Cement News tagged under: Sinoma
Ugandan government supports new cement plant01 August 2017, Published under Cement NewsChina National Materials Group (Sinoma) is seeking to invest UGX1.8tr (USD500m) in a new cement factory to be located at Mbale Industrial Park in eastern Uganda, 225km from Kampala. Details of the new plant have not been released and final approval will depend on the company securing the limestone deposit to supply the factory. A Ugandan government delegation visited Beijing in July and confirmed its support for the project. “We will provide land, licence for limestone and other incen... |
Sinoma anticipates substantial rise in interim net profit05 July 2017, Published under Cement NewsChina National Materials Company (Sinoma) said it expects the net profit attributable to the shareholders of the parent company for the six months ended 30 June 2017 to record a substantial increase as compared to the same period of last year. Such expected growth is mainly attributable to the increase in the prices and sales volume of cement. Its interim results announcement is expected to be published before the end of August, ET News reports. |
Zimbabwe: President Mugabe opens PPC cement grinding plant in Harare30 March 2017, Published under Cement NewsPPC's US$85m cement 0.7Mta grinding plant at Msasa, Harare, has been officially opened by President Robert Mugabe. The plant is PPC’s third production site in the country. The facility features a cement ball mill with dynamic separator and road and rail off-loading facilities. This is in positioning PPC to meet local demand, as well as boost the country’s ability to export to the region. The PPC's collective capacity now stands at 1.4Mta, allowing the firm to export further to its neig... |
Pakistan: Bestway Cement awards Sinoma brownfield project02 March 2017, Published under Cement NewsBestway Cement Ltd informed the Pakistan Stock Exchange that it will set up a brownfield cement plant with a capacity of 6000tpd clinker at its Farooqia site in District Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in northern Pakistan. According to Sehar Hussain, secretary and general counsel of the company, Bestway Cement signed an agreement with Sinoma International Engineering Co Ltd on 1 March 2017. According to the APCMA, Bestway Cement’s four plants have a combined capacity of 7.9Mta. |
Pakistan: Pioneer Cement inks agreements with Sinoma-Chengdu09 February 2017, Published under Cement NewsPioneer Cement Ltd (PIOC) informed Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) that it has signed a contract with Sinoma-Chengdu of China for procurement of its new cement works, a 12MW waste heat recovery power unit and a 24MW coal-fired power plant. PIOC has cement production capacity of over 2Mta but has operated at a meager 60 per cent utilisation level (FY12-FY16), despite local industry demand witnessing robust growth, says a local research house. This has been a result of lower crushing capacit... |
Algeria: New integrated plant to produce oil well cement02 November 2016, Published under Cement NewsAlgeria's Minister of Industry and Mines, Abdessalem Bouchouareb, has stated that a planned 1.5Mta integrated plant being built by STG Engineering and Real Estate Development will be operational by 1Q17, Radio Algérienne reports. As originally announced, the plant had been scheduled to begin production in 2016, but construction on the project did not begin until February of this year. Built at a cost of DZD21bn (US$190m) in Timokten commune in the south's Adrar province, the plant will... |
China: Gansu Qilianshan Cement 9M16 net profit up 223%24 October 2016, Published under Cement NewsGansu Qilianshan Cement Group Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Sinoma, reported a net profit hike of 223.3 per cent YoY to CNY204m for the first nine months of 2016. |
China National Building Materials (CNBM)27 September 2016, Published under Cement NewsChina National Building Materials (CNBM) group’s merger with China National Materials (Sinoma) group has been approved. An official merger ceremony was held in Beijing at the end of last month. According to Cao Jianglin, president of CNBM, the new company will have total assets of about CNY550bn (US$83.4bn) with annual revenue of approximately CNY300bn and 250,000 employees. Despite CNBM seeing revenue fall by nine per cent YoY in the January-June period this year, observers say that Augu... |
Sinoma sells Midong Tianshan and Fukang Tianshan stakes23 September 2016, Published under Cement NewsChina National Materials Company (Sinoma) said its subsidiary Xinjiang Tianshan Cement recently carried out an equity transfer framework agreement. A 64.56 per cent stake in Xinjiang Midong Tianshan Cement and the entire equity interest in Xinjiang Fukang Tianshan Cement, both held by Tianshan Cement, as well as the 19.39 per cent stake in Midong Tianshan held by Xinjiang Tunhe Cement are to be under consideration for acquisition with Zhongtai Chemical. Sinoma added the equity transfer ... |
New 1.5Mta cement plant for Mali19 September 2016, Published under Cement NewsMali's government and Gaia Equity Ltd have signed on 16 September a memorandum of understanding and an establishment agreement for the construction of a 1.5Mta cement plant in the country. The CFA200bn (US$330m) works will be built Guimbané, Diéma, in the Kayes region. The new plant is part of the government’s efforts to establish an industrial base in the country, according to the Minister of Industrial Development, Mohamed Aly Ag Ibrahim. “… it is a realisation of part of the vision of t... |