply VRM to Scantogo

26 November 2012, Published under Cement News

Sinoma-owned Chengdu Design & Research Institute of Building Materials Industry Co Ltd, the general contractor for Scantogo's new 5000tpd cement production line in Togo, has awarded Gebr Pfeiffer SE the contract for an MPS 5000 B vertical roller mill for raw material grinding. The new MPS raw mill for the HeidelbergCement-owned subsidiary will have a rated capacity of 410tph and has been designed to process raw material with a particularly-high moisture content of 15%. Apart from the s...