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New cement plant planned for Al-Bayda

03 May 2018, Published under Cement News

The city of Al-Bayda in Libya will be the location of a 4000tpd greenfield cement plant. Ali Hussein, the city mayor, has held a meeting with a number of German investors in the presence of several businessmen from the city to examine the possibility of establishing a cement factory within the municipality. The meeting agreed upon a plan to establish a 1.3Mta cement plant located south of the municipality, taking into consideration the compliance with the recognised environmental standards.

Duraton Cement distributes its first cement

27 February 2018, Published under Cement News

Asian Fine Cements Ltd has has launched its own flagship brand, Duraton Cement, having invested in a 1.5Mta greenfield cement plant in Rajpura, Punjab, India. Duraton Cement dispatched its first consignment of cement to the local Gurdwara in Rajpura and Mansa Devi Temple in Chandigarh. Following this, it will dispatch its cement to more than 100 dealers across Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Himachal, but the distribution will be expanded to cover nationwide. The cement plant features ...

Myanmar: Singapore investment fund to part-finance new 1.6Mta plant

09 March 2017, Published under Cement News

Singapore-based Credera has announced that it will invest US$20m in a stake in a new 5000tpd cement plant in Myanmar, Deal Street Asia reports. Credera's Myanmar Frontier Opportunities Fund will partner with a foreign cement firm – as yet unnamed – that will bring another US$30m to the deal. The remainder of the estimated US$200m required to build the plant will be raised as debt. According to Credera, Myanmar currently produces and demands around 4Mt of cement, but the firm expects co...

Hengya Cement gives green light to US$1bn Tanzania investment

01 March 2017, Published under Cement News

Hengya Cement, a subsidiary of China's Hengyuan International Engineering Group, has announced that it will build a new cement plant in Tanga on Tanzania's northeast coast, reports website China.org.cn. The plant's capacity has not been disclosed, but Hengya claims that it will be one of the largest in sub-Saharan Africa. The initial phase of the project will cost US$1bn, with a second phase to follow. "The Chinese investors' move is recommendable as it meant to meet country's cement d...

Pakistan: FWO seeks approval for new plant in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

24 February 2017, Published under Cement News

According to reports in the Daily Times, the Frontier Works Organization (FWO) is seeking approval from the Pakistani government to establish a new plant in the Haripur area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Details of the proposal are scant, but the FWO is understood to have met with representatives of the provincial government to discuss the plan. The latter told local media that they welcomed the proposed investment as part of the wider work on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. The FWO is ...

Pakistan: construction of US$245m Haripur cement plant gets go-ahead

25 January 2017, Published under Cement News

The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pervez Khattak, has approved plans to invest US$245m in the construction of a cement plant in Haripur, The Dawn reports. The moves comes as part of a wider package of measures intended to support projects relating to the China-Pakistan economic corridor. At this point, no further details concerning the size of the plant or the operator have been released. Other projects which received funding at the same time are to be offered to Chinese firms ...

Colombia: OHL Industrial to build new Ecocementos plant

18 January 2017, Published under Cement News

Spanish construction firm OHL Industrial is to build a new 1.35Mta cement plant in Sonson, Colombia, at a cost of EUR224.6m (US$240m), Construction Index reports. The integrated plant has been commissioned by Ecocementos, a joint venture between Colombia’s Corona and Spain’s Cementos Molins. Equipment for the facility will be supplied by FLSmidth .

Vietnam: order for FLSmidth

28 June 2016, Published under Cement News

Vietnamese cement producer Tan Thang Cement have awarded FLSmidth a contract for the supply of main equipment to a greenfield plant in the country. The Engineering and Procurement contract is valued at approximately DKK255m (US$37.9m). The new 5000tpd plant will be located in the Nghe An province, 300km south of Hanoi. The scope of supply includes all the main equipment, from raw mill grinding to clinker silo, as well as civil design, coal mill installation, training and commissioning.